Re: [Taler] Taler as regional currency

[Christian Grothoff]

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

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