Comments on: Book of the Day: Creating Sustainable Societies, towards the “Principles Societies” model of governance https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-creating-sustainable-societies-towards-the-principles-societies-model-of-governance/2012/08/06 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:15:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Josef Davies-Coates https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-creating-sustainable-societies-towards-the-principles-societies-model-of-governance/2012/08/06/comment-page-1#comment-492670 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:15:45 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=25450#comment-492670 I have a very similar vision. And the good news is that much of the legal frameworks and code to make it possible now exists, e.g.

Multi-Stakeholder Co-operative Society Model Rules:
http://files.uniteddiversity.com/Money_and_Economics/Cooperatives/Multi-Stakeholder_Co-ops/Somerset_Rules_2012.pdf

Bettermeans: Open Source Democratic Project Management

Bettermeans Code:
https://github.com/Bettermeans/bettermeans

Bettermeans Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D–Ob2CxLds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlnMWlvw9g

A few open source decision-making platforms of note:
http://liquidfeedback.org/
http://code.adhocracy.de/en/
https://github.com/rbjarnason/open-active-democracy

Lot of software projects for community/ complementary currencies out there too:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Complementary_Currency_Software

Other open source tools of note that are nice and useful for collaboration:
http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ – web video conferencing/ whiteboard
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ – voice/ text chat/ conferencing
etc etc etc 🙂

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