MEMBERS NOTICE: General meeting – 11am March 17, 2019.
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Through BrisLETS you will also meet friendly, generous, caring people who value trading locally in just about anything.
Events
There are trade events every month across Brisbane, is there one near you? Check out our calendar to find a trading event in your area.
Events
Are you at a loss using our websites
and understanding how to trade with Units?
Get some free tuition, in person, from your CES Website Administrator, Simon Cole.
- What is the difference between brislets.com and communityexchange.net.au?
- Did you know you can use your smartphone to do a transaction in less than 30 seconds?
- When should you do mixed offerings ($s & Us)? How much should the $s be?
- How do you decide to gift instead of trade?
- Bring your own issues and get them answered!
- Did you know you can see what new volunteer opportunities there are on the website? And a full job description?
- Did you know you can earn Units ‘volunteering’ – and do you know HOW they are rewarded?
- Who is working to keep BrisLETS going? What are the Admins, Committees and Teams? Did you know we’re all listed on the Committee page of the website, under About?
YOU MUST RSVP BY COMMENTING ON THIS PAGE TO ATTEND. Location is flexible (home visits are possible, too) and will be updated when there are 2 or more RSVPs. Time is tentative and flexible to some extent as well. Bring your smart phone, tablet or laptop if you own them.
Every month you will see a How to use BrisLETS & CES training session on somewhere in the city-wide area.
11:00AM – 12:00PM – General Meeting. To download the agenda Click Here. See Constitution update and name change for details on the first item of New Business. See Logo and Branding for details on the other items. Check the latest news items for updates.
Click Here to download a proxy form if you can’t make it to the meeting.
BrisLETS is all about trading: buying and selling goods and services for LETS units rather than spending the Aussie Dollar.
More information: www.brislets.com or check out our facebook page.
March
Join the community trading day,
BrisLETS has been helping the community since 1988.
PROGRAMME:
12pm Shared Lunch (Please bring something to share)
1pm – 4pm Trading
WORKSHOPS/TALKS:
1:00pm – 1:45pm. BrisLETS News: Volunteer opportunities, logo, marketing. Conference Rm. Simon.
2:00pm – 2:45pm Story-telling. Theme: Pleasure and pain. Conference Room. Jenn.
SERVICES:
Don’t forget if you can offer a Service at our Trading Days, let us know if you are coming and we can give you some free advertising in the events update email. Please contact the events team at least 7 days before the date of the market.
GOODS:
If you have any goods that you would like to advertise in the events update email.
Please contact the events team at least 7 days before the date of the market.
HINT: Smart traders browse our lists of offers & wants in advance and arrange to meet the trader at the meeting to hand over the goods.
What to bring to this trading event:
Friends
Trading record sheet and pen or data-enabled smartphone, tablet or laptop to put through transactions immediately
Goods to trade
Promotional material of services you are offering
$20 joining fee if you don’t yet have a BrisLETS account, CLICK HERE to download a membership form.
BrisLETS is all about trading: buying and selling goods and services for LETS units rather than spending the Aussie Dollar.
More information: www.brislets.com or check out our facebook page.
This month’s meeting will serve for both March and April because we have a lot on in March and it’s a great opportunity to mix it in with a much larger crowd of locals at St David’s Community Center Autumn Festival.
We will focus on promotion to non-members, but having a lovely display of enticing goods, beautifully presented and packaged, and a massage chair. These will be mainly for show as they will only be available in Units. Be ready to talk about BrisLETS with locals who may not know about CES/LETS. Most of all, we need volunteers on a roster. Contact Simon.
7:30AM – SET UP
8:30AM Promoting BrisLETS to locals. Learn how to trade using the mobile website (you need a smart phone) and then be ready to show others. There will be a tablet and a laptop to show how it all works, so this is a good opportunity for you to brush up on that as well.
10:00AM? Presentation by Simon in the Harmony Room?
11:30 Brunch. There is usually food for sale at the festival and it’s good to support them, so only bring something specific to your diet.
1:00 Bump out – please assist.
Park and enter on Rookwood Avenue. It’s a great venue; street visibility, indoor hall with urn, tv screen & piano and out door area so all weather, playground for kids.
Ph: 07 3274 3240
Fax: 07 3272 7150
Email: stdavidsnc@bigpond.com
Any member can create a Hub event like this and have it advertised in the Events Update email and on the website. This usually 1st-Sunday-of-the-month event can be replicated by any BrisLETS member by logging into CES and finding your neighbours in the Members Map.
