[ox-en] keimform.de: Hiddinghausen talks, part 1: An integrated collection of free design
- From: Christian Siefkes <christian siefkes.net>
- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:53:11 +0200
Hi all,
I've now started documenting the recent Hiddinghausen workshop on the peer
economy in the Keimform blog. Here's the start of the first article:
As announced in the German part of this blog, a weekend workshop on
peer production and the peer economy took place during the last weekend
(29-31 August) in the nice little town of Hiddinghausen in the German
Ruhr Area. A detailed three-part report on the workshop, which was a
fully self-organized event with about 30 participants, is available in
German. The first part of the workshop was dedicated to my proposal of
how to generalize the principles and practices of commons-based peer
production into a full-fledged peer economy; in the second part we
discussed ways of growing the range and versatility of peer production
that are possible here and now. For this English-language documentation
of the event, I’ll focus on this second part.
As a first initiative for facilitating the peer production of physical
goods and services, I proposed to set up a *"Universal Production Set"
(UPset):* an integrated collection of _free or open design._ The goal
of the UPset would be to provide designs, blueprints, and other
production know-how for all areas of life, but with a a special focus
on things that are essential for people to live a good life.
-> Continued at
http://www.keimform.de/2008/09/04/hiddinghausen-talks-1-free-design/
Comments welcome!
Best regards
Christian
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