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Fwd: February Issue of OSBR Available
by Michel Bauwens 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris McPhee <chris.mcphee(a)osbr.ca> Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:23 AM Subject: February Issue of OSBR Available To: Chris McPhee <chris.mcphee(a)osbr.ca> Dear Readers, The editorial theme for the February 2011 issue of the OSBR is Recent Research and it is now available at osbr.ca. In this issue, we have the following articles: Carlo Daffara, head of research at Conecta, describes the factors to consider when selecting a license to suit both business objectives and licensing constraints. Monique Bardawil from Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program outlines her recent research to identify key players in the mashup ecosystem, where businesses must develop appropriate strategies based on an accurate understanding of the structure of the ecosytem and the role of its key players. Amanda Shiga, CMS Practice Lead at non~linear creations, presents her research into the competitive actions taken by API providers in the mashup ecosystem. Islam Balbaa, Technical Business Analyst at Kinaxis, describes his recent research into the fit between software-as-a-service products and the requirements of particular business units. Chulaka Ailapperuma, Senthilkumar Mukunda, and Shruti Satsangi from Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program illustrate how social network analysis can be used to study online communities, including free/libre open source software developer teams. The editorial theme for the upcoming March issue is Co-creation. We have invited authors from the Research Forum to Understand Business in Knowledge Society to contribute to this special issue. The Guest Editors will be Stoyan Tanev from the University of Southern Denmark and Marko Seppä from the University of Jyväskylä. For subsequent issues, we welcome general submissions on the topic of open source business or the growth of early-stage technology companies. Please contact me (chris.mcphee(a)osbr.ca) if you are interested in submitting an article. Kind regards, Chris McPhee Editor, Open Source Business Resource http://www.osbr.ca If you no longer wish to receive email notifications from the OSBR, please send your request by email and I will unsubscribe you. ________________________________________________________________________ Open Source Business Resource http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: [Dakar] Copy South workshop at WSF Dakar on 8 Feb
by Michel Bauwens 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frédéric Sultan <fredericsultan(a)gmail.com> Date: 2011/2/1 Subject: [Dakar] Copy South workshop at WSF Dakar on 8 Feb To: Dakar <dakar(a)bienscommuns.org> Cc: Chris Armstrong <c.g.armstrong(a)gmail.com> Hello, Please, find below information about copyright issues workshop organised by The Copy South Research Group at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Dakar next week and supported by people of ACA2K Senegal team. Thanks to Chris Armstrong and Hervé Le Crosnier for the information. Best Fred ..................... > > Workshop of copyright issues at the World Social Forum (Dakar, Senegal) > > Tuesday, 8 February 16h00 to 19h00 > > > A workshop to examine the negative effects of copyright on the peoples > of Africa, including Senegal, and how these restrictive laws prevent the > sharing of knowledge and culture. We will look at how copyright impacts > negatively on libraries, schools and students, musicians and other > cultural workers. > > > Interpretation in French, English and Wolof > > > Sponsoring organisation: The Copy South Research Group www.copysouth.org > <http://www.copysouth.org/> > > > Alan Story > contact(a)copysouth.org <mailto:[email protected]%C2%A0> > _______________________________________________ Dakar mailing list Dakar(a)bienscommuns.org http://bienscommuns.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dakar -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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preprogramming mass movements
by Michel Bauwens 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi Tiberius, I wonder if you could republish this in our p2p foundation blog as well? James in cc can give you access, Michel see https://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/towards-leaderles… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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very important intitiative for independent internet
by Michel Bauwens 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Sepp: can you report on this, they seem to be able to do great work, and fast, an exemplary wiki: http://werebuild.eu/wiki/Main_Page -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: News Advisory: Liberal & Progressive Jews Support the Egyptian Uprising
by Michel Bauwens 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rabbi Michael Lerner <rabbilerner(a)tikkun.org> Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:30 AM Subject: News Advisory: Liberal & Progressive Jews Support the Egyptian Uprising To: Michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Tikkun<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6roJ3gVoHyMewyIyCJhN…> to heal, repair and transform the world *A note from Rabbi Michael Lerner** * Join or Donate Now!