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OKCON 2011 in Berlin - who have plans to come? (next week!)
by elf Pavlik 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hello, I've just received confirmation that I can participate in upcoming OKCon by volounteering to help with some tasks =) I see Michel has talk first day at 18:00, looking forward to finaly meet you in person! I've also notticed workshops with Christian Siefkes and Stefan Meretz who I had already meet in Berlin. I wonder who else from this mailing list has plans to participate through physical presence ;) How about trying to meet all together at some point, maybe for lunch? Looking forward to see many of you in Berlin next week! =) elf Pavlik (living strictly moneyless already for over 2 years) http://wwelves.org/perpetual-tripper http://moneyless-world.info http://hackers4peace.net

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friends without borders, peace through facebook
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

via the starfish and spider newsletter, Maria Sipka's Column *“Friends Without Borders” is Catalyzing Friending in Conflict Zones to Create World Peace* By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, can we decrease world conflict in the short and long term? Yes. Some interesting phenomena unfolded recently during a peace research innovation across eight countries in conflict or post-conflict transition. These countries (India, Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, Greece, Turkey, Albania and Serbia) identified friending patterns on the social networking site Facebook. The results are astounding! Take a look for yourself and see real-time results published on Facebook’s Peace on Facebook page<http://beckstromwiki.com/starfishreport/link.php?M=3438&N=7&L=39&F=H>, of friend connections created each day between people of different countries, religions, and political affiliations. [image: maria1.jpg] It’s interesting to compare the level of friending in relation to the Facebook populations in these paired countries: *Israel + Palestine: *High level of Facebook populations and high level of cross-conflict friending. Great peace-building potential! *Greece + Turkey: *High level of Facebook populations and very low level of cross-conflict friending. A great deal of effort will need to be invested to build connections here. *Albania + Serbia (post-conflict transition): *High level of Facebook populations and very high level of cross-conflict friending. Fantastic level of connections. *India + Pakistan: *Very low level of Facebook population and very low level of cross-conflict friending. Great effort to cultivate friending and hard work on peace-building here. Social development advisor Jane Chesher<http://beckstromwiki.com/starfishreport/link.php?M=3438&N=7&L=32&F=H>has been awarded a UNESCO “Power of Peace” initiative grant to catalyze a powerful global outreach campaign to foster cross-conflict friendships among youth 14-25 years in each region. The initiative is titled Friends Without Borders<http://beckstromwiki.com/starfishreport/link.php?M=3438&N=7&L=36&F=H> . Partnering with Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab and Facebook, the project’s goal is to promote peace, respect, trust and empowerment between youth from opposing countries in the four geographic conflicts shown on the info graphic below using social networking, film and story. [image: maria2.jpg] Since the launch of peace.facebook.com in August 2010, the volume of friend connections made each day in the conflict countries has doubled. Today there are over 100,000 new friend connections made every day across the conflicts. The Friends Without Borders<http://beckstromwiki.com/starfishreport/link.php?M=3438&N=7&L=36&F=H>movement will scale up and empower the connections by creating a safe and fun online space to expand the network through peer influence, trust and respect for the “other.” Facebook analytics will be used to track the impact of the campaign, along with traffic data provided by promotional ads and links, including partner outreach. If you would like to learn more about the Friends Without Borders<http://beckstromwiki.com/starfishreport/link.php?M=3438&N=7&L=36&F=H>initiative and become involved you can contact Jane <http://beckstromwiki.com/starfishreport/link.php?M=3438&N=7&L=33&F=H>through her website. -- 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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spanish social network ..
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

