Open source software on Lets, Time Banks and Food Donation
In this book to create communion, sharing and solidarity in the social sphere, we will describe some open source software necessary to manage Lets (Local exchange trading system) that is, democratically organized non-profit businesses or communities that provide a exchange of goods and services, using a currency created locally, Time Banks which unlike the Lets can only exchange services, using time in hours as currency and finally Food donation where they appear 3 figures: the donor who donates food, the associations who book the donated food and then deliver it to less well-off families and the delivery drivers who take the food from the donors and bring it to the associations.
As regards Lets, the main usable software, released under the GNU (General Public Licence) license is Cyclos written in Java and installable on any operating system or on the network mainly in special web hosting which offer it already pre-configured, or you can use an online community version for free at: https://communities.cyclos.org/register/app/form. This latest version will be analyzed in this book. For assistance on the use of Cyclos you can use the following forum: https://forum.cyclos.org/
As regards Time Banks, in addition to Cyclos itself, you can use Openbdt, a Web application in Italian to be translated into English, written in Php, Mysql, released under the GNU license and freely downloadable from Github: https://github.com/MassimoGirondi/openbdt
Finally, for food donation you can use the 'Food donation app, a web application written in Php, Mysql, released under the MIT license and freely downloadable from Github: https://github.com/kishor-23/food-waste-management-system .