<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SbmAWyZ2nN4xY7%2B%2B…> News Advisory: Release Feb. 1, 2011 For interviews: call Mike Godbe at 510 644 1200 or mike(a)Tikkun.org *Why Jews Around the World are Praying for the Victory of the Egyptian Uprising * * <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=u8QOfsnthllLDAmMeGeQ…> * * * * *Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine and chair of The Tikkun Community, affirmed today (Feb. 1, 2011) that there is a growing upsurge of support for the Egyptian Uprising in the Jewish community. Rabbi Lerner issued the following statement: Ever since the victory over the dictator of Tunisia and the subsequent uprising in Egypt, my email has been flooded with messages from Jews around the world hoping and praying for the victory of the Egyptian people over their cruel Mubarak regime. Though a small segment of Jews have responded to right-wing voices from Israel that lament the change and fear that a democratic government would bring to power fundamentalist extremists who wish to destroy Israel and who would abrogate the hard-earned treaty that has kept the peace between Egypt and Israel for the last 30 years, the majority of Jews are more excited and hopeful than worried. Of course, the worriers have a point. Israel has allied itself with repressive regimes in Egypt and used that alliance to ensure that the borders with Gaza would remain closed while Israel attempted to economically deprive the Hamas regime there by denying needed food supplies and equipment to rebuild after Israel’s devastating attack in December 2008 and January 2009. If the Egyptian people take over, they are far more likely to side with Hamas than with the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Yet it is impossible for Jews to forget our heritage as victims of another Egyptian tyrant—the Pharoah whose reliance on brute force was overthrown when the Israelite slaves managed to escape from Egypt some 3,000 years ago. That story of freedom retold each year at our Passover “Seder” celebration, and read in synagogues in the past month, has often predisposed the majority of Jews to side with those struggling for freedom around the world. To watch hundreds of thousands of Egyptians able to throw off the chains of oppression and the legacy of a totalitarian regime that consistently jailed, tortured or murdered its opponents so overtly that most people were cowed into silence, is to remember that the spark of God continues to flourish no matter how long oppressive regimes manage to keep themselves in power, and that ultimately the yearning for freedom and democracy cannot be totally stamped out no matter how cruel and sophisticated the elites of wealth, power and military might appear to be. Many Jews have warned Israel that it is a mistake to ally with these kinds of regimes, just as we’ve warned the US to learn the lesson from its failed alliance with the Shah of Iran. We’ve urged Israel to free the Palestinian people by ending the Occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza. Israel’s long-term security will not be secured through military or economic domination, but only by acting in a generous and caring way toward the Palestinian people first, and then toward all of its Arab neighbors. Similarly, America’s homeland security will best be achieved through a strategy of generosity and caring, manifested through a new Global Marshall Plan such as has been introduced into the House of Representatives by Congressman Keith Ellison. In normal times, when the forces of repression seem to be winning, this kind of thinking is dismissed as “utopian” by the “realists” who shape public political discourse. But when events like the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt occur, for a moment the politicians and media are stunned enough to allow a different kind of thinking to emerge, the kind of thinking that acknowledged that underneath all the “business as usual” behavior of the world’s peoples, the yearning for a world based on solidarity, caring for each other, freedom, self-determination, justice, non-violence and yes, even love and generosity, remains a potent and unquenchable thirst that may be temporarily repressed but never fully extinguished. It is this recognition that leads many Jews to join with the rest of the world’s peoples in celebrating the uprising, in praying that it does not become manipulated by the old regime into paths that too quickly divert the hopes for a brand new kind of order into politics and economics as usual, or into extremist attempts to switch the anger from domestic elites who have been the source of Egyptian oppression onto Jews or Israel which have not been responsible for the suffering of the Egyptian people. Such extremists could easily be marginalized were Israel to take definitive action to accept the peace terms offered by the Palestinians in 2007-8 and known to the world through the release of relevant documents by Al-Jazeera, and were the US in conjunction with Israel to announce a Global Marshall Plan with first location being the Middle East. Such a plan has been developed in some detail by the Network of Spiritual Progressives. We hope that Egyptians will hear the news that they have strong support from many in the Jewish world. Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun www.tikkun.org , chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives, and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley, California. He can be reached at RabbiLerner(a)Tikkun.org To read details of the Global Marshall Plan, go to www.spiritualprogressives.org/GMP ------------------------------ web: www.tikkun.org<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BMn%2Fk84Utecv9vHp…> email: info(a)spiritualprogressives.org Click here to stop receiving future emails<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SmAlCGa2KZZMJP8Vynm8…> ------------------------------ Copyright © 2010 Tikkun® / Network of Spiritual Progressives®. 2342 Shattuck Avenue, #1200 Berkeley, CA 94704 510-644-1200 Fax 510-644-1255 [image: empowered by Salsa] <http://www.salsalabs.com/?email> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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extremely rapid popular mobilizations
by Michel Bauwens 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Dear friends, I'm guessing more of our sympathizers are following the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, showing the acceleration of popular mobilizations that are due to the p2p infrastructures. Particularly interesting is the internet blackout in Egypt, and the various ways it has been overcome, Sepp, could you follow these alternatives in Egypt, for a review at some point, for example see http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/egypt-tor-use-skyrocketing-as.php I keep watch of such articles in P2P-Egypt and P2P-Infrastructure, thanks for keeping your eye on that ball, the idea is to have some sheet that can be used in future events, Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: [Dakar] PROGRAM GRAP SEMINAR, WSF DAKAR : Africa and the Crisis of Civilization: ruptures and challenges
