[HacktionLab] Proposed talks

[Mike Harris]

Hi John,

Nice suggestions.  Can you add them to the Wiki page at
https://hacktionlab.org/hacktionlab/index.php/BarnCamp_2013_ideas_scratchpad
please?

A note to all as well is that the workshops do need to be clearly
beginner to intermediate.  I suggest if there's lots of terminology
involved in some technical explanations that it might be good to support
them with hand-outs in the form of a glossary.

Cheers,

Mike.


On 16/03/2013 20:58, johnc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose 2 talks:
>
> Mutual credit schemes as an alternative to crisis ridden capitalism
> and its failed banks:
> I'm planning to kick off a project in May in Oxford called oxcred
> (oxcred.org.uk). It will be a mutual credit scheme. It was inspired by
> the TEM scheme in Volos, Greece. It will use the cyclos banking
> software, (see cyclos.org). A fully working demo system is configured
> and running at oxcred.org.uk. Sign up and I will approve your account
> if you want to play around with the demo. You can also use the cyclos
> android app available in the play store. You will originally have a
> balance of +5 oxcreds, a credit limit of 10 oxcreds. A demurrage/
> liquidity tax of 1% per month is automatically applied to the positive
> balance of all accounts.
>
> Federated VOIP:
> A handful of companies maintain a strangle-hold on telecommunications
> systems internationally. They also control large blocks of number
> space. This is pretty arbitrary. We now have open source software such
> as opensips, repro, kamailio etc that can replace large chunks of the
> telephone network.
> Over the last couple of years open source software phones have
> improved greatly,(e.g. linphone and jitsi). we can use these to make
> and receive calls assisted by the SIP server software listed above.
> Critically these systems allow for federation. A user
> alice at domain1.org can securely call a second user bob at domain2.org
> using the above system. The inter-server signaling,(call set-up and
> routing), is protected by TLS and the actual voice data is sent
> directly between peers and can be encrypted with ZRTP. I'm hoping to
> build a prototype system over the next fortnight. I will make test
> accounts available to people when it is ready.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
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