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New board members: Penny Travlou and Panos Antoniadis
by Mathieu ONeil 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Hi all I am sponsoring Penny Travlou and Panos Antoniadis as new JoPP board members. @Penny and Panos: could you please briefly describe your research interests and intended contribution to the journal. cheers, Mathieu

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Core team / Work issue
by Mathieu ONeil 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Hi all Francesca Musiani has resigned from the core team for personal reasons; she remains on the journal board. Many thanks to Francesca for her work on developing the journal. The team approached Sophie Toupin who agreed to join in Francesca's stead. On behalf of the team: we are delighted about this decision! Finally, Phoebe Moore told me Zack and I a while ago that she wished to pull out of the work issue. We had some great submissions and are on track; full papers are due at the end of the year and we will be approaching reviewers in January. cheers, Mathieu

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Jopp Web Site: Server error 503
by stoopt 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Hi all, We, the Feminism and (Un)hacking editors, have started uploading papers for our upcoming release. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with the server at the moment. A 503 error. Can someone look into this please? Much appreciated, Sophie

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New board member: Peter Troxler
by Mathieu ONeil 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Hi all Normally, in order for someone to join the Journal of Peer Production (JoPP) board, the following has to happen: - A board member sponsors the candidate on this list; - The candidate responds by briefly describing their research interests and how they intend to contribute to the journal; - If a week elapses and no-one has objected, they are included on the board. In the case of Peter Troxler, none of this applies, and he is from this moment officially a board member. There are two main reasons for this extraordinary and dramatic circumvention of customary processes: 1. Peter has been involved in the peer production space for years (see appendix A); he is the president of the International Fab Lab Association; he co-edited with maxigas JoPP#5 on "Shared machine shops"; and he is an active participant on this list. 2. Last week I approached Peter on behalf of the editorial team and asked him if, in addition to normal board duties, he would be able to help us with the CMS/website; he accepted. So, welcome aboard Peter! cheers Mathieu PS. I will post another message about the CMS shortly. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Appendix A Whilst searching in my mailbox for "troxler" I came across a message posted by Stefan Merten to the English Oekonux list on 13 October 2010 about the Free Culture Research Conference which had been held at Berlin' Freie Universität a few days earlier. I am reposting the relevant passages below: "One of the most interesting panels titled "New Forms of Production" was right in the beginning of the conference. The utmost interesting talk of Peter Troxler was titled `Commons-based Peer Production of Physical Goods - Is There Room for a Hybrid Innovation Ecology?`_. Peter reported results from three studies about FabLabs [#]_. I don't remember the exact number but so far the number of FabLabs on this planet seems to be still small - in any case much less than 100. FabLabs in this sense are shops where there are these cool machines often called fabbers or 3D-printers which materialize physical goods >From digital designs. Those FabLabs are publicly funded and though they are made for the general public they are most frequently used by students. When the maintainers of the FabLabs are asked what they provide they replied infrastructure - i.e. the machines -, expertise and the FabLab network. Unfortunately I can't say much about this network but `Peter's paper`_ may contain more information about this. When the maintainers are asked what they provide their service for, there were two types: One type replied that they provide infrastructure for people to produce stuff, the other type replied that they provide infrastructure for people to produce *cool* stuff (aka innovation). When asked what the maintainers take pride in running those FabLabs they replied that they take pride in the effects that using the FabLabs has on users. The pain of the maintainers is the funding. They are running on subsidies with no idea how to continue when the subsidies run out. There is also a tendency in the FabLabs to say "we don't want to be business". Peter also gave a number of examples where designs created in FabLabs were interesting for business. One example was a small walking robot which has been designed and created in a FabLab but was so interesting for a company that they asked for permission to use the design. Another example was about a FabLab in Indonesia where it helped to produce cheap leg prostheses. After the talk there were lots of questions from the audience and later on in a private conversation with again highly interesting answers. One question was about the cost models of these FabLabs. Peter said that there are basically two models. One is similar to a normal business where you need say $1000 per day for energy, wages, amortization, ... The other model is more like "let's have some space where we can *build* our fabbing machines ourselves". Yes, people really build their materializers themselves! The latter approach of course lowers the barriers to have neighborhood FabLabs. Another question about the business model was what about charging the users for using the FabLab. There are various opinions in the FabLab scene. One is that FabLabs *should* be free of charge. Another one is that charging say $20/half day is really ok. Another alternative are companies - i.e. not FabLabs - which sell the production of customer designs. So effectively there is a continuum from totally free of charge to selling some production capability. Another question was about the costs of the raw materials. According to Peter the raw material varies from scrap materials you can obtain without costs to high-priced raw materials for special machines. Another question was about using industrial robots in such FabLabs. Peter told us that at the moment the automotive industry is throwing out the last generation of industrial robots replacing them by newer models. FabLabs may have them for free of buy them for low prices. However, industrial robots are scary machines. In contrast to the 3D-printer type of machines it is well possible that an industrial robot kills a person during operation. As I said this was one of the most interesting talks to me and I'd suggest that you check out `Peter's paper`_ for more details. Though the other talks were also interesting I'll report only briefly about some of them." _Peter's paper: .. _Commons-based Peer Production of Physical Goods - Is There Room for a Hybrid Innovation Ecology?: http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/download/attachments/59080767/Troxler-Paper.pdf?v… Commons-based Peer-Production of Physical Goods r2 Commons-based Peer-Production of Physical Goods-Is there Room for a Hybrid Innovation Ecology? © 2010 Peter Troxler, CC-BY 3.0 3 Next to these single-aim or single ... Read more...<http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/download/attachments/59080767/Troxler-Paper.pdf?v…> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Re: [JoPP-Public] JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
by Angela Daly 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hi everyone, If there's going to be a bit of website redevelopment going on, can we try to ensure that the site is fixed in a way which will allow indexing by Google Scholar? This is something I brought up recently but got a bit lost so it seems. Here's the info from Google: http://scholar.google.com.au/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html Thanks! Angela

