Hi Will, Interesting experiment, please keep us posted! Encouraging the members to give back to the community (even if it has some way of compensation) doesn't sound like a problem to me. Are you going to establish some kind of equivalences? Or will you give a fixed amount of LOLs to anyone doing anything? Regarding bitcoins, a while ago we had a request from a space to add bitcoins payments to Cobot - which we actually did - so I know that someone out there is using them. Anyone out there that can share their experiences with these alternative payment methods? Cheers,
Cristina http://cobot.me PS: Will you be at Coworking Europe? :) On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:05:40 PM UTC+2, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace wrote: > > Hi All, > > Our coworking space just introduced it's own cuurrency, Locus Laughs > (LOL). Members can earn it for anything they do to contribute to the > community, they can use it to pay for any products or services in the > space, and they can trade it to one another for services and then use their > Laughs to pay for membership or whatever. The idea was to have some way to > show some kind of thanks to those who give the most back to the community. > It also just seemed like a fun experiment. Though I do worry a little that > it will make giving to the community a commodity and take away from the > less selfish motives of giving. > > We've also just started accepting Bitcoin. Also largely as an experiment > and to add some spice to the space. > > Any other spaces experimented with this? Any ideas about what works well > or badly with local currencies or with Bitcoin? > > Here's our blog post about it with more details about both: > > http://blog.locusworkspace.cz/2013/10/locus-accepts-bitcoin-and-its-own-new.html > > Would love feedback and to hear other stories! > > Best, > Will > Locus Workspace > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
