Open Workshop
At Foyer Hub 1

Makerfox is a moneyless marketplace focusing on the maker / hacker / DIY / entrepreneurial economy. Developed by Matthias Ansorg, Daniel Ansorg and supported by the Edgeryders community, the Makerfox platform launched in the aftermath of the Great Recession and ensuing European austerity. It uses novel algorithms in a web-based platform to run an economy on a modern, computerised form of barter, and is meant especially for areas where big numbers of people are economically excluded ("jobless") even though they have skills, time and needs.
Makerfox allows you to participate in a complex barter-based economy; post what you have and what you need, and the software will automatically make a multi-party barter exchange for you when one becomes possible. In addition, Makerfox recently added moneyless crowdfunding; so if you’re running a project that benefits the planet but monetary donations are never enough to cover your expenses, this might be for you. With moneyless crowdfunding, you can give and receive donations for projects on a resource and in-kind basis.
This session will give an overview of how Makerfox works and facilitate a deal between participants. You can just watch, but we invite you to be a part of it: in that case, register an account, bring your project, skills or items to start trading. The tail end of session will be focused on discussing the implications of network barter systems, what the effects of mass adoption might look like and how Makerfox as a platform could better support the work of those participating in the session.

With Mathias Ansorg

Mathias Ansorg is a computer scientist who got his diploma in 2006 from Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Germany, and has worked as a self-employed IT professional since 2008. Matt is interested in all things about alternative economics, including timebanks, complementary currencies, cryptocurrencies and credit-based schemes, and has long dreamed of a software system that can reconnect Europe's idle resources and economically excluded people into a flourishing and fair economy. He writes a blog over at ma.juii.net and at Twitter as @matjahu.