Macpuffins Cape Breton Community Classifieds

In the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, we wound up delaying the launch of the MacPuffins blockchain back in January, and in light of the strengthening... i hope this ok to post here... just delete it if its inappropriate... just prior to this pandemic starting up in january, id been working on a community currency project for cape breton with a strong emphasis on civic engagement, volunteerism and buy local campaigns, all neatly running on blockchain technology. we started to build MacPuffins in response to the economic outlook published by the CBRM last summer, and modeled everything on building strong networking and setting up a robust suite of services to provide the local small and home business owners easy access to participation. one of the sites i built for the project as an ancillary service is an ersatz kijiji sortakinda subdomain of the main project website. its basically empty right now, but i was thinking that it might serve as a convenient hub for organizing, providing and requesting community mutual aid services during the coronavirus crisis. it might be more efficient for folks to put requests and needs and offers to help in specific categories rather than having to scroll thru a long page of conversations. https://classifieds.macpuffins.com its set up for log-ins using facebook and twitter accounts, and ill work on setting up the site-specific log-ins as well. i copied out and adapted "proper mutual aid protocols" from some of the european groups that are springing up and are very specific and informative that are on the Mutual Aid FAQ page. (https://classifieds.macpuffins.com/index.php/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-community-mutual-aid-through-macpuffins-classifieds/) There are a lot of Capers self-isolating because of returnng from elsewhere, due to immuno-compromised and long-term health situations, or are members of vulnerable demographics such as the elderly and those struggling below the poverty line as it is. They need shopping done, prescriptions picked up, sidewalks shoveled, food delivered, and for many.. just a phone call and simple conversation. COVID-19 is bringing communities together by prioritizing simple compassion. We began developing MacPuffins with the idea of helping Cape Breton stand on it's own feet again, without having to fight for scraps of funding from Halifax. This crisis has only accentuated that need. If anyone has any questions or wants to help administer the MacPuffins Classifieds site as a community mutual aid project, please send me a an email ([email protected]) (https://macpuffins.com) (https://classifieds.macpuffins.com)

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