Hi I'm Emilio and I've been active in the chapter since the very begining in Spain. Right now what I'm doing in the movement is helping in any kind of informatic tools and recently I joined the moderation team also I was doing communication tasks between different provinces, we were travelling with another company It was to meet other people and make the whole hispanic community be closer with latinamerican chapters What I like about resource based economy especially is the most logical solution to problems but I didn't make such a deep approach So finding someone else who did it, saved me lots of work It's the most logical way, if you see throughout the history, the only good things we have Is technology, and the use of technology is completely corrupt and manipulated So it's a redirection of our efforts and today's technology To a human and symbiotic use with the earth It's the best solution, I know no other one. Though maybe someday another one appears, which would be well received and accepted by the movement But it still is the only realistic one Spanish chapter started Through a very casual blog People who always wanted to meet but didn't know how Came to Valencia, then others met us. In other provinces like Barcelona Then lots of people, next big group would be Madrid but it was very curious to see how the people didn't know the ideas but wanted to meet speak about it, get more contacts with people thinking the same It grew too fastly In a very short time we were making huge events and didn't know what we would do if the growth kept up that way Now we're on many projects Real, virtual We're abandoning diffussion lately but the projects are diffused by themselves so we're doing 2 jobs in 1 For the future I see i hope to keep up, but with more people and less time invested in the matrix but more in open source technology to share among us and get independent from the system The situation in Spain was predictable long ago and it's a clear example of the monetary system the stages, the way it works the way people behave it's very predictable though there was people who couldn't predict it, it really was It was not because it not being so clear but because it was the repeat of the same paradigm in other places The actual situation is difficult, people is leaving Spain long ago was a country that sent emigrants at its best economic time, received inmigrants and it's now sending emigrants again, mainly to Germany and other european countries Now the cycles are getting shorter so in 5-6 years we'll have more inmigration, and the cycle would start again until the game stops and they make up something else the truth is a very black future, but just like any other country, it's just that this is the very first european country starting from the south, from which it will expand towards the north What was seen about the monarchy and the government about trying a change in the situation is clearly an example of how politics are futile According to what I heard and know the intention of the president were not at all similar to the actions he made lately So even if they are honest politians there's no way to change the paradigm, even if the president wanted to set an RBE he cannot fight against great companies and banks and not even take decisions, since he is not the one who rules and the king... he is there to earn money, nothing else so even if he was so honest and wanted to a real change, he cannot, not him or any other politian I see the transition just like many other people I know and met in Bratislava open source, share technology, and create abundance and independence from the system through these technologies to be step by step more independent and not depend from big service companies and stupid products Cyclic consumption, don't know how to say it in spanish So after being far from these services being every time more free, we would reduce our working time and dedicate more time to this so it would be an exponential growth, as exposed in the technological theory, and the conciousness of the people My message: You don't need to be more surrounded, but better surrounded.