[P2P-F] couchsurfing becoming for-profit

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks Robin ...

in theory, a B Corporation is not such a bad thing, no, as it is and remains
dedicated to a social good?

Michel

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM, robin <robokow at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am happy this one didn't get done yet. Veit's rant on CS/Casey is
> personal (although a pretty interesting one) and at the same time Veit
> is just like a little Khadafi in relation to bewelcome.
>
> It's a long nasty history - the world of hospitality ;-)
>
>
> http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/09/26/wwwbewelcomeinfo-the-real-background/
> http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/category/networks/hospitality-club/
>
> Also, Veit's promise to release Hospitality Club code as open source
> or even as free is almost as old as the promise of having Couchsurfing
> registered as a tax-deductible non-profit (four years now).
>
> At the same time Hospitality Club is still a personal project/ not a
> registered organisation with no information about the flow of money.
>
> I've always compared HC as a dictorship, CS as a oligarchy and
> bewelcome as democracy.
>
> Robin
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Michel Bauwens
> <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
> > hi franco,
> >
> > can you republish this in our blog, see
> >
> http://volunteerwiki.hospitalityclub.org/couchsurfing-for-profit-business-now
> >
> > then, follow it up with some news and analysis on couchsurfing becoming a
> b
> > corporation?
> >
> > see my P2P-Travel tag in delicious for documentation,
> >
> > I Need some extra help for the blog right now, having reached the end of
> the
> > reserve buffer... the stay in bkk was very time intensive with no time
> for
> > internet ...
> >
> > thanks for the help!!
> >
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