September 2011 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

puerta/syntagma joint statement
by Michel Bauwens 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

http://takethesquare.net/2011/09/03/joint-statement-by-puerta-del-sol-econo… