Time Banking is a simple concept: you work for an hour, earn an hour credit, and spend an hour with someone in your time bank community. Time banks don't get penalized in benefit reductions or pay taxes because unlike market-based national currencies, time banks are more like charitable volunteering circles of mutual aid or relationship-based gift economies. As the recession and Occupy movement encourage people to reimagine work and how they get their needs met in the new economy, time banks are really catching on. Autumn Rooney is a Los Angeles-based activist and community builder. In March, 2008, she co-founded the Echo Park Time Bank, a community collective whose purpose is to facilitate the cooperative exchange of goods and services among its hundreds of members. It's a pay-it-forward system that connects unmet needs with untapped resources. Recently, the Echo Park Time Bank migrated its time banking software to Community Weaver, a hosted Drupal platform provided by Time Banks USA, a non-profit that is dedicated to promoting and supporting time banking around the world. In this presentation, Autumn Rooney and Christefano Reyes from Exaltation of Larks will present on the concept and the practice of time banking and how Drupal is used in the organization to fully manage its currency system and economy.
Videos of meetings, presentations, tutorials and more from the Drupal user groups in and around Los Angeles, including http://groups.drupal.org/la, http://groups.drupal.org/downtown-los-angeles and http://groups.drupal.org/san-gabriel-valley
