August 2013 - JoPP-Public - lists.ourproject.org

JoPP "project" page: surveys & translations
by Mathieu ONeil 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Hi all As was discussed in the past there are some projects connected to JoPP that should be mentioned on the site. To this end I created a new "projects" menu which at this point has two subpages: 1. surveys @Jarkko: could you please populate this page with a description of your "Surveys of P2P projects" project as well as link(s) to relevant pages on your website. Thanks. 2. translations @Jakob: could you please post the list any links to non-English language translations of your JoPP article. Thanks. @Nicolas: a few months ago you indicated on this list that you were proposing to translate some of our articles into Spanish https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/jopp-public/2013-March/000127.html Could you please advise us if that has been done and if yes, what are the articles and URLs? Thanks. cheers, Mathieu

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New member: Stefano Zacchiroli
by Mathieu ONeil 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

Hi all I am delighted to sponsor a (pardon the cringe) very special new member of our editorial board, Stefano Zacchiroli. Stefano was until recently project leader for the legendary FOSS distribution, Debian, which is as we speak celebrating its 20th anniversary! Stefano, over to you: thanks for briefly presenting yourself, your research interests and your intended contribution to the journal. cheers, Mathieu

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Thingiverse analysis [was: RE: JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7]
by Mathieu ONeil 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

Hi Jarkko, Johan, I agree that work can improve if you bounce off another but this is not my area so must regretfully decline. If you want to work on licenses then a natural home for the paper could be the upcoming JoPP 'law and disruption' issue (official CFP will be released mid-Spetember)? cheers Mathieu ps. Sorry for being a thread fascist but its clearer if we keep the same title.. -- **** ________________________________________ From: jopp-public-bounces(a)lists.ourproject.org [jopp-public-bounces(a)lists.ourproject.org] on behalf of Johan Söderberg [johan.soderberg(a)sts.gu.se] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 23:59 To: jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7 That is a great initiative, Jarkko! I would have jumped on your proposal to co-write, had it not been for that I am trying to get into a new research field, and what keeps me from getting there is my previous engagement in the 3D printing scene. So I am writing just to complement your list of alternative repositories to Thingiverse. Already back in 2010, a challenger to Thingiverse was started by Peter Sunde, the forerunner of The Pirate Bay, called The Product Bay. I dont know for how long it was in up and running, probably not for very long, but maybe it left a trace in the way-back machine. Though before the launch of Replicator 2 and before the patent held by Bre Pettis et al had been revealed, there was a small controversy over the license scheme of Thingiverse, which, at the time, among other things, forbade deep-linking to the content of the site (presumably to protect future advertising revenue) despite the openness of that user-generated content. So what came after had been long in preparation. /Johan ________________________________________ Från: jopp-public-bounces(a)lists.ourproject.org [jopp-public-bounces(a)lists.ourproject.org] för jopp-public-request(a)lists.ourproject.org [jopp-public-request(a)lists.ourproject.org] Skickat: den 21 augusti 2013 12:00 Till: jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org Ämne: JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7 Send JoPP-Public mailing list submissions to jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jopp-public or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to jopp-public-request(a)lists.ourproject.org You can reach the person managing the list at jopp-public-owner(a)lists.ourproject.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of JoPP-Public digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Looking for co-author - Thingiverse analysis (Jarkko Moilanen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:57:16 +0300 From: "Jarkko Moilanen" <jarkko.moilanen(a)uta.fi> Subject: [JoPP-Public] Looking for co-author - Thingiverse analysis To: jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org Message-ID: <1377003436.4746.33.camel@kyyberi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" [apologies if this not the right forum] Hi, This might sound a bit awkward later on. I have gathered metadata from about 117k Thingiverse.com models. Here's some graphs that I've pulled from the data: http://ossoil.com/thingiverse In my experience writing together with another scholar results always to better outcome. This time I thought to try this forum :) Therefore I'm looking for someone who might be interested about the same topics - in this case 3D modelling community & licenses used - and who would like to co-author an article about the results that have already been found and what else (ideas welcome) could be found. About the article: 3D Printing is still a hot topic. More 3D printers are being developed which can be seen for example in the amount of Kickstarter 3D printer projects. Having an opportunity to use 3D printer is not enough though. Digital 3D models are needed too and sharing the models is said to be common among the community members. For long time Thingiverse has been the de facto service to store digital 3D models for others to use. According to Wikipedia Thingiverse.com "is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files." It is said to be "the most widely used 3D model repositories in the Maker community". Some say that "Thingverse is built on the concept of giving back. In other words, as a responsible community member, you should not only download models but also upload and share your creations to repay the community". Other digital 3d model sharing services Yet, not all share the same positive image of Thingiverse, which is mostly due to issues that has been tangled around Replicator2 and Terms of Use for Thingiverse. What connects the two items (Replicator2 and Thingiverse) is that both were owned by same company, Makerbot Industries, before it was acquired by 3D Printing industry giant Stratasys in June 2013. The topics were so hot that even a 'occupy' movement was born and some took their 3D models down from Thingiverse.com. Around the same time, an alternative for thingiverse was born. It is based on GitHub and is labelled as githubiverse described by Gary Hodgson. Another alternative candidate for thingiverse is cubehero.com. Neither githubiverse or cubehero.com seem to be popular. Their impact, if none, on digital 3D model sharing remains to be seen. Inspired by the discussions about the future of Thingiverse and other activities around the topic, I decided to do some analysis on 'things' in Thingiverse.com. Is it really about sharing? What kind of licenses are used? .... -- Jarkko Moilanen, M.Soc.Sc PhD Candidate School of Information Sciences http://www.uta.fi/sis/en/index.html Blog: http://blog.ossoil.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ JoPP-Public mailing list JoPP-Public(a)lists.ourproject.org JoPP: http://www.peerproduction.org End of JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7 ****************************************** _______________________________________________ JoPP-Public mailing list JoPP-Public(a)lists.ourproject.org https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jopp-public

