<div dir="ltr">Dear P2P friends,<div><br></div><div>It has been a long time that I needed to do such an appeal, but a combination of unforeseen circumstances means I need to ask for assistance.</div><div><br></div><div>Administrative changes in 2 of the foundations that used to support us, means that 2015 will be rather problematic. I have a good agenda of lectures, but these were never enough to pay the bills.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem is rather acute right now. I am leaving for a 4 day belgian trip with about 50 Euro on my picket,but more seriously , I am leaving to Wisconsin on February 8 for 3 weeks without any short-term prospect of getting paid and thus of taking any money with me there. The necessity to replace a pair of broken glasses also looms large <g>.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are on this mailing list, you know my work, you know that I have consistently worked on expanding and catalysing p2p and commons practices, as well as their understanding. If you find this work important and appreciate it, now is a good time to show solidarity and to assist me in continuing it. This gives you a good record of my activities in the context of the P2P Foundation, see part 1 of <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/What_the_P2P_Foundation_Did_in_2014">http://p2pfoundation.net/What_the_P2P_Foundation_Did_in_2014</a></div><div><br></div><div>There are two things you can do.</div><div><br></div><div>One is the emergency funding. There is no easy way to do this as my Paypal account has been blocked for a number of years, so I can only give my Belgian account at the Belfius bank, <span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6666669845581px">BE91 0682 2166 9376</span></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px">Kevin in cc has the full details if you want to transfer money this way. I am looking for minimally EUR 2,000 but if possible, I am aiming for 6,000 so that I have a buffer. I am looking for gifts, but if you can give a loan, that is fine. I must be honest however, in that, always living with moderate and usually insufficient means, I have a bad record now of repaying loans on time.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px">I am also launching at the same time a longer term solution, i.e. through gratipay. The aim of gratipay is to create a minimum basic income that will allow me to brave the insecurity and irregularity of the income flow. Gratipay allows you to declare a regular support, per week or per month. My aim there is to achieve $300 per week, giving me a basic income of $1,200 per month</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px">My gratipay URL is here: <a href="https://gratipay.com/mbauwens/">https://gratipay.com/mbauwens/</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px">So if you are motivated to assist me with my work for the P2P Foundation, and in particular with the more short-term emergency, please do the following:</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px">* send a preferable round sum of support to my belgian account, say EUR 100 or EUR 250</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px">* declare any small regular sum that you willing to give, through my gratipay account,</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px">I needed to launch this fast and without much preparation due to the emergency, thanks for your understanding.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6666669845581px">Michel Bauwens<br clear="all"></span></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan" target="_blank">http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div>
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