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"Circular Multilateral Barter 1.0" Release

via Evgeni Pandurski :

We are pleased to announce the first stable release of our free (as in

freedom) software for peer-to-peer circular barter exchange. You can

download the source code at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmb/

Here is the first website running our software:

https://www.multiswap.net/about/

What is "Circular Multilateral Barter…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 26, 2010 at 5:56 — No Comments

Bringing the discussion on The Commons to Dakar In February 2011 at the World Social Forum

Via Frederic Sultan:

The World Social Forum and the World Forum on Science and Democracy will be two opportunities for the commoners to interact with other civic and social movements.

Discussion on the Commons in the World Forum on Science and Democracy (WFSD)

The World Forum on Science and Democracy (WFSD) will be held on February the 4th and 5th. Its objective is twofold : questioning the functioning of the scientific institutions and funding (science and technology… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 19, 2010 at 14:30 — No Comments

Networked utopias and speculative futures

Via Tiziana Terranova:

CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: Networked utopias and speculative futures

Editors: Susan Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller

http://fibreculturejournal.org/

abstract deadline: February 20, 2011

article deadline: May 30, 2011

publication aimed for: November,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 19, 2010 at 9:45 — 1 Comment

The full documentation of the International Commons Conference in Berlin

Via Silke Helfrich:

Dear ICC participants,

(including those who had to decline at the very last moment)

After more than two days of intense work and discussion, the International Commons Conference is over. But perhaps not really:

as some of you already may have noticed in their mailboxes, the conference may, in truth, be just beginning!

Before the next stage of the ICC begins, however, I want to say a few thank-yous:

Thank you so much for taking… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 18, 2010 at 14:41 — No Comments

Announcing the DYNDY monetary rhizome project

Via Jaromil:

I'm writing you to bring to your attention the public launch of DYNDY,

for now consisting of this website and various ongoing code

experiments http://dyndy.net

The launch was well followed by interest in the audience in Amsterdam

at the De Balie center for political discourse…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 18, 2010 at 14:36 — No Comments

Discussing Resistance to Debt as Political Strategy

via edufactory@listcultures.org

Presentation for the Round of Discussion on Debt

Last April, the conference in Minneapolis "Beneath the University, the Commons" launched a call for action against debt, the central tool of the ongoing crisis and financialization of our lives. The statement was discussed and approved in other activist encounters, for instance in May at the European meetings in Paris and Bologna. Now we want to build up a global campaign for a debt… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 14, 2010 at 4:52 — No Comments

CALL FOR PAPERS ON "PIRACY CULTURES"

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Arlene Luck <aluck@law.usc.edu>

Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:57 PM

Subject: [IJoC] Open Call for Papers—"Piracy Cultures"

To: aluck@law.usc.edu

Dear IJoC Readers,

+++OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS ON "PIRACY CULTURES" +++

An International Journal of Communication Special Section on “Piracy

Cultures” to be published in 2011.

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2011.

Manuel Castells, IJoC… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 11, 2010 at 9:28 — No Comments

Towards Permaculture Unconferences for p2p learning transfer

Via Nicholas Roberts:

The basic idea is to have regular meetups hosted at various

stakeholder locations, working toward hosting a Permaculture

Unconference in the Bay Area early in Spring 2011.

The tentative theme is Liberation Industrial Permaculture which would be a synthesis of

Grassroots organising, Worker-cooperatives, Open source appropriate

technology, Commons-based peer production. An emphasis on Pathways to

Sustainable Self-Governance i.e.… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 10, 2010 at 3:02 — No Comments

Overcoming the risks of economic and environmental collapse: new book from Feasta, Vesuvius

Via Dante Monson:

\Feasta is launching its new book, Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the risks of economic and environmental collapse, on Saturday, November 20th, in Dublin. Our most important book to date, it draws together many of the ideas our members have developed over the years and applies them to a single question - how can we bring the world out of the mess in which it finds itself?

