<aside> <img src="/icons/report_blue.svg" alt="/icons/report_blue.svg" width="40px" /> ~~To reserve your place, please fill in the booking form and contribute €250.~~ (You can change the suggested contribution to Open Collective so that the total amount is €250. )

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LOCATION Hike Bike Twike Grote Steenweg 44 B-3400 Ezemaal (LANDEN) Belgium

Note: You must bring your own sleeping bag or sleeping sheet, and pillow case. If this is not possible for you, please let us know in the Telegram group chat.

Travel: Take the train to Ezemaal Station either from Brussels Centraal or Liege-Guillemins and it is a very short walk from the train station. [Map]

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<aside> <img src="/icons/calendar_green.svg" alt="/icons/calendar_green.svg" width="40px" /> DATES Arrive from 2pm, Sunday June 30th, 2024 Leave around 6pm Thursday, July 4th. Many of us will take a train to #CoFi Liege which starts the next day!

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<aside> <img src="/icons/currency-coin_green.svg" alt="/icons/currency-coin_green.svg" width="40px" /> COST Full ticket: €250 including meals & accommodation Day drop in: €35 including meals.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/downward_blue.svg" alt="/icons/downward_blue.svg" width="40px" /> BOOKING FORM The retreat is now fully booked. You may attend during the day, or arrange nearby accommodation.

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Thanks to Ledgerloops, Informal Systems, One Project, **Holochain, EthicHub** and Breadchain!

<aside> 💡 Are you interested in sponsoring the retreat? Contact us at [email protected]!

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Introduction

<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_green.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_green.svg" width="40px" /> We need to re-organise work, wages, cooperation, food, community, procurement, health, education, even government. Financial innovation is a critical part of the solution, re-imagining investment, ownership, pensions, money, cooperation, supply chains and resilience.

There are too many ideas to process, it can be hard to look beyond our specialist bubbles and impossible to coordinate, to agree, to plan.

#CoFi is a space for meeting, knowing each other, building trust, cooperation and hopefully, building power. In our first gathering we showcased payment systems architectures, and how credit is created and circulates and extinguished within them.

But finance is just numbers if it doesn't serve the real economy. In this #CoFi Retreat, we will tackle questions such as:

• Where are all the local communities ready for financial innovation?
• What do those groups need?
• How can we escape the paradigm of competing with each other?
• How can we redeploy resources towards what is working?

If you are still reading, you're invited! We will welcome practitioners not only in payments tech, but in community building and community finance, food networks, barter networks, business networks and everything adjacent! Come for 4 nights or drop in for a day or two. Everyone will be expected to participate in cooking and cleaning, which helps make it more affordable.

Don’t Dally! There are only 30 beds, and some will be taken up by the organisers (see below) and other leaders in the field such as Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics, and founders of Holochain!

If you can’t make it, or even if you can, consider relocating with us to #CoFi Liege which starts the day after!

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<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Are you interested in sponsoring the retreat? Contact us at [email protected]!

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<aside> <img src="/icons/link_gray.svg" alt="/icons/link_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Useful links

• What is CoFi?
• Join our Telegram channel
• First CoFi Gathering recap
• First CoFi Gathering materials </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/book_gray.svg" alt="/icons/book_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Reading List

• Solidarity wins, by Stephanie Rearick
• The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, by INCITE!
• Constucting Wystems of Exchange by Matthew Slater </aside>

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Who Are The Organizers?

We have been leaders in the field of complementary currencies for many years.

• Matthew Slater co-founded Community Forge and continues to provide software for, which hosts web sites for hundreds of LETS groups. See his web site.
• Stephen DeMeulenaere originally from Canada and based in Asia has been active for over 30 years in the field in numerous, mostly 3rd world countries, and for many years kept the definitive global database of complementary currencies and library literature, and has also worked extensively in the blockchain space. See his profile.
• Crypto Commons Association co-organised the first CoFi Gathering in May 2023, and generally promotes the development of Crypto Commons/Commons Economy infrastructures, through contents, research (Check out the Commons Economy Roadmap) and events.

Matthew Slater, Stephen DeMeulenaere, CCA

Thanks to Ledgerloops, Informal Systems, One Project, **Holochain, EthicHub** and Breadchain!