PS Goals

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Vision

Goals and Metrics

Local Economic Vitality and Sustainability

 · Increase volume of sales for existing local business

 · Increase number and diversity of local services available locally

 

 · 10-15% increase in sales for participating non-tourist oriented retailers

 · Add to the local economy 30-40 hours of diverse services per year per PS member.

Employment and Living Wage

 · Maintain full employment equivalency in Mariposa

 · Everyone to achieve Living Wage equivalency.

 

 · Every non-retired family unit maintain a minimum of 32 productive hours a week (based on combination of EDD Stats on plus Time Dollars earned)

 · Every family unit maintains an equivalency of living wage as calculated by their conventional wage, plus time dollars earn (at living wage rate), plus Rewards earned

Civic Engagement / Social Justice

 · Eliminate generational poverty in Mariposa

 · Meet local Nonprofits and OVA’s (Organized Volunteer Associations) staffing needs (combination of paid and volunteers).

 

· Provide a path out of poverty for any citizen.

 · Increase safety net services to vulnerable population

 · Increase hours donated to participating NP’s and OVA’s by 25-50%

Environmental Responsibility and Sustainable Practices

· Reduce Mariposa’s carbon foot print to meet Kyoto Protocol

 · Enable everyone to achieve Living Wage equivalency.

 

 · Provide incentives of sustainable practices throughout the PS system

 · Underwrite or support sustainable initiates

 


SOFTWARE for LETS
updated at 26/12/2008
In compiling a brief update to this list, which is still lacking in some details but otherwise links to where further information may be obtained, we are much indebted to Hugh Barnard. This alphabetica list includes the software we know of (marked 'free' that is viable or 'nearly' viable (in some cases, licensing not clear). It also includes some commercial software. Our aim at LETSlink is to make all options known on the basis that different programmes will suit LETS at different stages in their development, starting with the abacus, manual ledgers and Excel spreadsheets! We are now becoming involved in helping LETS directly, because software which is freely given always requires expertise to host and install, and training to use it, and there will be an impact on the way the LETS scheme operates. Anyone wanting to write software please see what projects are already under way and consider joining an existing project rather than re-inventing the wheel. Anyone who knows of software not listed here, who has technical skills to help survey and install software, and/or who wants to have software installed for your scheme please contact us or go to www.cxss.info

Programme Name, Function 
What it do? eg Member List, Offers & Wants List, Accounts, Statistics, etc. Language or standard software on which based. 

System Requirements,  Support, Contact
Special Features. Platform on which it runs, ie DOS, Windows, Mac, Unix/Linux. Minimum System Requirements: eg Windows 95, 1GB hard drive, 1MB free space, 64kB memory, 800x600 display, etc. When the programme was first written. Current version number and date. Current Development Plans. Nature of support provided. Who is using it, with contact details. Feedback from users, both recommendations, or about overcoming any particular problems

Further Details/Terms
Is it Proprietary, Free /Open Source, Freeware, Shareware, or Other? License details? Cost if any to buy, license or use. Is it open to user-modification? Link to Demos and/or
Who is using it?
 
BARTER/LETS
 http://www.cyberclass.net/bartable.htm
http://www.cyberclass.net/ufoh.htm 		Background links
CC-LITE
perl/mysql

http://www.hughbarnard.org/?q=node/3

 'free' 
CES Community Exchange System - international network set up under the auspices of SANE - South African New Economics: www.community-exchange.org Groups are asked to set up an account - software itself not available.
COGS

http://cogs.avbp.net/ - http://www.avbp.net/ocp/
Post-Carbon Institutue - Sweden: http://www.postcarbon.org/node/2135

Consultancy in development
Donations requested

CYCLOS
java/hibernate/mysql		 http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyclos
http://project.cyclos.org
http://cyclos.momomo.org/cyclos/

'free' 

 
DualCurrency Systems http://www.dualcurrency.com/  

ECOMONEY
BB2/php/mysql

Project: www.ecomoney.co.uk
Inaugural scheme: www.scunnymoney.com

 'free'
Consultancy in development
FRIEND2FRIEND Based on altrustic model, being developed by Robin Upton www.altruists.org/projects/ge/ff/
Geek credit http://home.gna.org/geekcredit/  

