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Launch of www.100kGarages.com

Via Derek Elley , September 16, 2009, MEDIA RELEASE

Ponoko and ShopBot announce partnership

More than 20,000 online creators meet over 6,000 digital fabricators

San Francisco, CA – The launch today of www.100kGarages.com begins a new chapter in how things are made and distributed, enabling anyone with an Internet connection to get almost anything custom made and delivered from local state-of-the-art digital makers.

The website is a partnership between… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 17, 2009 at 9:30 — No Comments

World Politics and Popular Culture Conference, Newcastle University, 19th and 20th of November

From: Steve Erdal

Date: 2009/9/10

Subject: World Politics and Popular Culture Conference

To: Steve Erdal

Dear all,

My name is Steve, and I'm new to the Business Development Team at Newcastle University. Dr Simon Philpott asked me to drop you a line to let you know about the World Politics and Popular Culture Conference, taking place on the 19th and 20th of November.

The Conference is a wide-ranging discussion on how popular culture makes the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 16, 2009 at 9:29 — No Comments

Complementary Currencies 1.0 for Drupal released

From Matthew Slater, http://matslats.net

Thanks for your interest in the Complementary Currencies for Drupal project (formerly marketplace module), sometime in the last year*. The module is now released, I would like to share with you the next stage of the plan.

I believe that the prevailing money system is at the root of most of humanity's problems, (compare Alan Greenspan's recent remarks about 'human nature')**. Therefore users of this module, especially early adoptors,… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 16, 2009 at 9:01 — No Comments

International Journal of Cultural Studies, SPECIAL ISSUE: CO-CREATIVE LABOUR

Special Journal issue: International Journal of Cultural Studies Table of Contents for SPECIAL ISSUE: CO-CREATIVE LABOUR: 1 September 2009; Vol. 12, No. 5.

URL = http://ics.sagepub.com/content/vol12/issue5/?etoc

John Banks and Mark Deuze have edited this special issue.

Summary:

“The term co-creation is used to describe the phenomenon of consumers increasingly participating in the process of making and circulating media content and… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 7, 2009 at 9:55 — No Comments

Developing the Virtual Society: Conflict in Adoption of Collaborative Networks 19-20 March in Hull

After Leuven, 2006; Nottingham, 2007; Manchester 2009 (April and November 3), this will be the fourth conference dedicated to P2P Research!!

A special thanks to Dr. Athina Karatzogianni for making it possible.

More information: http://virt3c.wordpress.com/

Call For Papers

The Inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference of the Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict (VIRT3C) Research Group at the University of… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 3, 2009 at 3:40 — No Comments

Opening of SBS Center 'Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC)'

Please join us for the opening of the SBS Center ‘Communication for Sustainable Social Change’ (CSSC)

on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, from 4 to 6pm.

Place: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Campus Center, Room: 1001

Keynote address

"Communicating Climate Change:

Challenges of Scale and the Strategic"

by PROF. ROBERT COX,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and

former President and current Vice-President of

THE SIERRA… Continue

Added by Jan Servaes on August 30, 2009 at 20:32 — No Comments

OPEN 2009 - Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium - Helsinki - November 5–6, 2009

Via Juha Kronqvist

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The doctoral programme in Media Lab Helsinki will organize a symposium about openness in November 5–6, 2009, which is the second edition of the event.

OPEN 2009 - Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium is an event for all interested parties who want to understand the ongoing shift from an industrially organized era to an era of networks and social production. The role and meaning of information is changing from a fixed, well-guarded asset to a… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on August 27, 2009 at 3:42 — No Comments

Request for comments on green R&D open innovation financing

Via Chris Watkins:

This was posted to Appropedia at http://www.appropedia.org/User:Buddhanoir/Energy_outline - the contributor has asked for feedback. (Add your comments on that page or its talk page, and I'll also point the contributor at any responses on this thread).

Thanks,

Chris

User:Buddhanoir/Energy outline

Hello Appropedia Energy Community,

I am currently working on a MBA dissertation with a special focus on renewable energy.… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on August 19, 2009 at 7:45 — No Comments

International Forum on Free Culture & Knowledge - Barcelona 29 Oct to 1 Nov 2009

From: "Mayo FM"

International Forum on Free Culture &

Knowledge - Barcelona 29 Oct to 1 Nov 2009

Call for participation: INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON FREE CULTURE & KNOWLEDGE

Barcelona, October 29 to November 1st 2009

Website: http://www.fcforum.net/

Newsletter subscription:

http://openfsm.net/projects/freecultureforum/lists/freecultureforumbcn

There is in motion the celebration of an International Forum on free… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on August 16, 2009 at 12:30 — No Comments

Alternative Work Organisations

Alternative Work Organisations

Stream at the International Labour Process Conference 2010, Rutgers University 15-17 March 2010

Stream convenors:

MAURIZIO ATZENI, Loughborough University, UK, m.atzeni@lboro.ac.uk

DARIO AZZELLINI, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany , dnapress@gmx.net

IMMANUEL NESS, Brooklyn College CUNY, US, manny.ness@gmail.com

Acute and deep economic crises, like the one we are currently experiencing, have always had… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on August 15, 2009 at 12:59 — No Comments

EU funding for alternative finance research

Via http://www.heterodoxnews.com/n/htn86.htm#Call_for_Papers#Call_for_Papers

the info below could also be useful for open money developers and researchers associated with our networks ..

discussion via the p2presearch list if your interested,

Michel

Text:

There is a EU project specially made for heterodox economists. The link below calls for proposals by the European Union for a four to five years research on finance that explicitly… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on August 15, 2009 at 12:51 — 2 Comments

A new book on Independent Media in Chinese Societies

Via Iam-Chong Ip:

“Hong Kong In-media is a non-profit organization advocating blogger journalism and media activism in Hong Kong.

