Re: [Taler] Taler as regional currency

[Isidor Wallimann]

Thank you, Christian,
for conveying us all this super info and visions.
Best wishes and regards,
Isidor (writing from Basel) , President www.sozialeoekonomie.org and 
www.netzbon.ch 

Isidor Wallimann, Ph.D.
Visiting Research Professor 
Maxwell School, Syracuse University
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Christian Grothoff <grothoff@gnunet.org> 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Mai 2024 12:45
An: taler@gnu.org
Cc: Jürgen Beger <j.beger@luki.org>; leo.wittmann@gls.de; Siegfried Herbold 
<siggi@herbold.info>
Betreff: Re: [Taler] Taler as regional currency

Dear Juegen,

As Marc wrote, the people from Netzbon.ch are doing exactly this right now. 
They have their annual assembly on June 10th in Basel, if you want to seek them 
out in person that _might_ be an opportunity. We've recently started to put 
together a brochure for shops to explain to them how they could accept GNU 
Taler. I'm attaching the latest version. Also, I'm putting the Netzbon people 
in BCC so that they could contact you for a direct exchange.

Furthermore, GLS Bank is *thinking* about offering bank accounts for 
event-currencies and __maybe__ also for regional currencies (???), but AFAIK 
they're still looking into the regulatory fun this would entail. 
Regardless, they are most knowledgeable about GNU Taler so if you want your 
regional currency to be backed by an EUR bank account (with currency 
conversion), you should talk to Leo (in CC).

Recently, Siggi (also in CC) mentioned to me that he's in principle happy to 
offer *hosting* support for event (and I presume regional) currency setups 
(running the servers).  And naturally, Taler Systems SA and the GNU Taler 
community might be helpful with development support.

So that's your puzzle pieces:

Netzbon - actual first experience
GLS Bank - possible bank, regulatory fun ahead Siggi - possible 
sysadmin-as-a-service

Our documentation for this kind of setup is here:
https://docs.taler.net/libeufin/regional-automated-manual.html

Happy hacking & good luck!

Christian


On 5/28/24 12:12, Jürgen Beger wrote:
> Dear all,
> I`m looking for a guy, who uses the Taler solution in his region for a 
> regional currency. In 2017 in our town started the project 
> "Stadtgutschein" (http://www.kw-city.de/stadtgutschein/).
> You can buy a paper for 10€ and pay in more than 20 shops or retaurants.
> Now we want to make the service and the administration easier.
> I hope for a solution with taler.
> My questions:
> 1. Is there a person who can show us such solution in his region?
> 2. Is there anyone who gives Taler regional currancy as a service?
> 
> At first I want to show the trader administration the possebilities.
> Thanks for the answers before.
> Best regards
> Jürgen
> 
>