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Re: [JoPP-Public] JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7
by Johan Söderberg 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

That is a great initiative, Jarkko! I would have jumped on your proposal to co-write, had it not been for that I am trying to get into a new research field, and what keeps me from getting there is my previous engagement in the 3D printing scene. So I am writing just to complement your list of alternative repositories to Thingiverse. Already back in 2010, a challenger to Thingiverse was started by Peter Sunde, the forerunner of The Pirate Bay, called The Product Bay. I dont know for how long it was in up and running, probably not for very long, but maybe it left a trace in the way-back machine. Though before the launch of Replicator 2 and before the patent held by Bre Pettis et al had been revealed, there was a small controversy over the license scheme of Thingiverse, which, at the time, among other things, forbade deep-linking to the content of the site (presumably to protect future advertising revenue) despite the openness of that user-generated content. So what came after had been long in preparation. /Johan ________________________________________ Från: jopp-public-bounces(a)lists.ourproject.org [jopp-public-bounces(a)lists.ourproject.org] för jopp-public-request(a)lists.ourproject.org [jopp-public-request(a)lists.ourproject.org] Skickat: den 21 augusti 2013 12:00 Till: jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org Ämne: JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7 Send JoPP-Public mailing list submissions to jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jopp-public or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to jopp-public-request(a)lists.ourproject.org You can reach the person managing the list at jopp-public-owner(a)lists.ourproject.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of JoPP-Public digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Looking for co-author - Thingiverse analysis (Jarkko Moilanen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:57:16 +0300 From: "Jarkko Moilanen" <jarkko.moilanen(a)uta.fi> Subject: [JoPP-Public] Looking for co-author - Thingiverse analysis To: jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org Message-ID: <1377003436.4746.33.camel@kyyberi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" [apologies if this not the right forum] Hi, This might sound a bit awkward later on. I have gathered metadata from about 117k Thingiverse.com models. Here's some graphs that I've pulled from the data: http://ossoil.com/thingiverse In my experience writing together with another scholar results always to better outcome. This time I thought to try this forum :) Therefore I'm looking for someone who might be interested about the same topics - in this case 3D modelling community & licenses used - and who would like to co-author an article about the results that have already been found and what else (ideas welcome) could be found. About the article: 3D Printing is still a hot topic. More 3D printers are being developed which can be seen for example in the amount of Kickstarter 3D printer projects. Having an opportunity to use 3D printer is not enough though. Digital 3D models are needed too and sharing the models is said to be common among the community members. For long time Thingiverse has been the de facto service to store digital 3D models for others to use. According to Wikipedia Thingiverse.com "is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files." It is said to be "the most widely used 3D model repositories in the Maker community". Some say that "Thingverse is built on the concept of giving back. In other words, as a responsible community member, you should not only download models but also upload and share your creations to repay the community". Other digital 3d model sharing services Yet, not all share the same positive image of Thingiverse, which is mostly due to issues that has been tangled around Replicator2 and Terms of Use for Thingiverse. What connects the two items (Replicator2 and Thingiverse) is that both were owned by same company, Makerbot Industries, before it was acquired by 3D Printing industry giant Stratasys in June 2013. The topics were so hot that even a 'occupy' movement was born and some took their 3D models down from Thingiverse.com. Around the same time, an alternative for thingiverse was born. It is based on GitHub and is labelled as githubiverse described by Gary Hodgson. Another alternative candidate for thingiverse is cubehero.com. Neither githubiverse or cubehero.com seem to be popular. Their impact, if none, on digital 3D model sharing remains to be seen. Inspired by the discussions about the future of Thingiverse and other activities around the topic, I decided to do some analysis on 'things' in Thingiverse.com. Is it really about sharing? What kind of licenses are used? .... -- Jarkko Moilanen, M.Soc.Sc PhD Candidate School of Information Sciences http://www.uta.fi/sis/en/index.html Blog: http://blog.ossoil.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ JoPP-Public mailing list JoPP-Public(a)lists.ourproject.org JoPP: http://www.peerproduction.org End of JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7 ******************************************

