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Fwd: URGENT! Facebook Choke Point
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Dear friends, We need 25 likes for this project, thanks for helping us: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Pinchen <chris(a)cataspanglish.com> Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:24 PM Subject: URGENT! Facebook Choke Point To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Hey Michel, Need to do this ASAP to get the name before we present the project! I've set up a Choke Point Project Facebook page but we need 25 "likes" to get the desired name. Please go here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Choke-Point-Project/211927728820957 and "like" it and encourage others to do the same... Cheers, Chris *Chris Pinchen* http://cataspanglish.com http://twitter.com/cataspanglish -- 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: [Open Manufacturing] Re: maybe im crazy, but why is most of these projects not working?
by adavans＠aol.com 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

This didn't make it to the Open Manufacturing list, but I thought y'all might find it interesting nonetheless. -----Original Message----- From: adavans(a)aol.com To: openmanufacturing(a)googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 3:32 am Subject: Re: [Open Manufacturing] Re: maybe im crazy, but why is most of these projects not working? I'm going to assume that promoters and principals of the various projects know their fields of interest well and have workable sales and marketing plans at the core of their business plan. If this is generally true then the problems they face pulling themselves off the ground are not that different from what most business people face in the beginning stages of their enterprise. Most businesses fail in the first 3 years of operation. Most of the businesses that fail do so because of improper initial capitalization. Their capitalization was improper because they didn't go beyond the usual circle of 'family, friends and fools' for fundng or they gave a personal guarantee to their banker for inadequate financing with lousy terms, offering up their house, their car and their first born dancing lassy to the banker as security for a usurious loan. Raising money for a business and for projects like the ones that are discussed here requires a team effort. In the United States business people that have investment opportunities to offer to their neighbors need to enlist Broker/Dealers in their efforts. One option for project principals here might be to form or buy one or more broker/dealer firms and make it a captive broker/dealer that does nothing but raise money for your individual projects. That's what folks that drill holes for oil do, and it just makes sense. Another important reason for failure, intimately related to the above, is the lack of a functional framework for collaboration that will allow firms and projects to network easily, and by the word network I mean a set of projects and firms that are sharing business services, human resources, marketing channels and productive capacity. Regards Alan -----Original Message----- From: Lee Nelson <technologiclee(a)gmail.com> To: openmanufacturing(a)googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 10:11 pm Subject: Re: [Open Manufacturing] Re: maybe im crazy, but why is most of these projects not working? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWDerzFiqOo What would it take to bring these projects together? This is more than a collection of tools and processes. It is a life to be lived. http://www.google.com/search?q=walden+2 http://www.google.com/search?q=looking+backwards We need our hackerspaces to be living spaces and and gardens. Factor E farm is a good start. http://www.google.com/search?q=factor+e+farm We should have these all around the world and on the sea, all working together. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open Manufacturing" group. To post to this group, send email to openmanufacturing(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to openmanufacturing+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing?hl=en.

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Fwd: Contact site up and running!
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Venessa Miemis <venessamiemis(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:11 PM Subject: Contact site up and running! To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, Samuel Rose < samuel.rose(a)gmail.com>, richardcadler(a)gmail.com, paulbhartzog(a)gmail.com hi guys, just wanted to give you a heads up that our Contact Summit site is finally up and running. would be great if you could tweet this / share with your communities. rushkoff will probably do a post as an official announcement... i plan to do one too, and i know there is a press release coming. in the meantime, here's the link to the site - http://www.contactcon.com/ you can also check us out on facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Contact-Summit/128409210562480?sk=wall and twitter - @contactcon thanks so much! - venessa -- 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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mind amplification course
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Dear Sam, I just heard of this new course by Howard, could you present it to our readers? 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: {SocialFinance} Introducing ProM: a dating site for the climate action movement... a prototype for open collaboration!
