Hi George Wow, this is fantastic news. It is wonderful that you, Vasilis and Michel and others are having this opportunity. So, my first reaction is yes!, of course, a JoPP issue would make perfect sense, provided it does have some reflexive, self-critical elements (why Ecuador? what is the political economy there? etc). I hope everyone else will agree and I hope you will not mind my sharing this exciting message with the journal list... Re. timing, my personal preference would be to interfere as little as possible with our biannual release schedule: so far we have consistently released in Dec/Jan and in June/July (including once when we released two issues simultaneously - 1 and 2 in July 2012 - which actually gets people's attention quite a bit I think). So, this is what is is planned: Jan 2014: value/currency July 2014: shared machine shops Jan 2015: law and disruption So, if we were going to fit with the biannual schedule,* your proposed release date could be brought forward to July 2014, postponed a bit to Jan 2015 (in which case it would be released at the same time as these other ones) or postponed more, to July 2015 in which case it would be a single release: maybe more time for additional content and analysis though a delayed socio-political impact? Anyway, I'm excited by this project, eager to hear more from you, and curious to see what others think about it. cheers, Mathieu * Another possibility would be to treat this as a "one-off" exceptional issue and disregard the biannual schedule. ________________________________________ From: george dafermos [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 15:24 To: Mathieu ONeil Cc: Vasilis Kostakis Subject: How about a JoPP special issue on Ecuadorian p2p developments? Dear Mathieu, I'm writing from Ecuador, where I arrived about a week ago to work on the Floksociety project (you must have read something about it on the Internet: the research project tasked with developing policies for the transformation of Ecuador into the direction of the commons and peer-to-peer...) with Michel Bauwens. I'm writing you because we would like to do a special issue of the Journal of Peer Production on the topic of 'transition policies towards a society of the commons: the case of Ecuador' with me and Vasilis Kostakis as editors. What we're thinking of is an issue that includes 7 contributions: -the floksociety research is divided into five streams, so each stream coordinator will contribute a paper -Michel B. who is the research director, will contribute a paper too -The editors (Vasilis and I) will contribute the usual introduction. As to the time-frame, we could use a process that's more or less as follows: -authors send their papers by the end of March 2014 -submitted papers are reviewed by the editors (and maybe by other JoPP reviewers as well) who will send their feedback to the authors by the end of May 2014. Authors have to make the necessary changes and re-submit the updated papers by the end of July 2014. -the issue goes live on the web in September 2014. What do you think: would something like that be doable? Let me know. x, g.