my understanding of time banking is that one earns 1 time dollar for 1 hour of work regardless of the type of work.
tgl seems to let people set their rates, so wouldn't be an alternative currency and not time banking.
i think time banking would be interesting to try at ows.
white hat
From: elly <urbanpubedreform@gmail.com>
To:
internet_working_group@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [NYCGA-IWG] time bank for OWS job creation?
just got an interesting message from: http://www.tgl.tv/users/login
Maybe the wheel (or, some spokes, at least) has been created already?
On 11/5/2011 12:55 PM, Jill T wrote:
> I am exploring OWS using a local timebank to facilitate job flow at
> the site - I am especially hoping kids who are not working now might
> be interested in plugging into the time bank system.
>
> I wonder if working groups could offer jobs - provide a little
> training, shadowing, learning and doing opportunities.
>
> If anyone is interested I will keep posting here, since I can't
> through to post on open source. If it seems at all feasible I will
> propose to explore it further.