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Looking for co-author - Thingiverse analysis
by Jarkko Moilanen 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

[apologies if this not the right forum] Hi, This might sound a bit awkward later on. I have gathered metadata from about 117k Thingiverse.com models. Here's some graphs that I've pulled from the data: http://ossoil.com/thingiverse In my experience writing together with another scholar results always to better outcome. This time I thought to try this forum :) Therefore I'm looking for someone who might be interested about the same topics - in this case 3D modelling community & licenses used - and who would like to co-author an article about the results that have already been found and what else (ideas welcome) could be found. About the article: 3D Printing is still a hot topic. More 3D printers are being developed which can be seen for example in the amount of Kickstarter 3D printer projects. Having an opportunity to use 3D printer is not enough though. Digital 3D models are needed too and sharing the models is said to be common among the community members. For long time Thingiverse has been the de facto service to store digital 3D models for others to use. According to Wikipedia Thingiverse.com "is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files." It is said to be "the most widely used 3D model repositories in the Maker community". Some say that "Thingverse is built on the concept of giving back. In other words, as a responsible community member, you should not only download models but also upload and share your creations to repay the community". Other digital 3d model sharing services Yet, not all share the same positive image of Thingiverse, which is mostly due to issues that has been tangled around Replicator2 and Terms of Use for Thingiverse. What connects the two items (Replicator2 and Thingiverse) is that both were owned by same company, Makerbot Industries, before it was acquired by 3D Printing industry giant Stratasys in June 2013. The topics were so hot that even a 'occupy' movement was born and some took their 3D models down from Thingiverse.com. Around the same time, an alternative for thingiverse was born. It is based on GitHub and is labelled as githubiverse described by Gary Hodgson. Another alternative candidate for thingiverse is cubehero.com. Neither githubiverse or cubehero.com seem to be popular. Their impact, if none, on digital 3D model sharing remains to be seen. Inspired by the discussions about the future of Thingiverse and other activities around the topic, I decided to do some analysis on 'things' in Thingiverse.com. Is it really about sharing? What kind of licenses are used? .... -- Jarkko Moilanen, M.Soc.Sc PhD Candidate School of Information Sciences http://www.uta.fi/sis/en/index.html Blog: http://blog.ossoil.com

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New webmaster: Jarkko Moilanen
by Mathieu ONeil 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Hi all Franco Iacomella, who played such an important role in setting up the Wordpress site, unfortunately has to cease working on JoPP. A thousand thank yous for his contribution, he will be remembered. Jarkko Moilanen who produces the P2P survey website [http://surveys.peerproduction.net/] has kindly accepted to be our new webmaster. Many thanks Jarkko, welcome aboard! His role will mainly be to implement updates via FTP and to step in in case of emergencies. He will also liaise with James Burke of the P2P Foundation if necessary. Currently the following editors have admin rights on the site: Johan, Mathieu, Maurizio and Nate, In addition Vincenzo (editorial board member), James Burke and now Jarkko have been granted these rights. cheers, Mathieu

