Hosting P2P initiatives

A group for those interested in the quality and role of people hosting p2p initiatives around the ways of organizing learning, work, eating, living...

Hosting

There is absolutely something wrong with the renter/property owner relationship because this is one of the defining features of capitalism. The property owner has all power (particularly in the UK where I am based), and the renter is completely disempowered. Hosting dissolves this relationship of exploitation, and while it doesn't take property ownership out of the equation, it is a form of property sharing, and is quite genuinely aligned with many of the peer to peer principles.
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    Franz Nahrada

    Phoebe can you give good examples of what you mean by that?
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      Alex Rollin

      I think I know what you mean...but then I think I don't. What's different about a host?
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        Sepp Hasslberger

        It seems that hosting is going mainstream.

        BBC the other day had a service on couchsurfing as the new phenomenon in terms of travel and staying somewhere.

        There's also a commercial service - tripping - which just came out of beta and is online.

        Article about it here

        http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/05/25/tripping-launch/