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Suresh Fernando <suresh2323(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:52 PM Subject: {SocialFinance} Introducing ProM: a dating site for the climate action movement... a prototype for open collaboration! To: socialfinance-ecosystem(a)googlegroups.com Cc: openkollab(a)googlegroups.com, cc-pms(a)googlegroups.com, Cooperationcommons(a)googlegroups.com Dear Social Finance Ecosystem, <http://goog_1192541341> Since Venessa Miemis has beaten me to the punch ;-)... it is only appropriate to now introduce you to ProM<http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/pro-m-draftreview0308111>, a dating site for the climate action movement! A distributed team of visionaries, change agents, technologists and, most importantly, those that see the imperative need to develop infrastructure and processes to assist climate change organizations to coordinate their activity, have converged on the development of a project that will take mass collaboration to the next level! * What makes our vision unique is that we are developing matching algorithms and protocols that will connect projects in the same way that personal dating sites make recommendations for people that you should connect with!* In order to accomplish this, we are developing a platform (technology infrastructure, collaboration and Convergence Processes<http://etherpad.openstewardship.net/ConvergenceProcess>) that will enable and assist organizations to converge and align their activity and processes around specific Open Projects<http://cotw.cc/wiki/Open_Project>(and closed ones of course as well). * * - *The details can be found in the attached slide deck (draft being iterated!) which you can also link to here<http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/pro-m-draftreview0308111> .* - *The current status of the project is published here<http://cotw.cc/wiki/Project_Matching> .* - *We run the project through this open Google Group<http://goog_1192541404> . <https://groups.google.com/group/cc-pms?hl=en> If you want greater visibility into our activity, feel free to join!* The ProM team is both developing technology to enable collaboration as well as living our vision by creating a framework and infrastructure that allows us to crowdsource the resource requirements for the project. * We are pioneering the way that open projects of the future will be run!* As Venessa mentioned, we will be presenting ProM<http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/pro-m-draftreview0308111>at the Contact Conference <http://www.contactcon.com/> in NY on Oct. 20th. We look forward to discussing this further with you in advance of this date in order to explore areas of potential collaboration! Last but not least, the Social Finance Ecosystem Google Group<https://groups.google.com/group/socialfinance-ecosystem?hl=en>has been set up to foster a spirit of open collaboration amongst those that are building capacity to support social innovators! Here is the list of represented organizations<https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1vdpwOB47o83G6BAdyMMWaESzMF93TXm7_o…>! We encourage you to invite your best and brightest to this group! We look forward to discussing all of this further... Regards, -- *Suresh Fernando * BLOG <http://sureshf.posterous.com/>, YOUTUBE<http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhum>, OK WEBSITE, <http://openkollab.com>OK FAN PAG <http://goog_1343289408>E<http://www.facebook.com/openkollab?ref=ts#%21/openkollab> , OK GROUP <http://groups.google.ca/group/openkollab>, OK-WE<http://www.wiserearth.org/group/openkollab>, PHILOSOPHY, <http://sureshfernando.wordpress.com> TWITTER, <http://twitter.com/sureshf> FACEBOOK, <http://facebook.com/suresh.fernando>WOTW FAN PAGE<http://www.facebook.com/tedxvancouver?v=wall#%21/pages/The-Way-Of-The-Warri…> LINKEDIN<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=412718&authType=name&authToken=GrUl…>, SLIDESHARE <http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf> * *-------*ProM: Climate Change Project Matching System------* Project Description: http://cotw.cc/wiki/Project_Matching To Join:* *https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/cc-pms* *Workstreams: http://cotw.cc/wiki/CC-PMS_etherpad_index -- 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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ICTs and Community Relief in the Japanese Emergency, call for technical assistance
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Dear Michael, this info came too late and I unsubbed already, but I'm really overwhelmed, an alternative is to send your request at least once to our p2p-f list, and to 'next net' to see who can help there, so I cc both list for this request, if anyone on these lists want to join your efforts and call, they can let you know, Michel On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Colleagues, > > A close Japanese colleague and friend -- Izumi Azu -- is currently in Japan > and is working to help identify and coordinate ICT resources for community > relief. > > He has a lot of skills and contacts with ICTs but more on the governance > and > policy side. He has asked me to introduce him (and the group he is working > with) to resources that might be useful in supporting community self-help > (including through civic governments) in Japan. > > I'm setting up an e-list "Japan-emergency" but that may take a couple of > days for approvals to I've repurposed this disused e-list for the moment to > enable our discussions--I'll