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CFP: Shared Machine Shops: Beyond Local Prototyping and Manufacturing
by Mathieu ONeil 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Call for Papers - Special issue of the Journal of Peer Production Shared Machine Shops: Beyond Local Prototyping and Manufacturing Editors: Maxigas (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Peter Troxler (International Fab Lab Association, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) In the last years we have witnessed an incredible proliferation of shared machine shops in a confusing number of genres: hackerspaces, makerspaces, Fab Labs and their more commercial counterparts such as TechShops, co-working spaces, accelerators and incubators. These are currently "fringe phenomena" because they play a minor role in the production of wealth, knowledge, political consensus and the social organisation of life. Interestingly, however, they also experience the same core transformations as contemporary capitalism. That is, for the individual: the convergence of work, labour and other aspects of life. On a systemic level: the rapid development of algorithmically driven technical systems and their intensifying role in social organisation. Finally, as a corollary: the practical and legitimation crisis of modern institutions, echoed by renewed attempts at self-organisation. Arguably, hackers occupied such an ambiguous position since the beginning of hackerdom, but shared machine shops represent a new configuration. They appear as embodied communities organised in research and production units of physical and logical goods; they even appear to escape the subcultural ghetto as educational institutions, museums, and libraries start to integrate them into their ambit. They are eminent laboratories in both their practices and products: as experimental forms of social institutions, and as the developers of technological prototypes projecting new visions of the future. Industry actors, state authorities and policy makers have recognised such milieus as prolific grounds for recruitment and new organisational models, which in itself warrants critical attention. Inspired by all these developments, we dedicate the next special issue of the Journal of Peer Production to Fab Labs and similar places. Some of the questions we are interested in exploring: * What are the historical conditions and concrete genealogies which enabled the emergence of shared machine shops? (Can we talk about the renewed relevance of craftsmanship?) * Are rapid prototyping practices changing the relationships to technology, research and development, and innovation? (Are shared machine shops democratising knowledge and production or rather building a new maker elite?) * How do technologies cultivated in shared machine shops such as personal fabrication intervene in urban and rural geographies? (Is the time ripe for "global villages" or we have to adapt to "smart cities"?) * What new and old anthropologies and ethics are articulated in shared machine shops? (Who is the “New Man” of Peer Production?) * Finally, how do shared machine shops interface with the political economy of contemporary capitalism and the military-industrial complex? (If the means of production are in the hands of the workers, is that free labour, a new form of outsourcing, or the germ for a next revolution?) Beyond local prototyping and manufacturing capability, what is the contribution of shared machine shops to critical practices of technology appropriation, to products, services and consumption patterns, to urban and rural geographies, and to practical political economy and ethics? Contributions are welcome from scholars and practitioners alike. Collaborative efforts are encouraged. We are mainly expecting academic papers on the one hand, and commented project documentations or narrative vignettes on the other hand, but anything that can be presented on a website could work. However, submitters are advised to keep in mind that the content should address questions of consequence to practitioners, based on realities on the ground, while at the same time they should be reflexive and consider their wider intellectual context. Submission proposals of up to 500 words due by September 30th, 2013, and should be sent to fablabissue(a)peerproduction.net. Submissions will be notified by October 15th, 2013, and full papers and materials (research papers around 8,000 words, testimonies and documents around 3,000 words) are due by January 31st, 2014, for review. Final submission deadline is June 1st, 2014. The special issue is due to appear in early July 2014. Research papers are peer reviewed according to JoPP review policies.

