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open enterprise and bettermeans
by Michel Bauwens 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

has anyone seen this, seems quite thought-true: http://bettermeans.org/front/learn-more/open-enterprise-manifesto/ comments are welcome? 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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new capitalism and commoning
by Michel Bauwens 04 May '11

04 May '11

I got this from Pat Kane, an initiative that resonates with Umair Haque's Capitalist Manifesto See: http://fearlessrevolution.com/blog/introducing-common.html "Benefiting people, communities, society, the environment and future generations is the new advantage in business. Our *new capitalist* brand is about transitioning from competitive advantage to collaborative advantage. COMMON is a brand that is community designed, community owned, and community directed. It is a single open source brand — a living network — for rapidly prototyping many progressive businesses that unleash creativity to solve social problems." Michel's comments: why is this interesting, well, in the context of the stress that our friends like Massimo and Silvia Federico place on opposing 'capitalist commons' my question is the following, generally, as I don't know much about this particular initiative: - are these people 'enemies' simply because they are 'pro-capitalist' - or are they friends because their heart is in the right place, and they want to create and share value, and have generally progressive social goals This is not just a matter of analysis, but also of language, and it poses a key question: should a new 'hegemony' (not the right word, I know, but even in a distributed world, something like that does exist) for a progressive commons approach, not necessarily include progressive social and other enterpreneurs ? My answer would tend to be yes, as many young people in the West, but even outside the West, especially here in East Asia, think that way; they want to see progress, don't believe in old-style socialism, believe in cooperation and sharing, but believe only free enterpreneurship offers progress and dynamism for their society and their own projects. Such an approach would require an analysis that distinguished exploitative commons approaches, from genuine commons; but also in a language that doesn't construct such people as enemies, and a pragmatic openness. To come back to the notion of capitalist/anticapitalist commons, through an example. Take the free software movement, a movement of a particular labour aristocracy, that has resulted in the creation of a strong commons, strong relatively autonomous communities, but also with a strong ecology of supportive corporate entities, that both profit from those commons, but also, pay wages to free software developers, practice various forms of benefit sharing, and support the communities and commons in various ways. (this of course needs to be problematized, but nevertheless, this is an important side of the equation) So here we have a commons that is both instrumental to corporate entities and 'capitalism', but also beneficial in substantial ways to a particular type of knowledge workers. In this scenario, both sides have both concurring and antagonistic interests. The model of the free software movement is not unique, as it is now largely replicated in many other open knowledge, open design and open manufacturing projects, for whom it served as a successfull template I'm not advocating either uncritical support of the model, nor a pure antagonistic approach, but rather an approach that starts with the interests of the peer producing communities and their commons, and looks at how they can optimally reproduce within current economic and power structures, and advance their goals, step by step, until they are stronger to achieve more fundamental transformations, In many cases, the creation of a successful ecology of corporate entities, and the attraction of progressive young enterpreneurs who may be willing to create non profit maximisation market-operating entitities, will be a sine qua non for the social reproduction and growth of the concrete commons and their contributors/users 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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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OKCon 2011 Submission deadline extended
by Daniel Dietrich 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Dear all, As you might know, we're busily preparing the schedule for this year's OKCon, which is going to be in Berlin on the 30th June and 1st July. We have had quite some people asking to extend the deadline for submission. So here is your chance: Submissions will be open until Mai, 9th at midnight. http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ If you have something interesting but *really* can't make it to this deadline please contact us at okcon(a)okfn.org - we might make an exception. If you haven't already seen it you can check out the Call for Participation http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/ I'm also writing to say that we'd really like you (yes: you!) to come! Registration is open at: http://okcon2011.eventbrite.com/ All the best, Daniel Following is a sneak preview of Speakers and Programme (please note this is not jet all confirmed). Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) Andreas Meiszner (United Nations University) Chris Bizer (Free University Berlin) Chris Taggart (Openly Local) David Bollier (On the Commons) Georgia Angelaki (Europeana) Glyn Moody (Technology Writer) James Boyle (Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School) Jaron Rowan (FCForum) Jordan Hacher (Open Data Commons) Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation) Michelle Thorne (Creative Commons) Nigel Shadbolt (Professor of Artificial Intelligence) Nina Paley (Artist & Filmmaker) Pippa Buchanan (School of Webcraft with Mozilla and P2PU) Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation) Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge Foundation) Till Kreuzer (iRights) Tom Lee (Sunlight Foundation) Wouter Tebbens (Free Knowledge Institute) Also the draft programme is starting to get shape and will be published very soon. -- Daniel Dietrich The Open Knowledge Foundation Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org Mail: daniel.dietrich(a)okfn.org Mobil: +49 171 780 870 3 Skype: ddie22 Twitter: @ddie