transfer subscriptions and relevant e-mails to > the new list once it is up and running. > > I've taken the liberty, based on my past knowledge with you folks to > subscribe you to this list. If you wish not to be included for whatever > reason please send me a private email and I'll remove you immediately. > > For the moment the list is closed but the archives will be open and I'll > circulate that info in due course. > > (Preliminarily I've included folks with contacts in Ushaidi (Don Cameron), > the Stanford Liberation Tech group (Yosem Companys), a group that developed > software resoources out of Katrina (Tara Friedrichs), folks with access to > the community networking movements in the US and beyond (Michael Maranda > and > Steve Clift), someone with access to the range of peer to peer resources > (Michel Bauwens), Katrin Verclas who is in touch with the very wide range > of > wireless/mobile activistis, Ravi Palepu who has good private sector and UN > linkages, and a Japanese Canadian friend (Joy Kogawa) who has access to the > range of Japanese Canadian organizations and individuals. > > Since we are looking to extend the range of contacts and thus access to > possible resources etc. please send along other contacts/emails etc. after > having cleared it with the individuals and I'll add them manually to this > list. > > Perhaps Izumi might give a brief intro to the current situation and > particularly how we as concerned outsiders might be of some assistance. > > (I'm currently in North Eastern Brazil with sometimes difficult e-access to > my responses may be somewhat slower than usual.) > > Best to all, > > Mike > > -- 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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chokepoint update
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Chris, a fair comment by mark petz, can you add some info about what this project is about? Michel Michel Bauwens <https://profiles.google.com/116589201391591303703#buzz> - Twitter <http://twitter.com/mbauwens/statuses/48307269275881472> - Public - Muted mbauwens <http://twitter.com/mbauwens>: Please help the P2P Foundation with this Internet Choke Point project, we need at least 25 'likes': http://ow.ly/4gh9RDelete Mark Petz <https://profiles.google.com/113632267413930396018#buzz> - well it gets no likes from me when it does not say what it is4:11 pmDeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam Michel Bauwens <https://profiles.google.com/116589201391591303703#buzz> - that's a fair point, I will ask chris pinchen to give the details of this project, -- 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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Hate Crime Against Rabbi Lerner: 3rd Attack on His Home
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tikkun <magazine(a)tikkun.org> Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:20 AM Subject: Zionist Extremist Hate Crime Against Rabbi Lerner: 3rd Attack on His Home To: Michelsub2004(a)gmail.com *Zionist Extremist Hate Crime Against Rabbi Lerner: 3rd Attack on His Home and the limits of "freedom of the press"* 3/17/2011, Berkeley, California Only one day after Rabbi Lerner presented the Tikkun Award to South African Justice Richard Goldstone, at a celebration of Tikkun's 25th Anniversary attended by over 600 people at the University of California, Berkeley, Rabbi Lerner's home was again assaulted by extremist Zionist haters who plastered posters over his home once again. This is the 3rd assault on his home since Lerner announced the award to Justice Goldstone whose report on Israel's human rights violations during the Israeli assault on Gaza in Dec. 2008 and Jan.2009 was denounced by the State of Israel and by the AIPAC-dominated House of Representatives last year. You would not have known about the 2nd attack, which was reported to the police but not to the media because Lerner had been advised that not giving the attackers attention might make future attacks less likely. That strategy failed. Each time the posters have sought to display Lerner as either a tool of an evil Goldstone trying to hurt Israel. The current posters were done more professionally than the previous ones, and present a picture of Nazi officers carrying away a Jew. Lerner's name is put on one of the Nazis and "Islamic extremists" is written on the other Nazi, and the innocent Jew is identified as the State of Israel. The perspective of the attackers is clear: "Rabbi Lerner is a Nazi assaulting Israel." That is why the police have labeled this a "hate crime." What "freedom of the press" is there if an editor is subject to this kind of personal harrassment for expressing his views in his editorials and in the gatherings sponsored by the magazine? Anyone concerned about civil liberties should be concerned about this pattern of attacks on the private home of a magazine editor. And for those who believe that there is a new tone of civility in the Jewish world, well....it obviously has not impacted on right wing Zionist extremists. Please note, however, that we do not want to imply in any way that all Zionists are responsible directly or indirectly for this attack. The Zionist community in the U.S., while often demeaning Rabbi Lerner, has not shown any tendency toward violence or physical assaults on his person or property, and in our view would not likely do so. These have been the acts of a small group of extremists, and while the demeaning of Rabbi Lerner and Tikkun may have contributed to the climate in which these extremists believed they could