now of money

Almost all the history of community currency (cc) development has been singularly monocultural - one group of account holders transacting in accordance with one agreement structure, generally using one recording procedure.  Systems have operated in isolation from others, even when geographically or otherwise close to others of a similar or even identical nature.  This is a severe limitation, and in fundamental contradiction of the opportunities inherent in virtual money systems - you can have any virtual currency, you can have many.  And so we will.

The open money app - http://openmoney.cc - gives users access to many currencies.  Users can create their own systems on their own terms, as easily as they can start an email list on google or yahoo.  

For ease of use and rapid proliferation the namespace architecture for naming user accounts and currency systems should be simple. And further, for optimal viral propagation of the network, the stewardship and administration of namespaces, currencies and accounts must be easily delegated.

First there are identities - people and organisations, generally real but also possibly virtual.

All they need have in common is an interest in virtual money and its application in real and virtual worlds.   

Registered identities can name accounts for recording transfers in community currencies (cc) in open money name spaces.

Each registered identity can have one or several trading accounts.

Trading accounts are grouped in spaces and sub-spaces, which will generally be communities of place or communities of interest.  

Initially, on the demonstration server, each registered profile identity is given permissions to create trading accounts, currency systems (and recursive namespaces, on request) within particular name spaces.

Registrants can also request access to geographically defined spaces of the form
"local.region.country-code"

The registered identities log in through their open money server and use their trading accounts to record transactions in a community currency (cc).

Many cc are better than one.  Each grouping of users is a different community of interaction, and most users will eventually participate in several.

All together now - but distinct.    

 

There are two patterns - trading accounts grouped in spaces of place or interest - who we are, and trading accounts grouped by their interactions - what we do.

There are communities of identity and communities of transaction.

You can try this software as a user, anonymous or otherwise.   You can register (several times if you like) open one or many trading accounts in name spaces accepting new users.  With these trading accounts you can join community currencies (cc) open to new accounts, and create your own cc systems.   

If you want to explore more of the possibilities, request to open your own name space, or apply to a steward of an existing (parent) name space to steward a (child) sub-space.  And so on, recursively.