Fleeing Vesuvius confronts this mess squarely, analysing its many aspects: the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 5, 2010 at 7:10 — No Comments

Some Thoughts on the Commons for reflection by the Commons movement

* Document: Some Thoughts on the Commons. Prepared by the Steering

Committee, International Commons Conference, to stimulate discussion

and reflection. (David Bollier, Beatriz Busaniche, Silke Helfrich, Julio

Lambing, Heike Löschmann) October 31, 2010

Key Thesis: Commons are the enabler for all other social goals, including environmental ones, which in essence are social.…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 4, 2010 at 20:32 — No Comments

An Invitation to Join Commons Action for the United Nations

Via Lisinka.Ulatowska@gmail.com :

All of us share sources of wealth that are beyond market goods and monetary prices…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 31, 2010 at 19:11 — No Comments

Economies of the Commons 2: Paying the costs of making things free - 12-13 November, Amsterdam

Subject: [cc-affiliates] Call for Participation - Economies of the

Commons 2: Paying the costs of making things free - 12-13 November,

Amsterdam

Economies of the Commons 2 - Paying the costs of making things free

www.ecommons.eu

International conference, seminar and public evening programs

Conference dates: 12-13 November 2010. De Balie, Amsterdam

Pre-conference: November 11. Hilversum (on collaboration… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 27, 2010 at 18:29 — No Comments

Announcement: Launch of the Commons Strategy Group

More info via http://www.commonsstrategies.org

The Commons Strategy Group sees the commons as an emerging concept for advancing new models of governance and resource management in nature, culture, the economy and our local communities. The commons places stewardship, participation, sustainability, community and the freedom to create at the center of productive enterprise.

The Commons Strategy Group (CSG) is a partnership… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 27, 2010 at 8:14 — No Comments

The full program of the International Commons Conference in Berlin

Via Silke Helfrich:

International Commons Conference (ICC)

Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 27, 2010 at 8:10 — No Comments

Video streaming details on the International Commons Conference in Berlin

Via Silke Helfrich:

Please spread the following link and share it with whomever might be interested. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

http://www.boell.de/mediathek/mediathek-stream.html

For technical assistance please ask: Markus Reuter… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 27, 2010 at 7:12 — No Comments

Paper Symposium on ‘Autonomy and Activism’ published by Antipode, Geography’s radical journal, articles freely downloadable

Via Jai Sen, CACIM:

FREE ARTICLES downloadable in new Paper Symposium on ‘Autonomy and Activism’ published by Antipode, Geography’s radical journal.

FREE @ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.2010.42.issue-4/issuetoc

Antipode, Geography's long standing radical journal of Geography, is pleased to announce a special symposium of papers called: 'Autonomy: The… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 25, 2010 at 14:46 — No Comments

FCForum, the 2nd International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era

The FCForum 2010

Citizens will continue to work on the task of conceiving a digital era

that is sustainable and benefits everybody. The oXcars will be followed

by the 3-day FCForum, the 2nd International Forum on Access to Culture

and Knowledge in the Digital Era, which is organised by EXGAE together

with the international FCForum platform, in collaboration with Arts

Santa Mònica.

The FCForum 2010 will assemble the main organisations… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 21, 2010 at 9:33 — No Comments

The 3rd oXcars edition, the greatest free culture event of all times

Yes, OXCARS (The biggest free/libre event ever) and International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era Organization and Action (FCForum) are back!

(Barcelona & online)

Oxcars: 28 October, 21ºº h Sala Apolo, Nou de la Rambla, 113, Barcelona. Metro: Paral.lel

Fcforum: 28 -31 October, http://www.fcforum.net/10

Like every other year and this one more than ever EXGAE invites everybody to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 21, 2010 at 9:31 — No Comments

The Urgent Creation of the All-World Intellectual Web Resource

Background

1. All human civilization had been…

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Added by Vladimir Nickolayevich Tretyakov on October 19, 2010 at 5:30 — No Comments

Interview with Jordan Hatcher

Over the past twenty years or so we have seen a rising tide of alternative copyright licences emerge — for software, music and most types of content. These include the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) licence, the General Public Licence (GPL), and the range of licences devised by Creative Commons (… Continue

Added by Richard Poynder on October 18, 2010 at 19:08 — No Comments