perhaps someone could report on this for the p2p blog? Alejandro <skoria(a)gmail.com> Jun 23 06:31AM -0700 ^<?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#130bcda4d7035656_digest_top> Hi All, I'm just cross posting this message from a few days ago, trying to spread awareness of the Lorea and N-1 projects - more explanation below! Hope it's of interest, and feel free to get in touch if you'd like to know more! Alejandro On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Alejandro <skoria(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, First of all, I think this is a great idea, and I wish I could go or send someone from this project! I'd like to invite you all to join one of the various Lorea seeds you can find at http://lorea.cc/ To explain this cryptic language, Lorea means "Flower" in Basque, and it is a set of plugins for the php based open source social network Elgg. They extend it alongside, and beyond the aims of Diaspora, following the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari. It's main use is currently as the N-1 network ( https://n-1.cc/ ) - one of the coordination tools that is currently being used (besides regular online tools like twitter and facebook), by the assemblarian #15m movement based in Spain and beyond. It had been active for around a year, and many of the organisations that sprang to help out when word spread that the camps had started, were already using Lorea based networks as a shared non commercial space. It provides, as a basic set of services, chat, piratepads, a task system forums, wikis, groups, and ways to upload and link to different media, sharing it all on an internal microblogging wire which is now Ostatus enabled. https://bitbucket.org/rhizomatik There are various different lorea "seeds" - as in, implemented social network "confederates". Each one is a fully functional social network in many ways. The project comes from Sevilla mostly, but also now is being developed across the rest of Spain, and beyond. Together all these things provide ways to federate information between different social networks. There is now a moving "Hackaton" - a hacking marathon centred on improving N-1 - which saw an increase of about 10000 members in a week, and is growing rapidly. The hackaton just left Madrid, and has reached Barcelona, where it's taking place at the Barcelona Hackerspace, next stop Valencia later this week. The hackaton is based around creating a participative democracy toolkit, so that the various assembly acts being posted online can be shared in more intelligent ways, perhaps allowing different ways to show who voted for each proposal in any one assembly, or showing what different opinions are from one area to another. The participative democracy assemblies of all the city camps, which have now spread to the local neighbourhoods or "barrios" are run according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making#Hand_signals For each proposal brought to an assembly, there is twinkling of hands from the people who approve, followed by barred hands from those who disapprove, and to keep things moving when the chatter gets going, hands turn in a revolving to politely move things along. I think this all provides a rich experimental ground for development - there are many things we could be using or are in development, like geolocation, an RDF mapping for the democracy data, scalable high performance location awareness, there's room for everyone! :) Personally I would love to do something to do with mapping resource transactions - towards participative aspects to an economy as well. The 15m movement is to me a mass movement to reconsider democracy and see if we can get closer to a more direct, participative version of it. In doing it, there are lots of different ideas, that sometimes even disagree with each other. I think this is healthy, and I hope there will be interest from people here in starting new seeds, and working with us both in activism towards figuring out what "post capitalism" is and in making Lorea networks all the more open, positive ways to coordinate spontaneous social movements. Here is an interview with one of the developers on the Ostatus aspect: http://ostatus.org/2010/08/05/ostatus-interview-pablo-martin Thanks to all who are helping with this conference! Ale Fernandez -- 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: Currency Design Workshop at Findhorn, Scotland, 3-7 September 2011
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Rogers <john.rogers(a)valueforpeople.co.uk> Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:03 AM Subject: Currency Design Workshop at Findhorn, Scotland, 3-7 September 2011 To: John Rogers <john.rogers(a)valueforpeople.co.uk> ** Hello* * *We are the community. We are the economy. We are the planet.* How do we support local community economies that serve people and planet? At Findhorn Eco-village in September we aim to find answers to this question together. *Watch a short video*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MepzD9Xfp1Q *Find out more and make a booking:* http://www.findhorncollege.org/programmes/onthemoney.php *Help* us to get our *minimum number of 9 participants by August 3rd* to make the workshop happen. Please *forward* to your networks. Many thanks and best wishes! John Rogers and Leander Bindewald, workshop facilitators. APOLOGIES for not including an UNSUBSCRIBE option on previous mails. *If you DO NOT wish to receive further messages* *about Value for People events*, *please send an EMPTY message to* <a href="mailto:[email protected]" <news-unsubscribe(a)valueforpeople.co.uk></a>." -- 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: easyswap : a platform for the exchange of goods and services
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Thank you Dante, Sepp, probably worth looking at for its currency, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:38 AM Subject: easyswap : a platform for the exchange of goods and services To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com https://www.easyswap.org/en "easyswap is a platform for the exchange of goods and services, which enables you to give value to dormant skills (in the form of services) and goods (through rental or sale), within a secured framework. How? By means of a complementary and entirely free currency: the swap." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henry Date: 2011/6/26 Subject: [gtm] C'est une monnaie complémentaire avec la définition de local paramétrable. To: gtmonnaie(a)gtmonnaie.be https://www.easyswap.org/fr<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://www.easyswap.org/fr> Le concept est surprenant, le site est très abouti. Quelqu'un en sait-il plus sur le projet ? Déjà 3800 inscrits, la presse suisse en parle. Bonne découverte. Henry -- 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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general request for extra blogging during berlin trip
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Dear friends, This is a good time to consider extra contributions to the p2p blog! Some specific requests: - Amaia and Chris, could you look at http://artificialeyes.tv/blog/2; Chris perhaps you could look at the artwork? Amaia, perhaps you could look at the whole series of wikileaks insider interviews posted there? the idea is to embed one and mention the others? see already http://p2pfoundation.net/Wikileaks_Interviews - Dear Kevin: an extra installment of your book serialization would be great, by the way, the last chapter 7 got many retweets .. 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 bk: share or die
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jun '11

