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JCOM special issue on User-led and peer-to-peer science

Via Coturnix at http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/03/the_new_issue_of_journal_of_sc.php

Issue available via http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/01

The new issue of Journal of Science Communication is now online (Open Access, so you can download all PDFs…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on March 24, 2010 at 5:34 — No Comments

A proposal for a World Day of Commons October 15, 2010!

Via Frédéric Sultan:

A proposal for a World Day of Commons October 15, 2010!

Following the Manifesto Reclam the Commons, we suggest organizing the first World Day of Commons on October 15,2010

This would be a day of public actions, presentations, debates, workshops, shows, meetings,…around the world to share the visions and the practices of Commons and to make them known to the…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on March 23, 2010 at 9:54 — No Comments

A blog about P2P and Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens will be in the Netherlands coming Tuesday and will deliver a speech at the ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. See the invitation here. You're welcome to participate.

As an introduction I've written a blog (in Dutch) about P2P and tried to connect some of the P2P ideas to the concept of… Continue

Added by Davied on March 19, 2010 at 7:54 — No Comments

Peer-to-Peer Collaboration and Networked Learning, Special issue of E-Learning and Digital Media (CFP)

Via Daniel Araya:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Peer-to-Peer Collaboration and Networked Learning

Editors of a Special Issue

Michael A. Peters, University of Illinois

Daniel Araya, University of Illinois

Developments in information and communications networks not only define globalization but are

changing the format and density of the flows of knowledge, research and

creativity. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have become a particularly important

factor in… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 17, 2010 at 22:13 — No Comments

Exploring Produsage: A Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (CFP)

Via Axel Bruns:

Exploring Produsage

A Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Call for papers

The concept of produsage points to the shift away from conventional producer/consumer relationships, and highlights the more fluid roles of users and contributors within social media environments. Participants in open source projects, in Wikipedia, in YouTube and Second Life are no longer merely consuming or using preproduced material, but… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 15, 2010 at 5:31 — No Comments

New book: DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

Via Anya Kamenetz :

"I am writing to let you know about my new book, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, which appears in April from Chelsea Green publishers and is available for pre-order here:

http://www.amazon.com/DIY-Edupunks-Edupreneurs-Transformation-Education/dp/1603582347

Pre-ordering it is helpful for the sales… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 9, 2010 at 13:49 — No Comments

Forban: A gossip like P2P Protocol

Via Alexandre Dulaunoy t

Hi All,

I made some experiments for a having a simple gossip-like p2p protocol

in my local area network. The free software implementation is called Forban :

http://www.foo.be/forban/

Forban works independently from Internet and use only the local area

capabilities to announce, discover, search or share files. Forban relies on

HTTP and he is opportunistic (meaning replicating any… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 8, 2010 at 8:57 — No Comments

Michael Geist on The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

There will soon be a big new beast in the IP jungle. And while the creature comes with the seemingly innocuous acronym of ACTA, cyber activists and copyright mavens fear that it will pave the way for a Global DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) that will significantly impact on…

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Added by Richard Poynder on March 8, 2010 at 0:59 — 3 Comments

Work, Play & Boredom An ephemera conference at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 5-7 May 2010

Via Pat Kane:

Work, Play & Boredom…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on March 6, 2010 at 10:31 — No Comments

Open Access linked to Alabama shooting

Some Open Access (OA) advocates shocked by the shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) may not be aware of the OA link to the story: The last paper authored by Amy Bishop — the researcher charged with killing three of her colleagues – was published in the International Journal of General Medicine, an OA journal published by New Zealand-based OA publisher Dove Medical Press. Since Bishop cited three of her teenage daughters as co-authors… Continue

Added by Richard Poynder on February 27, 2010 at 2:03 — No Comments

Breizh Entropy Congress in Rennes, Bretagne: inter-disciplinary event focuses on free (as in freedom) creations and culture

Via Valerie Dagrain <vdagrain@free.fr>

Date: 2010/2/26

Subject: peer production (pour info)/ Breizh Entropy Congress april 15-17 2010 Rennes, France ; cfp to forward

To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com>

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BREIZH ENTROPY CONGRESS

April 15-17 2010, Rennes, France

Call…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 26, 2010 at 0:54 — No Comments

a Flickr group call Sharing Illustrated to create a pool of Creative Commons images, photos, and videos that anyone can use to talk about sharing, peer-to-peer production

Via: Neal Gorenflo

I've started a Flickr group call Sharing Illustrated to create a pool of Creative Commons images, photos, and videos that anyone can use to talk about sharing, peer-to-peer production,

alternative economy, and the commons. The idea is to empower

communicators of all stripes with high quality images about sharing.

You're invited to join the group and share your images. It's really easy. First,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 24, 2010 at 11:25 — No Comments

Innovating through commons use: community-based enterprise

Via Erling Berge and Frank van Laerhoven

New Issue Announcement : Volume 4, Issue 1| June 2010

Editors-in-Chief Frank van Laerhoven and Erling Berge are pleased to

announce the publication of Volume 4, Issue 1 (2010) of the International

Journal of the Commons.

We invite you to visit our website at:…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 24, 2010 at 8:32 — No Comments

Towards a P2P Seed Bank?

Via Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado:

Hi there,

First of all, we would like to thank you indeed for your hard work

promoting the Commons and P2P forms of production and organisation. We

are the group behind ourproject.org and we would like to give some

diffusion to some of our P2P initiatives. We believe that the P2P

Foundation Wiki is the appropriate forum to do so.

In the first place, we launched an organic seed bank where we would like

to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 23, 2010 at 17:56 — No Comments

CFP: Activists' Engagements in the Creation of Alternative, Autonomous, Radical and Independent Media.

Via Laurence Cox:

Interface ? A Journal For and About Social Movements…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 23, 2010 at 7:57 — No Comments

Global P2P governance experiment in development.

Came across a mathematical equation in 1976 that suggests the possibility of a coordinated bartering and sharing network that could supplant nation states and corporations as the chief governing experiments on the planet.

Our small all volunteer team is now most seriously considering using Clojure to make the initial experiment. It will be a scaled anonymity P2P VPN that is essentially chained conferences, the demographics of which are patterned to provide comprehensive coverage of… Continue

Added by Tom Loeber on February 19, 2010 at 5:01 — No Comments

Introducing the OpenKollab Ecosystem Pooled Fund: a collaborative approach to funding early stage social ventures

Via Suresh Fernando:

OpenKollab's is developing infrastructure and processes to support its larger

mission of Connecting Projects To Solve Massive Social Problems. In

service of this larger end, we are developing the Ecosystem Pooled Fund initiative,

the objective of which is to develop a model to provide financing… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 18, 2010 at 8:04 — No Comments

Conference on Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility

06 September 2010 — 10 September 2010 European Science Foundation

Conference on Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 17, 2010 at 14:30 — No Comments

Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Symposium

Via Ralph Morelli:

We invite you to attend the 2nd annual HFOSS Symposium (HFOSS 2010… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 17, 2010 at 7:37 — No Comments

Open Access Publishing Bogeymen

In their efforts to derail the onward march of Open Access (OA) opponents have conjured up a number of bogeymen about Open Access publishing. First, they maintain, asking authors to pay to publish could turn scholarly publishing into a vanity press.Second, they say, OA publishing will in any case inevitably lead to lax or… Continue

Added by Richard Poynder on February 14, 2010 at 3:25 — No Comments