Downloadable code for Beaverteams - a website for defining and managing local projects at the grassroots level
This is the downloadable beta version of the website "Beaverteams" which is a project and pioneer platform meant to facilitate team like collaboration among different individuals in the same locality, to define and complete projects.
Its code is hereby released as an open source initiative.
Thus there will be no need to depend on the government if people can govern themselves , assemble friends to solve their own problems...
I finished overseeing the coding and this is a beta version, still considerably buggy but the layout is well defined.
Anyone who knows PHP can download and check out the code by mounting the website on their server.
It also has an in-built Gesellian type currency.
A few screenshots from the wireframe to give you an idea of what this website is about - as you can see, it is important to make such a website to give power to the free people of earth. Thought, someone can develop on the start I made ...
I'm not really a programmer, and my hands are full with other projects, so I couldn't be doing it myself.
It can also be called a "General Purpose platform" -- understand it by a simple comparison chart -
Examples of Use Cases for the Beaverteams GPP:
Newbies: Someone new in town, who just wants to check out the human map to know who’s around
Children: Learn, define, and implement projects with like-minded friends or students and teachers
Professors: Define research areas, describe projects in detail, rope in interested students, act as consultants
Companies: Get things done at a fraction of the typical cost
Musicians and other collaborative artists: Find other skilled musicians, find support for film making etc.
Sportsmen: Organize matches, assign responsibilities (e.g.: who’ll bring drinks, who’ll hire ground, floodlights etc.)
Event planners: Organize events and invite many people
NGOs: Rally people for good causes (like planting a thousand trees this weekend)
Experts, doers, and vendors: Sell your knowledge, manpower, and wares at fair free market rates
Businessmen seeking temporary business partners (doers, advisors, interns etc.) at cheap rates to grow their business
Strangers and Lonely hearts: Find people using the human map (arrangements are in place to prevent stalking)
People who live in communes and need a virtual currency to regulate their internal economic activities
People of PIGS countries (and places like Venezuela)
The underemployed & Unemployed: Can use the internal currency system to transact goods and services.
What… egalitarian internal currency system?
Yes!
Beaverteams give the choice for users to use either local currency (government fiat) or an egalitarian internal currency, the GP, or Gesellian Pound (inspired by the theories of Silvio Gesell).
I’m not saying, “Use the GP because it’s egalitarian” — but I surely say don’t interrupt the experiment — let the people decide which mode of payment to use, which is better. If more people use local (fiat) currency, then so be it, it must be better on the whole. If they use more GPs (because of the many advantages the GP brings to the table), so be it, GPs must be better on the whole.
Well, this economic system is much to talk of ....
Why one shouldn't worry about GPs losing currency:
The GP system may not be perfect as of now, but that should not discourage you from joining and trying it out. Any problems will be rectified through user feedback and further development of the analysis. At least the GP monetary infrastructure provides a start, those who are ill-treated by capitalism (workers, farmers, and whoever does the actual work and is duly insulted by the system) — should lead the way in adopting this new global currency, especially given that they won’t lose anything due to the provision of a safety net.
The important thing to take away is that every user who registers in the Beaverteams database, gets free money — 200 GPs — to kick-start his economic activities!
As for free land, which is another requirement of a Gesellian order and can help kick-start local GP-based economies, it’s not so easy for me to arrange, but surely you can find some land ...
Wrestle the government, in case it tries to restrict you, for your right to a bit of land. The earth belongs to earthlings, not barrow wights with UFOs who double up as the peasant zamindars of the earth defying arrest as per Proudhon's maxim "property is theft".
If you think on it, you’ll realize that Beaverteams works best when there are (a lot of) people nearby. For a start, these people could be your friends living nearby…
In being a barter/exchange value measurement unit — the Gesellian Pound, the new, optional virtual currency at the heart of Beaverteams, is SAFE
As people do for each other without paying each other in anything but GPs (which can be called “free money”) — the GP ecosystem may, in the short run, resemble a gift economy, but it is not actually so.
The GP is a yardstick by which a giver (of goods and services) can measure how much he has given to his fellow man.
It is expected, at the same time, for this fellow man to be returning such favors, either directly or indirectly, as and when he can, to the general user base. This logic is ingrained in the GP, because of such conditions:
As the GP is a barter/exchange value measurement unit as much as it is a currency, and as “who paid who?” is on record — in the unlikely case that the GP system is unable to continue – there is, still, no need to worry due to the GP’s status as an exchange value measurement unit. That is to say, it’s understood (by all who use GPs), that, in case of system inviability, all outstanding GP debts will be calculated, as shown below, and repaid in cash or kind.
People holding GPs (“receivers”) can expect to be reimbursed by those (“takers”) who took from them goods and services in exchange for GPs. In case of system dissolution, takers are legally bound to pay to receivers the equivalent of as many GPs as were exchanged — in goods, services, or pre-existing local fiat currencies. Though of course, it may take a while to recover the ‘GP debts’.