26 Jun '11

http://p2pfoundation.net/Share_Or_Die ; http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2011/06/share-or-die-new-e-book-released.… hi franco, are we making any progress on featuring this as book of the week? 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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digital to analog process of spanish revolt
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jun '11

26 Jun '11

'historical details' at http://www.opendemocracy.net/bernardo-guti%C3%A9rrez/how-divided-spain-star… amaia: twitter address of author is below the article, 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: Psy Commons eipnosis page: Exploring the relations between therapy and p2p: towards a psychological commons
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jun '11

26 Jun '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Denis Postle <d.postle(a)btinternet.com> Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:14 PM Subject: Psy Commons eipnosis page To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> ** Hello Michel, Here is the address of the page where I have posted a linked version of the psy commons chapter: http://ipnosis.postle.net/pages/PsychoCommonsOutline.htm Thanks for taking an interest in the notion. The title and publisher of the book in which it appears are not yet settled but it will probably be called THERAPY FUTURES. Greetings Denis -- 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: Peak preview: Online Community on Free Technologies (at FTA Campus)
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jun '11

26 Jun '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wouter Tebbens <wouter(a)freeknowledge.eu> Date: 2011/6/6 Subject: Peak preview: Online Community on Free Technologies (at FTA Campus) Dear Franco, I ninged this, can you also announce on regular blog, post-dated july 5 or after? Michel Dear friends and colleagues, maybe you've heard it already: we have been working to set up an online community about Free Technology. A community portal hosted by the Free Technology Academy, completely based on Free Software and integrated in its online campus. It's an informal social networking space where people can participate in (and create) groups to learn, discuss and work together about Free Technology. Some examples of activities that you could find there (but don't feel limited by this short list!): * discuss and share knowledge about Free Software, Standards, Hardware, Data, Networks, ... * share knowledge about Free Software Policymaking * discuss about the FTA study programme, campus and help it make better * participate in the definition of a common curriculum about Free Technologies * propose complementary courses * get in touch with likeminded people from all over the world, from many different backgrounds Come and have a look! 1) register a free campus account: http://campus.ftacademy.org/ 2) go to the /community/ frontpage and login: http://campus.ftacademy.org/** community/ <http://campus.ftacademy.org/community/> 3) set up your profile, portfolio, include your rss feeds, microblogging services, follow your friends or contacts and check out the various tools. And there's an introductory guide: http://campus.ftacademy.org/** wiki/index.php/Community_**Portal:_Introductory_guide<http://campus.ftacademy.org/wiki/index.php/Community_Portal:_Introductory_g…> I hope you like it and see you around! best, -- Wouter Tebbens -- Free Knowledge Institute /Unlocking the knowledge society/ http://freeknowledge.eu/ Free Technology Academy /Online education about Free Software/ http://ftacademy.org/ -- 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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