by Michel Bauwens 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frédéric Sultan <fredericsultan(a)gmail.com> Date: 2011/2/1 Subject: [Dakar] PROGRAM GRAP SEMINAR, WSF DAKAR : Africa and the Crisis of Civilization: ruptures and challenges To: Dakar <dakar(a)bienscommuns.org> Hello, Please, find below the program for the seminar Africa and the Crisis of Civilization: ruptures and challenges that will connect with a lot of issues linked with Commons. Best Fred GRAP SEMINAR WSF DAKAR 2011 07/02/2011 Africa and the Crisis of Civilization: ruptures and challenges 08/02/2011 I. Search for New Alternative Paradigms to industrial, productivity and consumerist Civilization 1.Decolonization: subverting the dominant order Critical to the pattern of global power Critical to the standard of knowledge of modernity Economics and Eurocentrism: imperial social science 2.Critical to the civilizing ideals of capitalist progress Development: growth, destruction, exclusion and inequity Racist and patriarchal domination >From "having more" to “be more" 3. The ethical imperative for a biocivilization To overcome the disruptions of the biosphere Sustainability of the planet, life and societies x sustainability of development Transforming social relations and productive forces: the inevitable merging of agendas for social justice and sustainability 09/02/2011 II. Agenda of Social Transformation 1.Strategic map of emancipatory struggles The sense of fights for anti mercantilization of the planet, life and the commons Relocation and repossession of power and economy in an interdependent and diverse world: a new architecture of power The care, solidarity and the pursuit of sustainability 2.New articulation of pluralities and diversities Dialogue and construction of platforms for inter social actors and inter cultural action A new political culture based on ethics of rights and shared responsibilities Horizontality and share: freedom of knowledge, dream and action 3.Dialogue with the COPs and Rio + 20 10/02/2010 (Assembly by objectives of the WSF) Moment to summarize proposals, planning and articulate Agenda of the ongoing process Build coalition and call around something to define new horizons for global citizenship in response to proposals on the table for Rio + 20OuvirLer foneticamente Dicionário - Ver dicionário detalhado substantivo orden del día diario 11/02/2010 Final Assembly of the WSF 2011 – Presentation of Proposals and Plans _______________________________________________ Dakar mailing list Dakar(a)bienscommuns.org http://bienscommuns.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dakar -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Attention and Peer Production - pdf
by Michel Bauwens 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

http://p2pfoundation.net/Feedback_Loops_of_Attention_in_Peer_Production thanks Dante! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:20 AM Subject: Attention and Peer Production - pdf To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> *" Feedback loops of attention in peer production "* * * Fang Wu, Dennis M. Wilkinson, and Bernardo A. Huberman HP Labs pdf : www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/*feedback*s/*feedback*s.pdf more : http://www.google.be/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF… excerpts : page 1 *Getting attention paid to one’s contributions is a form of* *value [10]; people are willing to forsake financial gain for it* *[11]. * ... This paper addresses how attention and followers affect contributions to peer production websites, and in particular how they motivate prolific contributors to remain active for a long time. ... page 3 The evidence presented above suggests a strong correla- tion between popularity (attention received) and productivity (tendency to contribute). It is thus natural to ask whether one could develop a model to predict a user’s productivity from her popularity. page 6 - from conclusion : Taken together, our findings suggest that *the feedback loop of attention is an important ingredient* *in a successful of a peer production effort because of its role* *in motivating devoted contributors to persist.* -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Chester Barnard - Resilience ( as organizational efficiency ) through motive satisfaction ?
by Michel Bauwens 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:51 AM Subject: Chester Barnard - Resilience ( as organizational efficiency ) through motive satisfaction ? To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Barnard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Barnard>Barnard looked at organizations as systems of cooperation of human activity, and noted that they are typically short-lived. It is rare for a firm to last more than a century. Similarly most nations last for less than a century. The only organization that can claim a substantial age is the Roman Catholic Church<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church>. According to Barnard, organizations are not long-lived because they do not meet the two criteria necessary for survival: effectiveness<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effectiveness> and efficiency <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_efficiency>. Effectiveness, is defined the usual way: as being able to accomplish stated goals. In contrast, Barnard's meaning of organizational efficiency differed substantially from the conventional use of the word. He defined efficiency of an organization as the degree to which that organization is able to satisfy the motives <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives> of the individuals. If an organization satisfies the motives of its members while attaining its explicit goals, cooperation among its members will last. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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