Matthew Slater

* Community currency engineer

URL = https://matslats.net/ (his own web site)

Bio

“My theology degree did not equip me to live in this world. […] I re-started my career aged 31 from scratch, learning php and using it to support a local nonprofit, Shelter Centre. […] In 2008 I turned my attention to local money systems and to building really useful community accounting software so that communities could easily design and run their own economies in the event of a more serious economic calamity. That was when Tim Anderson and I co-founded Community Forge, to help the LETS movement upgrade and manage its software. […] I'm living mostly in the gift, currently nomadic, getting to know and connect people as many people in the movement as possible by staying with them.[…] I'm focusing less on building software and more on being open to opportunities that present themselves. In that spirit, I've co-created the trading floor game with Sybille Saint Girons, and a co-written a MOOC with Prof Jem Bendell. In 2016 I co-authored the Credit Commons white paper with CES creator Tim Jenkin, describing a money system for the solidarity economy.”

—— https://matslats.net/about-matslats

More Information

Pages on This Wiki

• Matthew Slater on Complementary Currencies and Mutual Credit
• Matthew Slater and Ross Gentleman on the Credit Commons
• Matthew Slater and Dil Green on the Credit Commons Protocol
• Art Brock, Michael Linton, Michel Bauwens, and Matthew Slater on Currencies and the Credit Commons
• Money as a Commons
• Credit Commons Protocol
• Protocols as Organizational Forms
• Credit Commons Open Protocol and Accounting System for Interoperable Local Currencies
• Community Forge
• Money and Society MOOC
• Collaborative Credit Systems
• Economics of Ecovillages
• Integral Technology
• Solidarity Economy Networks
• Permaculturing Finance
• Open Protocols
• Ecovillage Economics

Elsewhere

• his YouTube channel
• on Lowimpact.org
• at Drupal