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[video, FSW] cool video by Markus of Project Danube
by elf Pavlik 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hello Deer Peers ;) FSW - Federated Social Web about which I will send more info to the list in next email, including details of upcoming conference in Berlin (June 3-5th) Here I would like to share a link to video by Markus Sabadello which I liked a lot: http://vimeo.com/13071959 I cc him here, you may also like to check two of his projects: http://versionvega.com http://projectdanube.org/ Enjoy! =) elf Pavlik http://wwelves.org/perpetual-tripper

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mindfield on free culture
by Michel Bauwens 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

hi chris, could you check if the quality is okay, and if so, put out on our blog as well? see http://audioboo.fm/boos/344516-michel-bauwens-p2p-foundation-talking-at-min… -- 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: [Commoning] hardt on social and ecological commons
by Michel Bauwens 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

for article by michael hardt http://www.duke.edu/web/polygraph/poly22.html<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.duke.edu/web/polygraph/poly22.h…> ariel salleh on meta-industrial labour http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/twine/ecofem/SallehPolygraph.pdf<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/twine/ecofem/…> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dr.woooo <dr.woooo(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:06 AM Subject: [Commoning] hardt on social and ecological commons To: commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de https://groups.google.com/group/socialwar-energy-climatewar/browse_thread/t… _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de http://lists.wissensallmende.de/mailman/listinfo/commoning -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] P2P Foundation
by Michel Bauwens 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

thanks Carol On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Carol Brown <bcarol83(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michel, > > > > We would love to share with you an article that we just posted on our own > blog! “*15 Terrific TED Talks for New Media Students*” ( > http://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/04/26/15-terrific-ted-talks-for-new-media…) would be an interesting story for your readers to check out and discuss on > your blog. > > > > Thanks for sharing some great content through your blog. It has been a > sincere pleasure to read. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > Carol Brown > -- 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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michigan developments
by Michel Bauwens 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

hi sam, you haven't yet featured the internationally underreported michigan situation yet, this would be a good starting point, http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/video-virg-bernero-on-rachel-maddow-warni… -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] Seven Promises--proposed for broadest possible discussion
by Michel Bauwens 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