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Next issues & draft "Peer production, disruption and the law" CFP
by Mathieu ONeil 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Hi all We need to take advantage of the interest generated by the release of the FLOSS issue to send out a CFP for an upcoming issue. I have been liaising with Angela and Steve about their CFP (posted below for comments - thanks). Btw the Swedish people have released their own CFP in another journal on piracy which explains why the piracy angle is not emphasised here. Angela and Steve are happy to send this out asap for release in one year, which would involve a switch with the planned fablab issue so we would have: june / july 2014 law, disruption dec 2014 / jan 2015 fablabs @Maxigas: what do you and Peter think about this plan? Thanks for advising, cheers Mathieu =-=-=-=-=-=-= CFP - Special issue of the Journal of Peer Production Peer production, disruption and the law Editors: Steve Collins, Macquarie University and Angela Daly, Swinburne University of Technology & Dept. of Law, European University Institute The disruption caused by new technologies and non-conventional methods of organisation have posed challenges for the law, confronting regulators with the need to balance justice with powerful interests. Experience from the “disruptions” of the late 20th century has shown that the response from incumbent industries can lead to a period of intense litigation and lobbying for laws that will maintain the status quo. For example, following its “Napster moment”, the music industry fought to maintain its grip on distribution channels through increased copyright enforcement and the longer copyright terms it managed to extract from the legislative process. The newspaper industry has similarly seen its historical revenue stream of classified ads disrupted by more efficient online listings, and responded to its own failure to capitalise on online advertising by launching legal campaigns against Google News in various European countries. Though the law as it stands may not be well-equipped to deal with disruptive episodes, the technological innovations of the last twenty years have created an environment that generates disruption. The Internet, the Web and networked personal computers have converged into the ubiquitous post-PC media device, leaving twentieth century paradigms of production, consumption and distribution under considerable threat. The latest technology to be added to this group of disruptive innovations may be 3D-printing, which in recent times has become increasingly available and accessible to users in developed economies, whilst the manufacturing capacity of 3D-printers has dramatically grown. Although current offerings on the market are far from a Star Trek-like “replicator”, the spectre of disruption has once again arrived, with the prospect of 3D-printed guns inspiring a moral panic and raising questions of gun control, regulation, jurisdiction and effective control. In addition, 3D-printing raises a number of issues regarding intellectual property, going far beyond the copyright problems that file-sharing brought about due to its production of physical objects. This special issue of the Journal of Peer Production calls for papers that deal with the intersection of peer production, disruptive technologies and the law. Potential topics include, but are not restricted to: -The threat posed by peer production to legacy industries -The regulation of disruptive technologies through the rule of law or embedded rights management -Lobbying strategies of incumbent players to stymie disruptive technologies -Emergent economies or practices as a result of disruptive technologies -Extra-legal norm formation in peer production communities around disruptive technologies -Historical perspectives on the legal status of collaborative projects -Critical legal approaches to technology, disruption and peer production -The role and ability of the law (which differs across jurisdictions) in regulating autonomous production -The resilience of law in the face of social and technological change -The theories and assumptions which continue to underpin laws rendered obsolete by social and technological change Specifics of submission/word length/referencing system/deadlines go here. 500-word abstracts to the editors @ ... =-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Announcement: "The Critical Power of Free Software" released - special issue of the Journal of Peer Production
by maurizio teli 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Dear All, please help circulate, take a look at the issue, and point to problems or mistakes. Best M. --- Announcement: it has been released "The Critical Power of Free Software: From Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?" Journal of Peer Production, Issue 3 The Journal of Peer Production Editorial Board and the issue editors, Maurizio Teli and Vincenzo D'Andrea, are happy to announce the publication of the Special Issue titled "The Critical Power of Free Software: From Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?". The issue explores the contemporary ability of Free Software to constitute a form of epistemological and material critique OF contemporary societies. It does so with five research papers and three pieces in a "debate section". The Journal of Peer Production is an Open Access journal. Table of contents: Editorial Notes An Introduction to “The Critical Power of Free Software: from Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?” by Maurizio Teli and Vincenzo D’Andrea <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/editorial…> peer reviewed papers <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> P2P Search as an Alternative to Google: Recapturing network value through decentralized search by Tyler Handley <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> Free software and the law. Out of the frying pan and into the fire: how shaking up intellectual property suits competition just fine by Angela Daly <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> The Ethic of the Code: An Ethnography of a ‘Humanitarian Hacking’ Community by Douglas Haywood <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> From Free Software to Artisan Science by Dan McQuillan <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> Free Software trajectories: from organized publics to formal social enterprises? by Morgan Currie, Christopher Kelty, and Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo, University of California, Los Angeles <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/peer-revi…> Debate <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/> There is no free software. by Christopher Kelty <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/th…> Desired becomings by Katja Mayer and Judith Simon <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/de…> An Envisioning of Free Software’s potential as a form of cultural, practical, and material critique: A New perspective on the implications of FS peer production for social change? by David Hakken <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-3-free-software-epistemics/debate/an…>

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