Are you at a loss using our websites
and understanding how to trade with Units?
Get some free tuition, in person, from your CES Website Administrator, Simon Cole.
- What is the difference between brislets.com and communityexchange.net.au?
- Did you know you can use your smartphone to do a transaction in less than 30 seconds?
- When should you do mixed offerings ($s & Us)? How much should the $s be?
- How do you decide to gift instead of trade?
- Bring your own issues and get them answered!
- Did you know you can see what new volunteer opportunities there are on the website? And a full job description?
- Did you know you can earn Units ‘volunteering’ – and do you know HOW they are rewarded?
- Who is working to keep BrisLETS going? What are the Admins, Committees and Teams? Did you know we’re all listed on the Committee page of the website, under About?
YOU MUST RSVP BY COMMENTING ON THIS PAGE TO ATTEND. Location is flexible (home visits are possible, too) and will be updated when there are 2 or more RSVPs. Time is tentative and flexible to some extent as well. Bring your smart phone, tablet or laptop if you own them.
Every month you will see a How to use BrisLETS & CES training session on somewhere in the city-wide area.
The Learning Circle Think Tank
BrisLETS’ think-tank for mutual credit aficionados – currently including Paul Wildman, Simon Cole, Ishka McNulty and others will meet again and choose from the following topics to discuss:
- is there an infinite supply of Units, or must they balance out? (we started discussing this in February)
- how is mutual credit different to cryptos and fiat debt-based money?
- managing a CES/LETS exchange (Skype/Zoom with fnqces Bel Moore)
- CES traders as members of an incorporated exchange
- maintaining membership/accounts
- how is mutual credit valued and how do we make it valuable?
- NENA (New Economy Network Australia) membership for BrisLETS – pros & cons
RSPV by commenting below or texting me (Simon). If fewer than 3 RSVPs are received, the event will be cancelled.
Please read more about the Think Tank before joining a meeting. A full explanation and suggestions for basic research are here under our About menu.
The Think Tank meets bi-monthly. It has no power in any CES or LETS exchange and is informal so there is no record-keeping in this group. It compliments the CES Australia Administration group (Annette Loudon, Bel Moore and Tania Brookes) which takes care of Australia’s national web hosting and international relations with overseas exchanges (Tim Jenkins and Matthew Slater).
Are you at a loss using our websites
and understanding how to trade with Units?
Get some free tuition, in person, from your CES Website Administrator, Simon Cole.
- What is the difference between brislets.com and communityexchange.net.au?
- Did you know you can use your smartphone to do a transaction in less than 30 seconds?
- When should you do mixed offerings ($s & Us)? How much should the $s be?
- How do you decide to gift instead of trade?
- Bring your own issues and get them answered!
- Did you know you can see what new volunteer opportunities there are on the website? And a full job description?
- Did you know you can earn Units ‘volunteering’ – and do you know HOW they are rewarded?
- Who is working to keep BrisLETS going? What are the Admins, Committees and Teams? Did you know we’re all listed on the Committee page of the website, under About?
YOU MUST RSVP BY COMMENTING ON THIS PAGE TO ATTEND. Location is flexible (home visits are possible, too) and will be updated when there are 2 or more RSVPs. Time is tentative and flexible to some extent as well. Bring your smart phone, tablet or laptop if you own them.
Every month you will see a How to use BrisLETS & CES training session on somewhere in the city-wide area.
Think Tank & Learning Circle
BrisLETS’ think-tank for mutual credit aficionados – currently including Paul Wildman, Simon Cole, Ishka McNulty and others will meet again and choose from the following topics to discuss:
- is there an infinite supply of Units, or must they balance out? (we started discussing this in February)
- how is mutual credit different to cryptos and fiat debt-based money?
- managing a CES/LETS exchange (Skype/Zoom with fnqces Bel Moore)
- how is mutual credit valued and how do we make it valuable?
- NENA (New Economy Network Australia) membership for BrisLETS – pros & cons
RSPV by commenting below or texting me (Simon). If fewer than 3 RSVPs are received, the event will be cancelled.
Please read more about the Think Tank before joining a meeting. A full explanation and suggestions for basic research are here under our About menu.
The Think Tank meets bi-monthly. It has no power in any CES or LETS exchange and is informal so there is no record-keeping in this group. It compliments the CES Australia Administration group (Annette Loudon, Bel Moore and Tania Brookes) which takes care of Australia’s national web hosting and international relations with overseas exchanges (Tim Jenkins and Matthew Slater).
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