About the event and FAQ

This event is not a conference to consume information about open money, nor is it a workshop or a retreat. It is truly a working intensive for those who are called to actively participate in the open money project. Please come if:

1) you feel a call to be part of the open money project
2) you are ready to be accountable for making it a reality
3) you are willing to prepare for the intensive by participating in some pre-event online workshops

At the intensive we will be using our own tools, practices, and platform to measure, guide, and generate our own wealth. A software design and a demonstration version are ready for us to jump in. Our intention and expectation is that this bootstrapping will create the cohesion for ongoing action and collective play.

If this opportunity tugs at your soul, please register. "What is the Schedule?"

March 2nd: Arrive in Mexico-City &travel 1.5 hours to Tepoztlán.
March 3rd: Orientation,community-integration, open money learning sessions
March 4th: open play process
March 5th-9th: Sub-group working sessions
March 10th: Leave, Mexico City.

"What are the costs?"
Costs are limited to direct expenses in making this event possible. The cost is $850 USD per person, it covers meals, lodging, transportation to and from the event site and our group activities. The organizing team has been working hard to find an inexpensive yet inspiring space near Mexico City, surrounded by nature and beauty, with internet connection and all facilities. We are still in the process of finding financial support so the price may even be cheaper.

"Can I come part of the time?"

We understand that some folks who are committed to open money can't take a whole week out of their schedules at this time, so we have planned an exit point of March 7th for those who need to leave sooner. If for some reason you can`t come on the 3rd please contact us directly.

"Will this be focused specifically on Open Money?"

Absolutely. Open money is the main focus of this event. However, it can't be the only thing we do, because, for example, we have to practice our collective intelligence skills to be able to work well together. We have to eat well to nourish our bodies, and we have to play to nourish our souls!

"Will this be a global forum for those involved in alternative monetary systems or exploration of wealth to share their work?"

Definitely not. That would be an idea sharing conference. Such conferences often lead to divergence. We want this to be a convergent workshop that builds an open money working group that will persist by sharing the deep experiences of working together. Sharing ideas, in our experience, cannot substitute for sharing co-creative effort.

"What is the meeting's intended outcome?"
The overarching-goal of the event is to:

1. Offer people supporting the project the opportunity to meet and engage into coordinated action
2. Create an organically growing community and momentum
3. Shift the project toward a global realization

Possible specific outcomes may be:

• Coding and architecture progress
• Better user interface
• Fundraising, financial engineering
• Design and create new currencies
• A fun inviting viral game
• Image design (logo,etc)
• Explanatory media (videos, white-papers, stories, blogs, websites, socialmedia)
• Shifting from strategy into elaborated tactics
• A sense of our own capacity as a core visionary cell committed to make it a reality
• Fun!

"How can I participate if I can't come to the event itself"

1. Read, learn, participate in the pre-learning events

2. Contribute cash to make the event possible for those who could come except for lack of cash.

3. Stay in touch here!

Please tell us other ways you feel led to contribute.

"What is the pre-learning phase?"
These on-line workshops are designed bring participants up to speed with a wider knowledge of open money language, concepts, and ideas, including the open-play process. This will help us organize, cohere, a work better together during the intensive. We want this phase to be fun so we are preparing video and written materials as well as audio and on-line synchronous learning. We have also created this social network space to have other tools such as blogs, forums and a shared space for individuals to begin to get to know each other ahead of time.

"Who is already actively working on the project?"

Jean-François Noubel: Founder of TheTransitioner, collective intelligence researcher, and open money advocate.

Eric Harris-Braun: Software designer, and open money platform architect

Fernanda Ibarra: Global Collective intelligence practitioner. Collaborates with TheTransitioner and open money.

Michael Linton: Designer of the core open-money multi-currency architecture, as well as LETSystems and other tools for community development.

Ernie Yacub: Co-developer with Michael since 1995, particularly on community way and the perpetual money machine.

Geoff Cheshire: Software designer, and open money platform architect (see regenerosity).

Les Moore: Spreading the concepts through LETSplay in schools in Europe and community projects in East London.

Being Essence: Is an organization practicing wealth acknowledgment and preparing the ground for the intensive in Mexico (all logistics etc).

"Is there funding available to support our travel and expenses?"

So far there is not. We are holding the intention that someone will feel called to make such funding a reality (either by offering it, or by locating it) as a commitment to the open money project.