HTML

 http://www.camdenlets.org camden@letslink.org
iWAT www.media-art-online.org/iwat/ • more about iWAT  
LENTILS
perl/file storage		 http://lentils.imagineis.com/cgi-bin/lets/webtool.cgi 'free'
LETSAssist Standalone software developed in Australia  
LETsam
standalone - microsoft access
 www.letslinkscotland.org.uk • www.cxn.org.uk Commercial - LETSlink Scotland
LETS Forum
postnuke/php/mysql		 http://www.letsf.co.uk/ 'free' LETS Southwest
LOIS
This access-based programme holds member records and does Accounts. 		This is a customised version of Access, which is the standard Microsoft, so a windows PC is required.
http://www.loissoftware.co.uk/loisweb/index.asp?topic=./lets/faq
Ongoing support is provided by the author, Gerry Vahrman, to purchasers of the software contact lets@loissoftware.com
LOCAL-EXCHANGE
php/mysql

The original website is at http://www.fourthcornerexchange.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/local-exchange

 'free' under GPL (GNU Public License). Working on UK version at www.localexchange.org.uk
matsLETS
php/mysql		 http://phpeace.qwarx.com/multilets
http://phpeace.qwarx.com/matslets/ 		In testing phase: LLL
- co-development invited
OdLETS
This access-based programme holds member records and does Accounts.		 At Oswestry & District LETS we use a Microsoft Access database to hold details of all our members, their wants and offers, and all the Oswald transactions. We have made an empty version of the database. It is about 300k ZIPped, and unzips to a 1.6MB database file. It requires Microsoft Access 2.0 or later - users with later versions of Access (e.g. Microsoft Office 95) will automatically be asked if they want to upgrade the database to the latest version when they first load it The database will automatically run a main menu screen, with buttons for all the common tasks. People familiar with Microsoft Access, who want to run ad-hoc reports, or get at the internals of the database should use "Unhide" in the "Window" menu to bring up the main database window.
 'free' - To download a free copy of the software go to the website of odLETS, pan down and click on LETS database. No help or support is provided, although I will try to reply to emailed requests for help if I have time - send requests to Nikki Locke: <odlets@trumphurst.com>
OPEN MONEY
php/mysql -tikiwiki based 		 http://demo.openmoney.org • www.openmoney.org/go/cc.html 'free' 

PyLETS
This web-based programme does Accounts. The LETS administrator has access to cheque entry, and the members can view the results on the LETS website.

PyLETS is written in Python and runs on Unix and Linux. It is a web-based CGI programme, and it uses file locking for data persistence so is very low cost, not needing a relational database backend. Nightly backups to another site are handled by email. In practice it will run on any platform that can do Python CGIs including Windows. Minimum system requirements are whatever will run your web-server, eg Apache - please refer to web server documentation.

PyLETS was first written in 2002. No support is offered. Implementers must be willing to read source code. The current version is 0.4, released May 2003. Development plans include additional columns for historical turnover, implementing year end processing. It is currently being used by Coventry LETS, where Richard Kay is the LETS Accountant. Feedback so far is that "it works much better than the paper-based system it replaces".

'free' - PyLETS is free software written by Richard Kay, operating under GNU Public License available as a free download. It is open to user modification, and if you do modify it the license specifies you must make source code of your changes available to your users. Richard's contact details are: rich@copsewood.net
http://copsewood.net/py_lets_cgi.

LETSlink London are working on installing this software for for Camden LETS, in London UKg
REGENEROSITY Geoff Cheshire (USA) - geoffch@geoffch.cnc.net - http://Regenerosity.com
 		http://partysmart.org/vcsh/
RIPPLE http://ripple.sourceforge.net/  
TIMEKEEPER
Lists Members, Does Accounts, Provides statistics. Requires Access 2000 or later for the latest version.		 Timekeeper (a) lists members including services offered and needed, (b) provides search for members providing or needing a service with constraints on time and place, (c) lists transactions, (d) can generate statistical reports and reports for each member showing their transactions and account balance. This program started out with Access 2.0 about 10 years ago. User documentation is provided by several Time Bank organizations. Latest version is 2.24. www.timekeeper.org/timekeeper/ Free for download from the Timekeeper web site. Timekeeper is used by hundreds of Time Bank organizations in many different countries.
UNILETIM
php/mysql		 http://sourceforge.net/projects/uniletim/
http://uniletim.sourceforge.net/ 		'free'
     
     



FURTHER DETAILS

Richard Kay hosts a discussion list for LETS-specific software:
List-Subscribe: <http://copsewood.net/mailman/listinfo/mrsdev>,
<mailto:mrsdev-request@copsewood.net?subject=subscribe>

LETS GET TOGETHER:
A series of software meetings held at Limehouse Town Hall during 2005
minuted here by Hugh Barnard
 http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/index.php/FacultyEconometrics

concurrently with the LETSlink London's How To Pilot Course
for further details see: http://letslinkuk.net/london/training/index.htm

Meanwhile we have started a comparison table - needs updating

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