Time banking is an alternative currency system that uses units of time as currency. This group is dedicated to Drupal-based time banking software, including Community Weaver and the Time Machine installation profile, and to discussing practices for using Drupal to manage time dollars or time credits.
Building Human Resource Development functionality into timebank.
I am admin of the Occupy Wall Street Timebank and have wanted to use it for a project management experiment - applying HRD training and development for participating members, specifically to help Occupiers establish themselves through their timebank work profiles to be eligible for available housing.
Since Human Resource Development (HRD) is a system of scaled measurements - helping people and organizations to get from where they are to where they want to be, I wonder if how complex it would be to build in some of this functionality to a Community Weaver Timebank system.
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Downtown LA Drupal Meetup on February 21, 2012 at Droplabs: Banking on Drupal at the Echo Park Time Bank
| Video: Banking on Drupal at the Echo Park Time Bank: http://blip.tv/ladrupal/episode/5976671 |
The next Downtown LA Drupal meetup is on February 21, 2012 and will be at Droplabs, a Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. Created by LA Drupal members for the LA Drupal community, Droplabs is the host of LA Drupal's monthly Downtown LA meetup, the weekly Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and special events like LA Drupal's job fairs.
LA Drupal meetups follow a basic format and start off with Drupal news and announcements, local job announcements, raffle prizes and full-length presentations. As always, we'll also have community Q&A, during which time anyone in attendance can ask questions, divine answers from the crowd and give brief, 5-10 minute-long presentations known as lightning talks.
For any changes to our agenda, stay tuned to this meetup announcement or click the Sign up button below (or both!) to be notified when the agenda has been updated.
Light food and refreshments will be served throughout the evening courtesy of our food and drink sponsor, Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles.
We'll finish off the night with more networking and a Drupal After Dark at 9:30pm.
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Tools to Help Coordinate and Fund Community Initiatives: The Snowball Code Sprint
Thanks to the leadership of Allie Micka and R.J. Steinert, the Snowball initiative to provide tools for coordinating and funding Drupal initiatives is coming to the Boston area this long weekend for its first code sprint.
We will focus on building a working alpha so we have something real to share for feedback, to refine, and to build process, message, and governance around.
We'll be working on Friday November 11th, Saturday the 12th, and Sunday the 13th starting at 10am on Friday and no later than that on the weekend days in Somerville, Massachusetts.
If you can dive into helping build this, contact rjstatic or contact mlncn for directions to the venue.
Read moreDrupal projects and websites for Time Banks
Last updated by christefano on Sat, 2011-10-15 18:50
Projects on Drupal.org
Hours
http://drupal.org/project/hours
Mutual Credit (Community Accounting)
http://drupal.org/project/mutual_credit
User Points
http://drupal.org/project/userpoints
Websites
Community Weaver
http://community.timebanks.org
Community Weaver 2.0 is available
Time Banks USA has started rolling out Community Weaver 2.0 a few days ago. They're in the process of migrating 50 local time banking websites at a time to Drupal!
http://community.timebanks.org
They have a FAQ here:
http://timebanks.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Community-Weaver-2.0.pdf
Here's a video showing the new features in 2.0:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0mJt8ADyXc
Read moreNew articles from the New York Times
The New York Times just ran 2 interesting articles on time banking a few days ago. They appeared in their regular Friday's Fixes column and focus on how health care providers are using time banking:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/where-all-work-is-create...
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/the-payoffs-of-time-banks/
Drupal for resilient communities
There is a clear, clear need for a certain kind of community web application, but so far, it hasn't been well articulated. Because the communities that need it aren't investing in web technologies, for various reason, the commercial sphere isn't addressing this need at all.
The needs this group is trying to address are in no way specific to transition towns.
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Barn Raising - Time Banking in LA?
Hi Everyone,
This is something I've wanted to do with Drupal for years, and I'd like to see how the community feels about it.
Have you ever had an idea for a project, but didn't have the hours to really get it started? Do you know of a good cause that could use a good website? Have you ever made some unfortunate decisions and needed to get your ass pulled out of the fire?
Have a barn raising! Another way of thinking of this is time-banking. Invite the community, be prepared to feed those who show up, perhaps plan something nice for the evening, and get the help you need.
Read moreDrupal - Time Bank Package and modules
Time Bank is an all-embracing and flexible package which includes a mutual credit engine, transaction forms and displays, including several views and blocks. If you viewed weaver-demo it is pretty much the exact functionality
Read moreComplementary Currencies
Greetings,
I want to bring to your attention the Complementary Currencies module for Drupal, and my organisation, Community Forge which is hosting 12 sites for CC communities, and growing.
If this group wants to offer transition initiatives web sites based on a design, then I have experience of building and hosting such a service. You can have the installation profile for the demo site, if you want it as a starting point.