thanks Robert, I will be looking into this! On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Robert Steele < robert.david.steele.vivas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > John Steiner, a wise voice that I listen to, suggests that I put this > forward for discussion, as a "platform" for others to consider in their > deliberations and participation in the now beginning electoral process. I > would be glad if you find this worth circulating in any form. I am no > longer blogging for the Huffington Post, anyone who is, feel free to do > something with this. Robert > Seven Promises to America–Who Will Do This?<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/04/seven-promises-to-america-who-will-do-th…>Full > Text with links below. > Seven Promises to America–Who Will Do This?<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/04/seven-promises-to-america-who-will-do-th…> > Categories: 11 Society<http://www.phibetaiota.net/category/journal/policies/11-society/> > ,About the Idea <http://www.phibetaiota.net/category/media-coverage/>,Advanced > Cyber/IO<http://www.phibetaiota.net/category/journal/information-operations-io/advan…> > ,Civil Society<http://www.phibetaiota.net/category/journal/communities/civil-journal/> > ,Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices<http://www.phibetaiota.net/category/journal/training/counter-oppressioncoun…> > ,Cultural Intelligence<http://www.phibetaiota.net/category/journal/collaboration/culturalintel/> > ,Ethics <http://www.phibetaiota.net/category/journal/ethics/>,Officers > Call <http://www.phibetaiota.net/category/journal/officers-call/>,Strategy<http://www.phibetaiota.net/category/journal/training/strategy-reader/> > <http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/04/whos-who-in-collective-intelligence-robe…> > > Robert David STEELE Vivas > > Over the course of the past decade, as I have turned to non-fiction reading > and reflections on integrity and intelligence, I have come to realize just > how corrupt the US Government is at the political level, and how compliant > the good people are that are trapped within a very bad system. > > Below are the seven promises I would demand of anyone who aspires to be > President of the United States of America. I know of no one else who can > credibly commit to these seven promises. > > 1. Electoral Reform (9 points, 1 page)<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/12/reference-election-reform-one-page-nine-…> > > 2. End of taxation, implement Automated Payment Transaction (APT) Tax<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/04/us-goverment-2011-revenue-costs-debt/> > > 3. Select a Coalition Cabinet prior to the primaries, to participate in > general debates<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-david-steele/virtual-president-announc…> > > 4. Create a balanced budget using participatory budgeting that fully > engages all voters<http://www.oss.net/dynamaster/file_archive/081206/cdebd4773282bd9f0562938cc…> > > 5. Full Employment for all US citizens, retooling for sustainable > resilience <http://duckduckgo.com/?q=full+employment+sustainable> > > 6. Illegal workers will be deported at the expense of those who hired > them with 100X fine<http://duckduckgo.com/?q=illigal+workers+employers+expense> > > 7. End of Empire<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/11/2010-the-ultimate-hack-re-inventing-inte…>, > global Autonomous Internet<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/04/autonomous-internet/>, > empower the five billion poor with free cell phones<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/04/2010/12/2010-m4is2-briefing-for-south-am…>, > free access to call centers and virtual networks that educate “one cell call > at a time,” commit to total transparency, “true cost” economics<http://duckduckgo.com/?q=true+cost+economics>, > the eradication of corruption<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/04/search-cost-of-corruption-corruption-rec…>, > and an end to US Government coddling of the 42 of 44 dictators that are > “best pals” of the corrupt political-financial “elite”<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2003/11/breaking-the-real-axis-of-evil-how-to-ou…>who have destroyed > the Republic<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-us-fraud-re…>for their own selfish benefits. Somewhere in here, create the Open > Source Agency<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/11/reference-open-source-agency-osa/>under diplomatic auspices, shut down the dysfunctional > secret intelligence community<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/12/graphic-tony-zinni-on-4-at-best/>, > rebalance the instruments of national power<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/2008/05/2008-rebalancing-the-instruments…>, > and redirect defense spending<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/2001/07/2001-threats-strategy-and-force-…>to the four > forces after next<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/04/2011/01/graphic-four-forces-after-next-w…> > . > > There is nothing here about confiscation of ill-gotten gains. Confiscating > all that money would be a waste of time because even if distributed it would > be a few dollars for every poor person. What matters is that we start doing > the right things now. In combination, the APT Tax and the eradication of > the false inflated prices for the 75 top drugs bought by Medicare (available > for 1% of what we pay to those outside the USA) will wipe out the deficit, > rebuild America, and fully fund an Open Source Agency<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/11/reference-open-source-agency-osa/>and a $250 billion a year Program 50 (Diplomacy & Development). > > I am looking for a Presidential candidate that will make these seven > promises. If one cannot be found, I am available and mobile. What does it > say about a country when not a single person now serving can credibly make > these seven promises? > > *Robert David STEELE Vivas* > > -- 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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an open data network of radiation sensors in Japan
by Michel Bauwens 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gael Van Weyenbergh <stroombank(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:53 PM Subject: RDTN.org: Radiation Detection Hardware Network in Japan To: Dante Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com>, Michel Bauwens < michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> FYI if you didn't come across it yet! http://www.rdtn.org/ Safecast is an open data network of radiation sensors. "The long-term goal of this project is to create a network of radiation sensors that can provide real-time data both in times of a crisis and beyond." They do have a Kickstarter campaign<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1038658656/rdtnorg-radiation-detection-…>ending in 9 days. Best, Gaël -- 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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