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# Communities
Collective attempts at living a better life are numerous in human history. Today our attempts are still failing, but not primarily due to oppression, poverty or lack of time. The more important reason is us! We have internalized the patterns which limit cooperation. Some people are still building groups, but the groups are rarely tied to each other.
To build a network of cooperating groups we need a new culture. This begins with how we interact with each other. Instead of reproducing the patterns of abstract value, competition and functionalism we can do this:
* Listen to others (instead of trying to dominate the discourse).
* Encourage people with good ideas. ()
* Be reliable. (E.g., bring back books which you lent from somebody.)
* Build trust.
* Be helpful.
* When having a conflict, get help from the community.
* Keep perspective. Don’t get distracted with social drama.
* Be realistic. (Don’t replace reality with imagination.)
* Be utopian. (Trust yourself and others to put imagination into reality.)
* Be communicative. (Quantity doesn’t matter.)
* Be playful. (Freedom is the playfulness of thought and its transformation into action.)
All this needs to be learnt and requires [tools](tools.md).

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# Tools
Software or websites alone will not create a new culture. A lot more tools for interaction within groups are needed:
* other ways of communication
* different decision making (consensus oriented)
* more awareness, not trying to maximise political influence
* lots of experimenting and learning
* setting up explicit rules and reviewing them
Here is a collection of tools for meetings (which could use an update):
[Tools for meetings](http://www.autoorganisation.org/wiki/Coming_Together)
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Any community will develop rules of behaviour; if these rules shall not become oppressive, they must be discussed and decided upon. What is still missing is a **pool of rules** so that not every community has to reinvent the wheel.

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# Internet resources
Here is a list of internet resources focusing on sharing or moneyless life:
## Software
(All of the following tools are different from cosmopool regarding user empowerment, privacy or community structure.)
* [actsofsharing.com](http://actsofsharing.com/) easily share your stuff and borrow from friends (community oriented; communities must pay money)
* [darudar](http://darudar.org/) gift giving website popular in Russia
* [freecycle](http://www.freecycle.org/) simple mailing list (one per city) to announce gifts and wishes
* [freegle](http://ilovefreegle.org/) network of local groups to give stuff away, user base in mainly UK
* [sharedstuff.org](http://sharedstuff.org/) sharing platform (give + wish) emphasizing privacy
* [streetbank.com](http://www.streetbank.com/) neighborhood sharing platform, user base mainly in UK
* [onnepank.ee](http://onnepank.ee/) neighborhood sharing platform, user base mainly in Estonia
* [RetroShare](http://onnepank.ee/) Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform
* [Vivir Bien](http://vivirbien.mediavirus.org/) Mapping resources for a solidarity economy
* [WhyOwnIt](http://de.whyownit.com/) A smartphone app for lending, German language only
* [usetogether.com](http://www.usetogether.com/) "Safe & simple peer to peer sharing", requires Facebook account
* [neighborhoodfruit](http://neighborhoodfruit.com/) iPhone app for sharing edibles with neighbors
* [neighborgoods](http://www.neighborgoods.net/) Save money and resources by sharing stuff with your friends
* [ourgoods](https://ourgoods.org/) a barter network for the creative community
During the last years there were also others, which went offline, e.g.:
* NutziGems and whopools.net Conceptualized around 2003 and coded in PHP
* borrowme.com “Borrow, lend or rent anything with those you trust.”
* happy-lending.net active 2012, oriented towards pupils
* giftflow.org until July 2013, see review
Other attempts:
* people around [keimform.de](http://keimform.de/) had ideas (1, 2) for a system to share information on what you are searching
## Theory and other resources
* [lifewithoutmoney.info (FAQ)](http://www.lifewithoutmoney.info/faq)
* wikipedia on [gift economy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_Economy)
* Book: David Graeber: Debt – the first 5000 years
* [altruists.org](http://www.altruists.org/) — Re-Establishing Altruism As A Viable Social Norm
* [Anders leben wiki](http://www.autoorganisation.org/mediawiki/index.php/Anders_Leben) (german) — Collection of various practical ways to live without money
* [demonetize.it](http://demonetize.it/) — Scientific and public discourse on moneylessness
* [freeebay.net](http://web.archive.org/web/20120210214832/http://www.freeebay.net/site/) — Collection of various texts on internet and gift economy (mirror; original site was hijacked by spambots)
* [open source ecology](http://opensourceecology.org/)
* [gegenseitig.de](http://gegenseitig.blogsport.de/) (german) — Projektwerkstatt auf Gegenseitigkeit
* [sharewiki.org](http://sharewiki.org/) — a wiki about sharing
* [p2pfoundation.net](http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Resources?title=Category:Resources) — peer-to-peer tools and communities
* [ouishare.net](http://www.ouishare.net/) — "Connecting the collaborative economy", shows trends