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Michel Bauwens's Blog – April 2009 Archive (8)

P2P Urban projecjt seeking assistance

Via cityleft at gmail.com, this is a project worth supporting as it is focused on p2p in the urban world:

Cityleft and P2P foundation are searching for one graphic designer and one/two english proof readers to edit the first issue of Urban Fiction. The work will be coordinated by Cityleft and the P2P foundation.

Urban Fiction is a box of contents aimed to apply the P2P concept in Urbanism.

Urban Fiction will be distributed online and printed with… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 26, 2009 at 8:20 — No Comments

Creation of a Circular Exchange Trading System

Announced by Evgeni Pandurski:

"I am currently working on a P2P system for extended bartering. I almost have finished the design of the system and have done a toy implementation of one of the subsystems. I plan not to release any code in public until I have most of the design frozen. I believe this is going to prevent the project to be spoiled down by too much design and philosophical discussions. Anyway I am open to discuss technical details with anyone who is interested in the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 25, 2009 at 2:50 — 1 Comment

CITIZENS EUROPE WIDE START SIMULTANIOUSLY A MASSIVE REACTION TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS

Via Simona Conservas:

Info via http://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition

DON'T TOUCH THE INTERNET

CITIZENS EUROPE WIDE START SIMULTANIOUSLY A MASSIVE REACTION TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS

In these weeks the Internet privatization can be decided. On May 5 the European parliament votes a package of measures that will influence the legislations of all the countries.

To protect the interests of the multinationals of communication… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 25, 2009 at 1:00 — No Comments

New project: Defining the core principles of P2P-based collaboration

From Ryan Lanham:

(http://p2pfoundation.net/Core_Peer-2-Peer_Collaboration_Principles)

To those interested in P2P Governance, System Design and/or Administration:

I want to re-announce the project on collaborative principles in p2p governance and operations.

The project relates indirectly to the partnership Michel Bauwens announced early this April in association with the University of Hull as coordinated by Athina Karatzogianni. I contended, somewhat… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 23, 2009 at 22:00 — 4 Comments

Postscript, assessment and documentation on Pixelache's alt.econ festival

Report from Andrew Paterson, who did a incredible job of organizing this more than excellent festival:

The ‘Alternative Economy Cultures’ (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd & 5th, brought together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists, to present alternative economic visions, during Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2009.

The seminar aimed to tackle not just the financial, but the social, cultural, institutional, human,… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 22, 2009 at 11:48 — No Comments

Not to be missed in NYC on April 28: Mark Elliott on Collaborative Policy Building

Details at http://www.meetup.com/opengovnyc/calendar/10234024/

Dr. Mark Elliott is a rising star in the fields of open government and mass collaboration. Through his company, CollabForge, he has successfully completed several web-based public engagement projects with government agencies in his home country of Australia. These include the Future Melbourne project in which citizens used a wiki to plan for their city's future. See Dr. Elliot's full bio below to find out more about… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 22, 2009 at 5:16 — No Comments

Hacker Space Festival 2009 (Paris, 26-30 June 2009)

Hacker Space Festival 2009 | Call For Proposals

See http://www.tmplab.org/2009/03/24/hsf-2009-call-for-proposals/

In 2008, we organized HSF[1] on the spot, as an ad-hoc meeting for

hackerspaces-related networks, technical and artistic research emerging

from them and social questionning arising from them. This sudden

experiment proved to be a huge success, as much as on the

self-organizing level as on the participants and meetings quality,… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 17, 2009 at 9:04 — No Comments

Approaching theory through the P2P Foundation wiki

Since our good friend Franz Nahrada has been saying that the P2P Foundation is good for facts and factoids but not for theory, I thought it would be useful to give an idea of how we approach theory in our wiki.

First, at the bottom of the third column, the theoretical work of many people converging around oekonux and p2p foundation topics is described in varying levels of details:

1. Adam Arvidsson's Ethical Economy

2. Christian Siefkes' Peer Economy

3.… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 17, 2009 at 7:51 — No Comments