2011 Agenda : CommunityForge Complementary Currency Strategy Retreat
We'll be discussing, defining and forming a new CC Community of Practice especially for experienced practitioners to support new initiatives.
We'll also be working with the attendees to decide how Community Forge can be most relevant to their projects, and reconsidering our governance structure and funding strategy.
THE PLACE
http://www.cooperation.net/objectifgaia
A wonderfully conducive environment half-way up a mountain overlooking Geneva Lake and the highest mountains in Europe.
THE WORKSHOP
Friday eve
| 5 pm | Transport from Lyon to Tiocan |
| 7 pm | Welcome drink with three-questions, get-to-know-each-other game |
| 8 pm | Dinner at giant common table |
| 9 pm | Opening remarks, desired outcomes |
Saturday
| 08:00 | Breakfast |
| 09:00 | 5-minute formal presentations of each participant "What are you doing within the CC movement?" "What are the 2 or 3 most important factors that influence your goals and your work in the CC movement?" (i.e technology, communities, policy, people, ideas, environments, events, etc.) |
| 10:30 | coffee |
| 11:00 | Using the results from your SWOT, and your presentation of the "2-3 most important factors" done previously, CommunityForge will present a "landscape" of the CC movement and the issues faced in the different areas. Participants will form groups in relation to this landscape. |
| 11:30 | The groups will discuss and define responses or suggestions to the issues faced in their specific area. |
| 12:30 | Plenum? With the results from the group work above, participants will determine how CommunityForge can best use its resources to help the CC movement forward |
| 13:00 | Lunch, Walk |
| 14:00 | Define and Design the Community of Practice by asking key questions and doing exercises |
| 15:00 | TBD by progress made and direction taken |
| 16.30 | Break |
| 17:00 | TBD by progress made and direction taken |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Sunday
| 08:30 | Breakfast |
| 09:30 | CommunityForge will present/propose a prototype of the tools for the coordination of the CoP, which will have been created the previous eve/night taking into consideration the group work from Saturday. |
| 10:30 | Short training program on the prototype |
| 11.00 | Break |
| 11:30 | In order to start using the Prototype in a real-world situation, we have organised Lightning talks. During these talks, a list of tasks and next steps for that CC project is created. Then participants may commit to doing those tasks to get both the project and the CoP rolling. -Tiocan, an eco-currency project -Swiss French-Speaking Social Worker's Currency -Extending the Route des SEL network (2500 members) to the US, in collaboration with Timebanks USA -Agglo Annemasse Currency ?other |
| 13:00 | Lunch, Walk |
| 14:00 | Transport to Genève (or Thoiry) for those that must leave |
| 14:30 | General Assembly (agenda to be determined) Workshop participants are welcome. (We are presently discussing how to manage voting rights) - What should be our resource strategy? - How much should we work on general and specific solutions? - What should be the meaning of a cforge hour? Ownership? Shares? Voting rights? Exchangeable for cash? - learning and development |
| 17:00 | Wrap-up drink |
| 18:00 | Departure |
| Sunday eve/night | You may eat at the Tiocan on Sunday eve (leftovers), and stay the night for €20. Please talk to Joss or Nico, and pay them directly. |
Attendees
Tim Anderson, CommunityForge
Matthew Slater, CommunityForge
Shawn Berlin, CommunityForge
Leander Bindewald, Independent (Belgium)
Karel Boele, Jnana Consulting
Stephen De Meulenaere, complementarycurrency.org (Bali)
Annette Loudon, Independent (Australia)
Stephanie Rearick, Timebanks USA
Will Ruddick, Eco Pesa (Kenya)
Tim Jenkin, Community Exchange Systems (South Africa)
Dominique Doré, Coordinator of SEL de Paris (Group of 40 LETS)
Alain Roy, Route des SEL International (2500 traders) and SELidaire (an umbrella organisation for the 400 SEL in France)
Bernard Simon, Coordinator of SEL de Belgique Francophone (Group of 40 LETS)
Danièle Warynski, Project leader Monnaie des Travailleurs Sociales Romandes (potentially 3500 traders)
Etienne Hayem, zoupic, Test Trading network set up by WWF France, Tiocan Project
Eric Servel, Banque Nef, THE Alternative Bank in France
Bertrand
Joshua Zeidner, Independent
Nicolas Briet, Tiocan
Facilitators:
Danny Stein, CommunityForge
Shawn Berlin, CommunityForge