Re: Business opportuities based on Free Software (was: Re: [ox-en] lovely ibm
- From: Michael Bouwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 03:11:33 -0700 (PDT)
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Franz,
I just subscribed you, and the address of the Encyclopedia is here:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Category:Encyclopedia
Please note that this is the most general encyclopedia, covering open, participatory, and commons-related processes. If you click on the Main Page of the wiki (p2pdfoundation.net), you will see that I have started creating specialized areas, such as 'P2P Learning Concepts', P2P IP Concepts etc... that reconfigure a selection of the same material, but with added intro pages.
Also, the third column, has not just the encyclopedia, but a who's who, a movements directory, and already very rich collection of specialized podcasts and directories.
Since you react with a certain enthusiasm, let me write this appeal. I would really appreciate assistance. This is not meant to be my personal resource, but a tool for everyone who sympathizes with the broad aims of a participatory society, i.e. a society with deeper participation in politics, and also an extension of autonomy and cooperation throughout the social field. It is not an exact copy of the Free Modes tendency, but pretty close, and it is agnostic in the sense that it does not preclude various visions to share their insights.
I think we really need such a collaborative resource where the multifold branches of the participator movement can document themselves and exchange insights.
I'm already using a lot of Oekonux generated material, transforming it into encyclopedia entries with a more longlasting life (as indeed: who goes into archives of a mailing list, not many people).
My wishlist is that the Oekonux list would not just discuss, but also share more resources, and I'm most willing to reformat them. But, this project is also going beyond my own capabilities to keep up.
It would be great to have people volunteering to 'maintain' a number of the specialized resources that we're building up. Why not create a 'Free Modes Concepts' page for example.
The way it works is that you just add a tag to an existing entry, or create a new one, or make an existing one better, and that you create a context around it, so that newcomers to the field may quickly find their way. Every contributor is of course recognized and attributed. I can explain to those who may not be familiar with a wiki, how easy these things are being done.
In many ways, what Franz and Stefan call "mirroring the
"image at large" of Free Production in all spheres of human activity" is what I (and some others, see the Frappr map on our blog) are already doing. But of course, it is far from being done (will never be done of course, in the context of such a dynamic movement) in any comprehensive way, though there are thousands of pages already.
For those who are less familiar, please do take some time and look at:
The Foundation for P2P Alternatives is at http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Main_Page
P2P News Archive at http://integralvisioning.org/index.php?topic=p2p ;
The Foundation?s Blog is at http://blog.p2pfoundation.com/
I will add Franz's three-phased interpretation to the peer production entry.
The password is indeed necessary, when we started, we were immedialely swamped with porn wiki spam and 300 fake subscribers (robot spam generators).
Anyone who needs a password and id, just ask. It's just meant to keep out spammers.
Michel
Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada reflex.at> wrote: >This is a great introduction to peer production Franz! I'll mention it in
P2P News 128 and have integrated some of your arguments in the
encyclopedia.
Can you guide me to ecncyclopedia and also subscibe me to P2P news? did
not know something like this existed and maybe others on the list did not
either. Let me just remark that I until this moment did not have an idea
of the extent and the quality of the work that you are doing and I would
like to congratulate you.
By the way it is exactly this what I am missing in the Oekonux community.
Neither is there a newsletter providing us with the weekly or mothly
insight about the latest developments in FreeModes, as I use to call our
new modes of production, neither there is emphasis on cherishing and
expanding the initial work done by Stefan Merten in terms of mirroring the
"image at large" of Free Production in all spheres of human activity.
People that are just on the list without doing something together will end
up wasting their time in the way we now can observe in the German list. As
long as Oekonux had tasks, it worked well. I think it is not justified to
say "people have their tasks outside the list and here they just discuss".
It is alienating and frustrating.
Of course part of this is maintaining open community space where there an
be reflection of identity and developments.
For example, I wonder if the most important argument of my Rome speech is
accepted:
I claimed that there are basically three different modes of - yes, call it
peer production (not p2p) for a moment:
1. The classical "prosumer mode", in which everybody is working basically
for themselves in using and customizing productive abilities created or
reinforced by industrial products that enable people do use "embodied
potentials" of information and automation. Alvin Toffler has discovered
that in the eighties, but only Shosanna Zuboff recently formulated that
this will result in a "copernican shift" where the value-creation in the
classical sense is replaced by the support economy.
2. The "swarm mode" in which people are loosely aggregated in doing
things, either for themselves (ebay,musicsharing) or for an external task
that uses the "least effort" way (Seti home and successors)
3. The "community mode", in which the team up in new forms of voluntary
social organisation. (classical example Free Software).
The interesting thing is that this three modes are pretty separated, but
there is a "hidden continuum" structurally connecting them, they become
"mutual enablers".
So if we explain and analyse it to the business world and ourselves in the
best way, we will be able to really "surf the third wave". And that means
being part of it, serving it, partnering with it.
Perhaps you could have a look at the
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Global_Villages entry?
I like that you twin GVs with the Hannover principles. Thats good and I
will use them.
Its pretty deplorable that one needs a password to edit, but thats the way
it is ;-)
Feel free to suggest any changes and additions. I particularly would be
interested in a bibliography to add on,
I wish I had time to do that research, maybe in summer
Are you familiar with the work of Ezio Manzini on Multi-local Societies?
no. please explain the concept!
Franz
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