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Re: [jox] Mission statement (was: Request for comments)



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mathieu: I'd be happy to be a reviewer,

Michel

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Mathieu O'Neil <mathieu.oneil anu.edu.au>wrote:

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Hi

Regarding an opinion opposed to the editorial line - there is no line so
far. Like StefanMn said, if someone advocated a POV that was fundamentally
opposed to peer production that might be problematic but I think that is
unlikely to happen. In any case to safeguard the pluralism of views I think
dialogue and a case-by-case approach would work best (if someone makes a
well-structured argument that someone else on the team disagrees with they
can always write a rebuttal).

cheers
Mathieu

ps. Michel, you did not indicate whether you wanted to be a reviewer...

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From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 gmail.com>
Date: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:01 pm
Subject: Re: [jox] Mission statement (was: Request for comments)
To: journal oekonux.org

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I agree with mathieu synthesis ...

(though I still like the concept of pluralism to indicate the
multiplicityof perspectives that Athina calls for)

I also reiterate my proposal for the double structure, i.e. beta
publicationof drafts, followed by official volume publication at
regular intervals.

Michel

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mathieu O'Neil
<mathieu.oneil anu.edu.au>wrote:

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Hi all

By all means keep up the attacks, greeks! :-)

I think the mission statement is starting to look fine. My
simplified> suggestion is:

"This journal is dedicated to the critical study of peer production,
understood as a mode of self-organized 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 of
the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Through the analysis of the
forms and
operations of peer producing communities in contemporary
capitalist society,
the journal aims to to open up new perspectives on the
implications of peer
production for social change."

What we could have below this short para. it is a list of
possible themes
that we would be interested to receive submissions on as such as:

- peer production and expertise
- peer production of hardware
etc

Concerning the organisational aspects, I think we need a
balance between
the 'classical' approach of Athina and the 'grassroots /
fanzine' approach
of George.

I  think it is essential to have a full list of the
editorial committee's
names and "institutional affiliation" - it will be obvious
that not everyone
is an academic, that's the specificity and interest of this
project in my
view. We do need some clear commitments from people though.

 So far there is me, StefanMn, and StefanMz. So: George,
Athina, Michel:
can we put your names as reviewers / scientific committee
members? Anyone
else interested?

Since I volunteered to be editor or maintainer I accept that
it is my
responsibility to coordinate articles and obtain reviews - if
anyone wants
to help please do, I expect that tasks will build up as the project
advances. There is of course a heavy web component - if as
StefanMz said the
site is part of [ox] then that could simplify things (or not
if there are
too many technical integration issues). I also mention this in
the context
of the "two track"model of article development evoked
previously (email
threads getting mixed up, sorry).

Alternatively the journal site could be just an archive. It
might also be
good if the journal had its own address / url - better visibility?

cheers,
mathieu

----- Original Message -----
From: Athina Karatzogianni <athina.k gmail.com>
Date: Friday, July 17, 2009 1:10 am
Subject: Re: [jox] Mission statement (was: Request for comments)
To: journal oekonux.org

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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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College of Arts and Social Science
The Australian National University

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http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

Volunteering at the P2P Foundation:
http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net -
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com

Monitor updates at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens

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