Here are more resources on the Open Money concept, technologies and projects.
These are the tags I use on delicious to store and organize all the links about Open Money and Local Currencies:
http://delicious.com/openp2pdesign/open_p2p+money
http://delicious.com/openp2pdesign/open_p2p+open_money
http://delicious.com/openp2pdesign/open_p2p+local_currency
Some Twitter users you should follow:
http://twitter.com/openmoney
http://twitter.com/metacurrency
http://twitter.com/newcurrency
http://twitter.com/thetransitioner
http://twitter.com/fer_ananda
http://twitter.com/jfnoubel
http://twitter.com/flowplace
http://twitter.com/myrfa
http://twitter.com/zippy314

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Currency, Economy, Locality, Open Money

Beside Open Design, Open Hardware, Open Manufacturing, there is another path the Open Everything phenomenon is taking: Open Money. Although the Open Money projects are in their early steps, they represent a very important strategic and metadesign move in order to enable the spreading of community-based open and p2p organizational forms.
The open money project aims [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Currency, Economy, Enabler, Locality, Meta-design, Money, Open Money, Peer-to-Peer, Platform

Openmoko: Neo1973

We can say that these days the first mass product completely open source has been distributed. Therefore, this is the first example of a real Open Design, not tied to individual experiments or niche markets (albeit very important): the first example of how open source philosophy can be adopted not only in areas different [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community-Based Services, Free Software, Mobile, Open Source, Product Design

Xara

While surfing through my favourtie websites I found on linux.com a very interesting article: Lessons learned from open source Xara’s failure, written by Nathan Willis.
For us, it is intersting twice: as Xara is an open source / proprietary vector drawing software (and therefore could be interesting for designers), and because it explains which errors should [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Open Source