Recently we’ve published a book titled Info-Rhizome: Report on Independent Media in the Chinese-speaking World. This book is about the recent development of independent media (including small activist media, community radio, blogger, media activist, etc) in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia. The contributors are experienced… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on August 14, 2009 at 17:39 — No Comments

ASIA SOURCE 3 is coming - 7-12 Nov 2009 Philipines

Via PS.OHM

URL = http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/asia-source-3-is-coming

ASIA SOURCE 3

07-12 November 2009

Silang, Cavite, Philippines

MABUHAY! (Long live!) and get ready for Asia Source 3!

If you are a F/OSS advocate, an enthusiast or end-user, a developer or

even a newbie who strongly believes in building capacities and

empowering humanity with the use of Free/Open Source Software, we look

forward to welcome you to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on August 14, 2009 at 15:28 — No Comments

идея фикс. сотрудничество научных сотрудников. one idea about cooperation

Чисто из практических побуждений пришла в голову идея сотрудничества людей, имеющих доступ к библиотекам в разных странах для упрощения обмена информации и научного материала для научных целей.

Суть в бесплатности услуг. Идея из серии таких сообществ как Couchsurfing.org, Hospitalityclub.org, bookcrossing...

Смысл идеи не столько обеспечить себе взаимную помощь от того самого лица, как сделать мир ближе. Освоить его.

Мне нужна одна маленькая книга на польском. "Moralność w… Continue

Added by Natasha on August 13, 2009 at 14:15 — No Comments

CFP: The Inaugural Conference of the Internet and P2P Research Group (IP2PRG) at the University of Hull

Hello,

We would be grateful if you could forward this call for papers to your school or department. A pdf with further details is attached (to be added later).

With best wishes from Hull,

The organising team

(Athina Karatzogianni, Michel Bauwens, Majid Yar, George Michaelides)

Please note this is a first informal draft!

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Inaugural Conference of the Internet and P2P… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on August 13, 2009 at 8:00 — No Comments

P2P PIONEERS vs. PROTO-CAPITALISM: MAGHRIBIS & GENOESE

This is a repost from Golpe de e-Estado.

There is a tendency to believe peer production to be a better system. Fine with that, the point now is whether it is sustainable or not.

As it was argued in…

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Added by Ignacio de Castro Arribas on August 3, 2009 at 13:00 — No Comments

CEB Vault Construction Workshop

Via Marcin Jacubowski:

Here is our formal initial announcement of the 10-day Compressed Earth Block (CEB) Vault Construction Workshop. It will be held at Factor e Farm, in the Kansas City area, Missouri, USA, at the end of September, 2009.

Workshop Description: This is North America’s first workshop on the construction of vaults from CEBs. This is a hands-on, immersion workshop in which participants will work on the construction of a vaulted house with a living roof… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on July 30, 2009 at 5:45 — No Comments

New project for collaboration infrastructure: OpenKollab

Via Matt Cooperrider:

Hi P2P'ers,

Since Participation Camp, I've been working on a project called OpenKollab. This message will give you some idea about it, but the documentation at http://openkollab.com breaks it down more. We're having our weekly open chat session in Skype (email me your Skype name for an invite - we'll be migrating to IRC starting next week FYI) tomorrow 7/29 at 15:00 GMT. Would love to hear your thoughts here or in any of the channels over at… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on July 29, 2009 at 3:08 — 1 Comment

A PEER-BASED SPIRITUAL BLESSING COMMUNITY!!

Via Steven Vedro

Friends: Many of you know me from Digital Dharma, others are friends from spiritual practice, or just 'friends.'

In the last six months I have been working on using the Internet to facilitate the giving and receiving of blessings. I first created a blog [http://myblessingcircle.blogspot.com/] to share the blessings I have given to friends at special events over the last years, and now I seek your help to test the next step in this process: a peer-based… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on July 27, 2009 at 8:27 — No Comments

Paul Fernhout on the Peer to Peer Security Alliance

A proposal by Paul Fernhout:

Here is the key idea: a peer-to-peer security alliance should be of a different form than a mutual defense pact against outsiders. It should be more like a mutual attack pact against insiders, where if anyone in the alliance attacks another peer in the alliance (or violates an agreed on boundary in some way), then the *entire* rest of the alliance agrees takes action against the peer violating the boundary or doing the aggressive thing. This… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on July 26, 2009 at 17:10 — No Comments