DATES. Friday, June 28th – Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024. We recommend arriving the day before and leaving the day after these session dates.
LOCATION. DKC Incel Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Veljka Mlađenovića bb. Banja Luka is a small city in Bosnia, a two and a half hour bus-ride from Zagreb, Croatia. We’ll be hosted in a social space with a similar vibe to the Commons Hub in Austria (consider helping in the Resurrection of the Hub!).
COSTS. €150 (food included) + accommodation. Accommodation options are:
- Basic accommodation with breakfast (15 beds only).
- Partner Hostel (4km~ from venue, 30 beds only).
- Stay at a nearby hotel or AirBnB. Join our Telegram group to seek accommodation to share.
Introduction.
We need to re-organise work, wages, cooperation, food, community, procurement, health, education, even government. Financial innovation is a critical part of the solution, re-imagining investment, ownership, pensions, money, cooperation, supply chains and resilience.
There are too many ideas to process, it can be hard to look beyond our specialist bubbles and impossible to coordinate, to agree, to plan.
#CoFi is a space for meeting, knowing each other, building trust, cooperation and hopefully, building power. In our first gathering we showcased payment systems architectures, and how credit is created and circulates and extinguished within them.
But finance is just numbers if it doesn’t serve the real economy. This July, the Crypto Commons Association is proud to offer CoFi 2, where we will start to bridge alternative finance to other alternatives! #CoFi isn’t intended to be super-geeky; grassroots building requires building broad alliances rather than competing for market niches.
If you are still reading, you’re invited to Banja Luka at the end of June. We want to see practitioners not only in payments tech, but in community building and community finance, food networks, barter networks, business networks and everything adjacent.
If you can’t make June 28th to July 3rd, do also consider the Crypto Commons Gathering (sign up to CCA’s newsletter for the future announcement!) which brings together blockchain practitioners working towards tangible social benefits.
Who Are The Organizers?
We have been leaders in the field of complementary currencies for many years.
- Matthew Slater co-founded and provides free software for Community Forge, which hosts web sites for hundreds of LETS groups. See his web site.
- Stephen DeMeulenaere originally from Canada and based in Asia has been active for over 30 years in the field in numerous, mostly 3rd world countries, and for many years kept the definitive global database of complementary currencies and library literature, and has also worked extensively in the blockchain space. See his profile.
- Crypto Commons Association has co-organised the first CoFi Gathering in May 2023, and generally promotes the development of Crypto Commons/Commons Economy infrastructures, through contents, research (Check out the Commons Economy Roadmap) and events.
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