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Graphic Interface on JoPP
by Johan Söderberg 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Hi everyone, Is it for technical reasons that we must give up the current design of the website in favor of a generic, word-press theme? If so, so be it. But on an information-graphics-side of things, I believe this will be a loss for the journal. The distinct style of the current JoPP-website makes us stand out from any number of the off-the-mill open access-journals with their default, white-background Wordpress layout. If it is technically feasible, I vote for us keeping the old design. All the best, /Johan

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Updates about JoPP special issue on Feminism and (Un)hacking
by sophie toupin 27 Sep '15

27 Sep '15

Dear all, I hope this email finds you well. I would like to briefly update you on where we are at with the Special Issue on Feminism and (Un)hacking and some of the thought provoking reflection we are having with this issue currently. At a more mundane level, we are pleased to inform you that the first round of peer review has been completed and we should start the second round in May. So all is good on that front. On a more thought provoking aspect, we have been pondering for quite some time now on how to handle the order of editors. So far in our communication we have been using a standard alphabetical order. Lilly in our group suggested to create a pen name out of our three names to have a single editor for the Special Issue. The idea of a pen-name is inspired in part by the work of radical feminist geographers J.K. Gibson-Graham who did just that a few years ago. We all feel our special issue is perfect for such experimentation as it is a hack on the academic publishing system and the hierarchical order it imposes on researchers. Our introductory article to the Special Issue will probably begin with an explanation of our own contribution to feminist hacking: That is a “HowTo” on how to hack academic standards and traditions from a feminist and queer perspective, while giving equal recognition to all for their work. Also, we feel that the choice of a pen-name does not erase our identities as individuals, but rather aim at questioning and initiating a discussion about the nature of work, scholarship, expertise, and authority from a feminist and queer framework. We are all super enthusiastic about the idea of resisting the traditional authorship structure in our special issue. We hope you will be as excited as we are about this experimentation. Very best, SSL Nagbot (SSL= Secure Sockets Layer, or if you prefer, Shaowen, Sophie, Lilly)

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Re: [JoPP-Public] JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 43, Issue 6
by Steve Collins 27 Sep '15

