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Hi All
I like George's statement I would change a couple of things
(sorry for the
attack of the greeks!) and add to the discussion on the
operational side of
things
---This journal is dedicated to the critical study of peer
production, by
which term we understand a mode of self-organized instead of
managedproduction in which participation is voluntary and predicated
on the
self-selection of tasks, as for example observed in the collaborative
development of free software projects or wikipedia. The aim of
the journal
is, through research and analysis of the forms, functions
add: and
[self-aggregating] communities, as michel suggested of peer
production in
contemporary capitalist society, to open up new perspectives on its
implications for social change
As far as the rest of the dicussion goes, I think it is
reasonable to have
some structure in the review and editorial process, nevertheless
one that is
inclusive and not closed or confined to the p2p or oekonux
approaches and or
communities.
An editor and a maintainer are not exactly the same things. We
need quite a
few maintainers to do administrative stuff primarily also web
related stuff,
editors to review and assign to reviewers, editorial asisstants type
thing to keep track of the authors and corrections/deadlines and
of course a
list of reviewers (which is quite easy to establish). The
individuals that
would like to get involved in the editorial side and reviewing
can easily
declare themselves, the biggest conern is to have maintainers
committed to
cover admin and editorial assistants to chase up authors -- the
legowrk in
other words.
Also, I would like to draw your attention on a significant
matter. If this
is a journal of critical study of peer production, we should
more than
encourage people that deviate form the established networks and
orthodoxiesespecially to join us and publish in this journal. In
my experience a lot of
colleague's work remains unpublished when it is critical of the
journal'seditors or or a dissenting voice to the
politics/culture/ideology of the
journal. It is a shame, and we should make a point of changing
that. The
quality of a paper and the relevance of it are crucial, and not
so much
protecting our own or the reputations of others. This has never
happenedbetween our networks, and it should never happen with
this journal.
Cheers
Athina
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:43 PM, George N. Dafermos <
georgedafermos yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I also gave it a try in an attempt to synthesise the two
mission statements
into one. Basically I removed the terms I didn't like: semi-
scientific (what
does this really mean?), transdisciplinary (from what i know,
not even
academics like this term), pluralistic (I'd prefer libertarian or
participative or inclusive/open) and made some minor changes
here and
there....and so i got this:
---This journal is dedicated to the critical study of peer
production, by
which term we understand a mode of self-managed production in which
participation is voluntary and predicated on the self-
selection of tasks, as
for example observed in the collaborative development of free
software> projects or wikipedia. The aim of the journal is,
through research and
analysis of the forms and functions of peer production in
contemporary> capitalist society, to open up new perspectives on
its implications for
social change.---
To facilitate cross-comparison, here are the two previous mission
statements:
Mission statement 1
>This semi-scientific journal is dedicated to study peer
production.> >By peer production we understand economic
activities which include,
>production, openness and {are primarily done by
volunteers /
>external structural forces are absent / non-alienation}
such as Free
>Software or Wikipedia. Following the principles of peer
production> >ourselves we are interested in every field
where peer production
>plays a role. For this we welcome contributions from
classical> >science as well as from activists of all kinds
to foster the deeper
>understanding of this phenomenon and the political
implications it
>might have.
mission statement 2
This pluralistic and transdisciplinary research journal is
dedicated to
the critical study of peer production, i.e. the social and economic
production of value through self-aggregating communities in
every field
of human endeavour, with special interest for its inter-
relation with
markets and state forms.
Regards,
george
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