Re: Market Idea

Whats the status of the API for sharing?  We need it!

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:21 AM, elf Pavlik
<perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>wrote:

> Excerpts from Daniel Harris's message of 2012-02-29 01:34:32 +0000:
> > On 29 Feb 2012, at 02:13, hellekin <hellekin@cepheide.org> wrote:
> > > *** Sounds like Amazon's wishlist. Is there an RDF model for something
> > > like that? I would definitely use it :]
> > >
> > > I need:
> > >  - a ride to amsterdam
> > >  - a crash in Berlin for the next couple of months
> > >  - a new pair of pants :P
> > >
> > > I offer:
> > >  - free service to the community, not targeted to any single
> > > individual or project
> > >    - free 24/7 sysadmin on lorea machines and friends
> > >    - free help for Debian lovers
> > >    - free help for Free Software lovers
> > >    - free massage
> > >    - free cooking
> > >
> > > Dammit, maybe I should charge... That's why people restrict themselves
> > > to "clients" and "customers": they get income out of it. I'm learning
> > > slowly. So maybe I could shorten my list:
> > >
> > > - - I need a job that lets me advance free software and global
> > > cooperation and pay for my travel expenses without requiring me to
> > > pretend that I want to sell bullshit to anybody.
> >
> > You 'should' be able to mix free and paid offers and requests within one
> description. And have different criteria for each one depending on the
> recipient. Like I'll do free stuff for unemployed but charge for people
> with income.
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Have you taken a look at this site i've shared before on this list:
> http://polyeconomy.hackers4peace.net/
>
> I would add to the 'paid' - which accounting system you want to use:
> 'mainstream/state currencies', LETS, Bitcoin, some Ripple based system etc.
>
> And between 'paid' with monetary currencies and 'free' i also see place
> for various other variants: reputation based, 'in return please just give
> me confirmation of my contribution' - for building up 'social karma'. Or
> also 'shared benefit' variants: I will volounteer in common transporation
> collective if i get 'share of tickets' to share with who i want to.
>
> BTW i've just contacted people collaborating on development of 'API for
> sharing' as you may read in this article:
> http://shareable.net/blog/an-api-for-sharing
> https://groups.google.com/group/api-for-sharing
>
> Yesterday i've got sys-notification about Juho Makkonen (author of post
> mentioned above) joining our group =)
> Hi Juho, glad to make connection!
>
> Cheers!
> =)
> ~ elf Pavlik ~
>
>


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