Thus in the unlikely event of a “system failure”, one can think of all preceding transactions (which are recorded in the user’s accounts page) as amounting to loans given by the GP receivers (givers of goods and services), who can now recover the ‘GP debts’ — which are calculated as follows:
If user X (taker) uses 10 GPs (say) to pay user Y (receiver), in that case, while Y does get the benefit of 10 GPs moved into his account, he also gets a safety net — an implicit contract is created, which reads:
in case the GP system ceases to exist or work out well (that can be defined as: widely gain currency), X promises to pay Y the equivalent of 10 GPs in goods, services, or pre-existing local fiat currencies”.
Due to the presence of this contract, people may use GPs without worry…
How is the GP debt calculated in the light of how its value changes with time? In the early days, 1 GP roughly equals in value one big burger (or more generally “an affordably-priced meal at a decent place”), which currently costs around $5. As the GP “gains currency”, and as the upward or downward movement of its value gets underway, let’s say 1 GP can buy n number of such meals (n can be less or more than 1 — depending on what the “free market” decides).
In the unlikely event of failure of the GP ecosystem, total outstanding GP debt (in dollars) will be calculated and repaid.
All debts repaid by this rule, one won’t lose a thing even if he is left holding many GPs if the GP ecosystem becomes unviable.
With any luck, however, it will not crash because it is more of a virtual currency, for measurement of exchange... and we’ll never have to do these foreboding calculations!
I’m not saying, “Use the GP because it’s egalitarian” — but I surely say don’t interrupt the experiment — let the people decide which mode of payment to use, which is better. If more people use local (fiat) currency, then so be it, it must be better on the whole. If they use more GPs (because of the many advantages the GP brings to the table), so be it, GPs must be better on the whole.
Is it needed? Well, it always was. The reverse side of the Worgl Bills were printed with the following declaration:
“To all whom it may concern!
Sluggishly circulating money has provoked an unprecedented trade depression and plunged millions into utter misery. Economically considered, the destruction of the world has started. – It is time, through determined and intelligent action, to endeavour to arrest the downward plunge of the trade machine and thereby to save mankind from fratricidal wars, chaos, and dissolution. Human beings live by exchanging their services. Sluggish circulation has largely stopped this exchange and thrown millions of willing workers out of employment. – We must therefore revive this exchange of services and by its means bring the unemployed back to the ranks of the producers. Such is the object of the labour certificate [money] issued by the market town of Wörgl: it softens sufferings dread; it offers work and bread.”
Its code is hereby released as an open source initiative.
Thus there will be no need to depend on the government if people can govern themselves , assemble friends to solve their own problems...
I finished overseeing the coding and this is a beta version, still considerably buggy but the layout is well defined.
Anyone who knows PHP can download and check out the code by mounting the website on their server.
It also has an in-built Gesellian type currency.
A few screenshots from the wireframe to give you an idea of what this website is about - as you can see, it is important to make such a website to give power to the free people of earth. Thought, someone can develop on the start I made ...
I'm not really a programmer, and my hands are full with other projects, so I couldn't be doing it myself.
It can also be called a "General Purpose platform" -- understand it by a simple comparison chart -
Examples of Use Cases for the Beaverteams GPP:
Newbies: Someone new in town, who just wants to check out the human map to know who’s around
Children: Learn, define, and implement projects with like-minded friends or students and teachers
Professors: Define research areas, describe projects in detail, rope in interested students, act as consultants
Companies: Get things done at a fraction of the typical cost
Musicians and other collaborative artists: Find other skilled musicians, find support for film making etc.
Sportsmen: Organize matches, assign responsibilities (e.g.: who’ll bring drinks, who’ll hire ground, floodlights etc.)
Event planners: Organize events and invite many people
NGOs: Rally people for good causes (like planting a thousand trees this weekend)
Experts, doers, and vendors: Sell your knowledge, manpower, and wares at fair free market rates
Businessmen seeking temporary business partners (doers, advisors, interns etc.) at cheap rates to grow their business
Strangers and Lonely hearts: Find people using the human map (arrangements are in place to prevent stalking)
People who live in communes and need a virtual currency to regulate their internal economic activities
People of PIGS countries (and places like Venezuela)
The underemployed & Unemployed: Can use the internal currency system to transact goods and services.
What… egalitarian internal currency system?
Yes!
Beaverteams give the choice for users to use either local currency (government fiat) or an egalitarian internal currency, the GP, or Gesellian Pound (inspired by the theories of Silvio Gesell).
I’m not saying, “Use the GP because it’s egalitarian” — but I surely say don’t interrupt the experiment — let the people decide which mode of payment to use, which is better. If more people use local (fiat) currency, then so be it, it must be better on the whole. If they use more GPs (because of the many advantages the GP brings to the table), so be it, GPs must be better on the whole.
Well, this economic system is much to talk of ....
