Re: [ox-en] CouchSurfing, and the Center for Adventure Economics
- From: "Dante-Gabryell Monson" <dante.monson gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:58:17 +0100
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Hi Franz ( cc: mailing list )
Sounds Great
I d also like to emphasize , as mentionned at the end of Kasper's mail ,
this collective we are holding in Germany during the whole month of July (
who is interested in participating? / passing by for a day or two? ) :
http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Detmold_Collective
, July 2007, close to Bielefeld
which could also be an opportunity to further discuss trust networks such as
couchsurfing
and the way we can further develop and integrate tools that are already
being worked on but also new ideas , facilitating gift
economics<http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Center_for_Adventure_Economics>,
and I hope also visualization of knowledge "objects" (? ) - also see
ReferenceMaps <http://oikoumene.coforum.net/wikka.php?wakka=ReferenceMaps>and
Visualization
of Networks <http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Visualization_of_Networks> ,
knowledge sharing and building / shared constructivist learning ,
lifestyles<http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Moving_from_free_software_to_free_life>,
etc
I also recommend the following gatherings:
in a few days in Nottingham , UK (organized by friends) :
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FourthKnowledgeLab
in the beginning of October 2007 , Lancaster , UK (organized by friends) :
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9
and Frankfurt , end of October 2007 ( just found out about this on the net)
:
I4: Interactivity / Information / Interfaces / Immersion
International Research Conference , (Frankfurt, Oct 24-26, 2007)
<http://www.rhizome.org/fp.rhiz?id=3280>
Greetings
Dante - http://oikoumene.coforum.net/DanteGabryell
On 2/10/07, Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada reflex.at> wrote:
Hi Kasper,
I like that way you capitalize on Wikipedia and run a POV wiki at the same
time. Great role model!
Besides Oekonux (what we did in Vienna -
http://de.wiki.oekonux.org/%C3%9Cbersicht_freier_Projekte-which should
migrate into http://de.wiki.oekonux.org/FreieModi] and P2P Foundation
this is the third attempt that I see to grab a birds-eye-view on the Free
Modes.
Wonder how this could be aggregated. I work in german sometimes on the
Oekonux Wiki to keep this intention of "documenting free modes" alive,
but I am feeling overwhelmed by the shere extent of the task (and other
things I do). And the more there is, the more you have to do research.
(see previous posting about fashion). I am not a friend of delicio.us and
tag aggregation, I love the wiki way. Hope there will be a convergence and
a useful encyclopedia. Yes, we could link things much better with
consistent pointers at Wikipedia (and connecting it with our own critical
reasearch).
Maybe you lead the way?
all the best
Franz Nahrada
From: <kasper.souren gmail.com>
I'm excited to see that Oekonux is still active. At OX-3 I spoke about
Wikiresearch
(calling myself Gunter van Aken). Since then I dropped out of my PhD, worked
4,5
months for Geekcorps in Mali, hitchhiked through Europe and South America,
worked for an NGO in Lima, Peru and...
Since August last year I have spent a lot of time on CouchSurfing, a
hospitality
exchange network. Right after the Wikimania in August 2006 I joined
the CS Collective
in Montreal and set up a wiki. Since then I've also started improving
the CS website.
I am pushing for a release of the software under a free license. We
just started a GPL
(side) project to make CouchSurfing accessible trough phones:
http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Phone_Network
And we're about to start a ride share system:
http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Rideshares
From http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Center_for_Adventure_Economics
We coin the term adventure economy to refer to a gift economy that is
pay-forward, in-person, global and among strangers. In any economy,
there are challenges in allocating resources effectively and avoiding
abuse, but these are of special concern in non-market economies among
strangers, where we don't have the information mechanisms of the price
system ([1], [2]) nor of wikipedia:social relations, and we are also
missing the risk-reduction mechanisms of contracts. In this group we
develop the allocation and risk-reduction mechanisms for CouchSurfing,
an adventure economy.
Also check out:
* http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Moving_from_free_software_to_free_life
*
http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Motivations_for_a_non-market%2C_pay-it-forward_global_system
* http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Detmold_Collective, July 2007, close
to Bielefeld
* http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Beautiful_social_acts
Kasper
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