[Apologies for multiple posts] “Productive Negation”: the inaugural issue of the Journal of Peer Production is now published http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-1/ The Journal of Peer Production scrutinises the contradictions of peer (collaborative) production. It is thus situated in between grassroots initiatives and discussions driven by practitioners and activists and the debates taking place in academia. The inaugural issue's theme, “Productive negation”, aims to interrogate the role of peer production as a “work of the negative”, that is to say as a critical force. As the traditional left is struggling to come up with an adequate response to the mounting crisis of the capitalist system, contributors propose a range of interpretations about the relationship between the profit-oriented capitalist mode of production and the commons-based and oriented mode of peer production. The Journal of Peer Production also strives to make a small contribution to the reforming of scientific publishing. Taking a cue from Wikipedia, the journal publishes original article submissions, reviewers' reports, and signals indicating how reviewers perceive the revised article. Our ambition is to make the process of peer reviewing papers more transparent and more effective. The inaugural issue is coordinated by Mathieu O'Neil. It includes three research papers, four invited comments and three debate papers: George Dafermos, Authority in Peer Production: The Emergence of Governance in the FreeBSD Project Stefano De Paoli, Vincenzo D’Andrea and Maurizio Teli, Why Free Software Is Not the Antonym of Commercial Software: Two Case Studies from Corporate and Volunteer Based Projects Francesca Musiani, Caring About the Plumbing: On the Importance of Architectures in Social Studies of (Peer-to-Peer) Technology Michel Bauwens, From the Theory of Peer Production to the Production of Peer Production Theory Jakob Rigi, Peer to Peer Production as the Alternative to Capitalism: A New Communist Horizon Christian Siefkes, Beyond Digital Plenty: Building Blocks for Physical Peer Production Jean Zin, Changing the System of Production Stefan Meretz, Peer Production and Societal Transformation: Ten Patterns Developed by the Oekonux Project Maurizio Teli, Peer Production and Societal Transformation: A Practice-Based Perspective Toni Prug, A Note on Evaluation Processes for Social Phenomena with Ambitious Claims