From Smari~
* best new disruptive technology
* best new p2p media
* world-changer of the year

From Franz Nahrada


its really good to see how some ideas about the future create resonance. I
want to specify some points where I agree wuth you.

* Award for Outstanding Achievements in Peer Production

This is an activity which will force us naturally to deeply consider and
evaluate the things that are going on instead of looking at them
superficially. The main benefit is that we really have to challenge each
other on quality and useability of things and creations instead of
reproducing the developers mantra that "my stuff is simply the best
because I do it out of fun" (sorry, did not mean to hurt anybody!)

I suggest we create a Wiki page on this on either the Oekonux Wiki or the
P2P wiki and start filling in ideas.

** Categories
** Criteria
** Jury Members
** Sponsors
** Organizers


* Oekonux Website

Could be really a not only "critical", but also "in-depth" and
"subjective" resource about ongoing developments. It would be great to see
Oekonx 2.0 as an international editorial board of a resource collection
that is not primarily looking at facts (Michel does that now with great
diligence) but rather at evaluations of what is going on. Do not know how
Stefan feels about that, but I would see Oekonux 2.0 as an international
board of authors and theorists that discuss with each other. not primarily
on the mailing list, but in a more theoretical essayist way. My motto is:
Nobody looks at archives. Things gotta be ordered and reordered.

Keimform and P2P Foundation have filled our hunger for facts and factoids,
now its maybe time again for a more theoretical perspective and "grand
views", but also what you are asking for, the strategical and practical
discussions about how we can communicate to many many more people our
theoretical findings and political strategies.

Sorry for that not=related response, I created a separate page on this issue as a blogpost on the main page.

I have created this page, http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Awards, to consolidate the discussion and concensus about this project. If you want access for your own editing purposes, and do not have it yet, please let me know.

This is what we have so far:

Franz Nahrada has proposed, and is working, on getting funding for a series of P2P Awards.

Alex Rollin has started a page at the P2P Foundation's Ning community, to keep track of proposals, at http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/group/p2pawards/forum/topics/p2p-awar...

This wiki page will be used to consolidate the information that is collated in this way.


Contents
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* 1 Categories
o 1.1 List of Proposed Award Areas
o 1.2 Detailed proposals
* 2 Criteria
* 3 Jury Members
* 4 Sponsors
* 5 Organizers

[edit] Categories
[edit] List of Proposed Award Areas

* best contribution to distributed infrastructures
* best contribution to the development of free culture
* best free software project of the year
* best free hardware design project of the year
* most important contribution to fundamental open design issues
* best public support for p2p production
* best p2p/ community media project
* best p2p/ community money project
* best p2p/ community land project
* best new disruptive technology
* best new p2p media
* world-changer of the year


[edit] Detailed proposals

Franz Nahrada:

* Award for Outstanding Achievements in Peer Production

This is an activity which will force us naturally to deeply consider and evaluate the things that are going on instead of looking at them superficially. The main benefit is that we really have to challenge each other on quality and useability of things and creations instead of reproducing the developers mantra that "my stuff is simply the best because I do it out of fun" (sorry, did not mean to hurt anybody!)


[edit] Criteria
[edit] Jury Members
[edit] Sponsors
[edit] Organizers