Why one shouldn't worry about GPs losing currency:
The GP system may not be perfect as of now, but that should not discourage you from joining and trying it out. Any problems will be rectified through user feedback and further development of the analysis. At least the GP monetary infrastructure provides a start, those who are ill-treated by capitalism (workers, farmers, and whoever does the actual work and is duly insulted by the system) — should lead the way in adopting this new global currency, especially given that they won’t lose anything due to the provision of a safety net.
The important thing to take away is that every user who registers in the Beaverteams database, gets free money — 200 GPs — to kick-start his economic activities!
As for free land, which is another requirement of a Gesellian order and can help kick-start local GP-based economies, it’s not so easy for me to arrange, but surely you can find some land ...
Wrestle the government, in case it tries to restrict you, for your right to a bit of land. The earth belongs to earthlings, not barrow wights with UFOs who double up as the peasant zamindars of the earth defying arrest as per Proudhon's maxim "property is theft".
If you think on it, you’ll realize that Beaverteams works best when there are (a lot of) people nearby. For a start, these people could be your friends living nearby…
In being a barter/exchange value measurement unit — the Gesellian Pound, the new, optional virtual currency at the heart of Beaverteams, is SAFE
As people do for each other without paying each other in anything but GPs (which can be called “free money”) — the GP ecosystem may, in the short run, resemble a gift economy, but it is not actually so.
The GP is a yardstick by which a giver (of goods and services) can measure how much he has given to his fellow man.
It is expected, at the same time, for this fellow man to be returning such favors, either directly or indirectly, as and when he can, to the general user base. This logic is ingrained in the GP, because of such conditions:
As the GP is a barter/exchange value measurement unit as much as it is a currency, and as “who paid who?” is on record — in the unlikely case that the GP system is unable to continue – there is, still, no need to worry due to the GP’s status as an exchange value measurement unit. That is to say, it’s understood (by all who use GPs), that, in case of system inviability, all outstanding GP debts will be calculated, as shown below, and repaid in cash or kind.
People holding GPs (“receivers”) can expect to be reimbursed by those (“takers”) who took from them goods and services in exchange for GPs. In case of system dissolution, takers are legally bound to pay to receivers the equivalent of as many GPs as were exchanged — in goods, services, or pre-existing local fiat currencies. Though of course, it may take a while to recover the ‘GP debts’.
Thus in the unlikely event of a “system failure”, one can think of all preceding transactions (which are recorded in the user’s accounts page) as amounting to loans given by the GP receivers (givers of goods and services), who can now recover the ‘GP debts’ — which are calculated as follows:
If user X (taker) uses 10 GPs (say) to pay user Y (receiver), in that case, while Y does get the benefit of 10 GPs moved into his account, he also gets a safety net — an implicit contract is created, which reads:
in case the GP system ceases to exist or work out well (that can be defined as: widely gain currency), X promises to pay Y the equivalent of 10 GPs in goods, services, or pre-existing local fiat currencies”.
Due to the presence of this contract, people may use GPs without worry…
How is the GP debt calculated in the light of how its value changes with time? In the early days, 1 GP roughly equals in value one big burger (or more generally “an affordably-priced meal at a decent place”), which currently costs around $5. As the GP “gains currency”, and as the upward or downward movement of its value gets underway, let’s say 1 GP can buy n number of such meals (n can be less or more than 1 — depending on what the “free market” decides).
In the unlikely event of failure of the GP ecosystem, total outstanding GP debt (in dollars) will be calculated and repaid.
All debts repaid by this rule, one won’t lose a thing even if he is left holding many GPs if the GP ecosystem becomes unviable.
With any luck, however, it will not crash because it is more of a virtual currency, for measurement of exchange... and we’ll never have to do these foreboding calculations!
I’m not saying, “Use the GP because it’s egalitarian” — but I surely say don’t interrupt the experiment — let the people decide which mode of payment to use, which is better. If more people use local (fiat) currency, then so be it, it must be better on the whole. If they use more GPs (because of the many advantages the GP brings to the table), so be it, GPs must be better on the whole.
Is it needed? Well, it always was. The reverse side of the Worgl Bills were printed with the following declaration:
“To all whom it may concern!
Sluggishly circulating money has provoked an unprecedented trade depression and plunged millions into utter misery. Economically considered, the destruction of the world has started. – It is time, through determined and intelligent action, to endeavour to arrest the downward plunge of the trade machine and thereby to save mankind from fratricidal wars, chaos, and dissolution. Human beings live by exchanging their services. Sluggish circulation has largely stopped this exchange and thrown millions of willing workers out of employment. – We must therefore revive this exchange of services and by its means bring the unemployed back to the ranks of the producers. Such is the object of the labour certificate [money] issued by the market town of Wörgl: it softens sufferings dread; it offers work and bread.”
Diffuse growth is ideal, and capitals as well as capitalism can be defined simply as cancerous growths in society -
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