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Featured Blog Posts – February 2010 Archive (8)

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

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

Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Barcelona from 26-29 of March 2010

Via Enric Senabre Hidalgo :

Dear friends,

We would like to request for your participation in the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 6, 2010 at 15:52 — No Comments

Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative

Via Johanna Niesyto, http://www.protest-cultures.uni-siegen.de:

Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative

Date: 26-27 March 2010

Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 5, 2010 at 10:04 — No Comments

Please support the CubeSpawn fundraising project!

Hi, This is James Jones,

I am currently developing an Open Source hardware project, called "CubeSpawn" to build small, light duty manufacturing equipment to help individuals make things locally. To get the project funded I have applied to a Pepsi sponsored Grant program.

All you need to do to support the idea, is vote for it to get it into the top ten listings To vote, go here:… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 2, 2010 at 4:59 — No Comments