get away with these assaults, there is no reason to believe, and we do not believe, that American Zionists as a whole either intended or approve of this kind of activity. And the Board of Rabbis of Northern California publicly critiqued the last attack on Rabbi Lerner's home as did other Jewish leaders. Assaults on free speech are best met by encouraging more speech. The obvious goal of these attacks is to intimidate and silence Tikkun, and since Tikkun is the largest circulation liberal/progressive Jewish magazine on-line and in print in the entire world, silencing Tikkun would be a huge victory for these extremists. People can assure that Tikkun stays alive by subscribing to Tikkun at www.tikkun.org<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UCFa1XQl11DhCafjTyJH…>, joining Tikkun's interfaith education and social action organization The Network of Spiritual Progressives at www.spiritualprogressives.org<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SLsdPXsiWj84n7OM%2FD…>, making a tax-deductible contribution to Tikkun (checks can be sent to Tikkun, 2342 Shattuck Ave #1200, Berkeley, Ca. 94704--our mailbox, not the actual address of the magazine's office), and/or creating a local study group to read and discuss Tikkun articles every week, every two weeks, or once a month. You can also read Tikkun-on-line by going to our new web magazine each week to read the latest articles. You can also support us by joining other organizations that seek peace and reconciliation between Israel and Palestine, including J. Street, Jewish Voices for Peace, Americans for Peace Now, The New Israel Fund and B'tselem. Thank you for your support. Tikkun Magazine ------------------------------ unsubscribe: Click here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iGZoYq9ce04AJEbq4c0q…> if you are having trouble unsubscribing Click here <kay(a)tikkun.org> Copyright 2010 Tikkun Magazine. Tikkun is a registered trademark. 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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Fwd: Book Announcement, an indian perspective on the meltdown
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Madhyam <madhyamdelhi(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:43 AM Subject: Book Announcement To: *Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement* *Fixing Global Finance* * * A Developing Country Perspective on Global Financial Reforms * * * * *Kavaljit Singh* *THIS BOOK IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD FOR A LIMITED PERIOD! (See Below)* The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the world. The turbulence in financial systems was followed by a significant reduction in real economic activity throughout the world. The crisis has highlighted that financial markets are inherently unstable and market failures have huge economic and social costs. The crisis has renewed debate on the role of global finance and how it should be regulated. The aim of this book is to encourage and stimulate a more informed debate on reforming the global finance. It examines recent developments and problems afflicting the global financial system. From a developing country perspective, it enunciates guiding principles and offers concrete policy measures to create a more stable, equitable and sustainable global financial system. Several innovative measures have been proposed to reform the global finance and to ensure that it serves the real economy. *“The book is an outstanding contribution to the literature on global financial crisis. It is objective, sensitive, sensible, scholarly and yet eminently readable, with unique focus on developing countries. It should be a compulsory reading for policy makers and market participants.” **– * *Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (2003-08)* * * *Contents: * 1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries 3. Recent Trends in International Finance and Developmental Implications 4. The Rise of New Global Players 5. Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk 6. Global Financial Crisis and India 7. Guiding Principles for Building a Stable Global Financial System 8. Global Financial Reforms and Developing Countries 9. Global Financial Reforms and Civil Society: A Bottom up Approach Jointly published by Madhyam (New Delhi) and SOMO (Amsterdam) *THIS BOOK IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD FOR A LIMITED PERIOD! * * * *PDF:* If you wish to download the book in PDF, click on the following link: Click: http://www.madhyam.org.in/admin/tender/FGF2510.pdf *E-Book:* The book is also available in EPUB format for use on many eBook Readers including iPad, iPhone, Kobo, Nook, BeBook and Sony Reader. To download the book in EPUB, visit our website: www.madhyam.org.in For rights, reviews, interviews, postings and other queries related to the book, feel free to contact me: Sudheer Rawat Madhyam New Delhi Phone: 91-11-43036919 Email: madhyamdelhi(a)gmail.com www.madhyam.org.in -- 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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History of property by 'economic' theologian
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Dear friends, I wonder if anyone if familiar with this book, ** Book: Ulrich Duchrow. Property for People, Not for Profit. ZED Books, 2004* see http://p2pfoundation.net/Property_for_People,_Not_for_Profit a review and commentary for our p2p blog would be most appreciated, 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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