Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Q: How many Cohousing communities use timebanking?

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Apr 21, 2023, at 4:54 PM, Daisy <daisykbirch [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> *A questions for all cohousers...*
> 1--Does your cohousing community use a timebanking process.
> 2--If you do, do you use it as a community, or do members use it
> individually?
> 3--Which platform do you use to keep track of hours or, is yours a
> *home-made* setup?

Mosaic Software Powering Communities has a time banking module in addition to 
all the other modules so a community can use it for recording exchanges between 
members or even use it to record workshare. 

Only a couple of exchanges are recorded in the demo. Diane Craig is developing 
the demo site but I’m not sure how soon she plans to expand this module. I’m 
working on the documentation but I haven’t worked on the Time Bank pages yet. 

If more people are interested in using the time banking module, we can move it 
up on the “do this next” list.

So far, you can use Mosaic to record exchanges and balances, requests, and 
skills.  I haven’t talked to Sean about all the possibilities, but given the 
capabilities of other Mosaic modules, it could easily be developed to do 
everything the other time banking software does. And I have lots of experience 
working with Time Banking software. So let us know if you are interested in 
this.

The main information site about Mosaic:
https://cohousing.site/

The demonstration site:
https://demo.cohousing.site/Home
Username and password are both “demo"

In the top menu bar click “Other" to open a dropdown menu and choose “TimeBank”.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org