Matthew Slater
* Community currency engineer, a.k.a. matslats
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