27 Sep '15

I'm afraid my Wordpress skills are very limited, but I agree that this looks like a CMS issue. There's also a 404 error for some Twitter feed that's being reported in the javascript console. I'm unsure of how these pages are constructed so the failure to load this Twitter feed could prevent other content from loading. -- *Dr Steve Collins* Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Program Director / BA-Media / Bachelor Marketing and Media Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies Macquarie University P: (02) 9850 2165 W: http://bit.ly/122QivW L: Y3A 191D On 27 September 2015 at 20:02, <jopp-public-request(a)lists.ourproject.org> wrote: > 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. Re: WebSite is down (Mathieu ONeil) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 02:59:34 +0000 > From: Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au> > Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] WebSite is down > To: "jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org" > <jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org> > Message-ID: > < > TY1PR06MB0717FF8E3339C5E5F7C1AA1DC6400(a)TY1PR06MB0717.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Sophie, all > > I had a look at the site and it appears all posts (ie CFPs accessible > through the "news" menu) have the same error. I tried putting tags back on > these posts but could not. > > Interestingly all pages (journal issues) are visible to me publicly but > not in the editable version of the CMS. Did you experience any problems > when uploading content for the femhack issue? Is the post error > compromising your ability to complete the upload? Thanks for advising. > > I don't think the P2P Foundation people will be able to help as this seems > more like an internal CMS issue than a server problem so one of us will > have to address this: preferably someone with a better understanding of > html and WordPress than me who has access to the site - maxigas or Steve > perhaps? Thanks for letting us know if you can have a look. > > cheers > > Mathieu > > > > ________________________________________ > From: jopp-public-bounces(a)lists.ourproject.org < > jopp-public-bounces(a)lists.ourproject.org> on behalf of stoopt < > stoupin(a)riseup.net> > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 1:57 > To: jopp-public(a)lists.ourproject.org > Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] WebSite is down > > Hello all, > > I have noticed that a few web pages on the JoPP website are still not > functioning well. It is mostly the links under news which do not work > and where we can read: "Catchable fatal error". > > Examples are with: > - http://peerproduction.net/peer-production-and-work/ > - http://peerproduction.net/edsl2/ > > Sophie > > > On 16/09/15 04:40 PM, maxigas wrote: > > From: Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au> > > Subject: Re: [JoPP-Public] WebSite is down > > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:15:15 +0000 > > > >> Hi all > >> > >> The site is back up - James (P2PF) said the server memory was > >> overloaded, so they needed to free up space for the site to function > >> normally again. > > > > Great, thanks! > > > > -- > > maxigas, kiberpunk > > FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 > > http://research.metatron.ai/ > > > > A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion. > > Q: Why is top-posting bad? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > JoPP-Public mailing list > > JoPP-Public(a)lists.ourproject.org > > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jopp-public > > > > _______________________________________________ > JoPP-Public mailing list > JoPP-Public(a)lists.ourproject.org > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jopp-public > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > JoPP-Public mailing list > JoPP-Public(a)lists.ourproject.org > JoPP: http://www.peerproduction.org > > End of JoPP-Public Digest, Vol 43, Issue 6 > ****************************************** >

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indexes
by maxigas 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

hi, i remember a mail about the journal of peer production being indexed in some (semi-)scientific index, but i cannot find the mail. somebody remembers or has the reference? we should also mention it on our About page, btw. -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion. Q: Why is top-posting bad?

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Hacking research list
by Mathieu ONeil 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Hi all If anyone feels like they don't subscribe to enough lists, Biella Coleman just set up a new research list on hacking - see message below reposted from AIR. cheers, Mathieu =-=-=-= Hi all, Many of us who went to the Chaos Computer Club camp in Germany met to discuss the study of hacking (whether through scholarly, activist or artistic work). We have created a mailing list to continue the discussion and plan for future meetings. Please join if you are interested List name for subscribing hackademia-subscribe(a)lists.riseup.net <mailto:[email protected]<https://www.canberra.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=zUUrDCd56wWohFZHBnby5o74ahp…>> Instructions for joining: https://help.riseup.net/en/lists/list-user/subscribing#how-do-i-subscribe-t…<https://www.canberra.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=mzMan5Yk8a4q_sNe-3GPtHDeMSz…> All best, Biella =-=-=-=

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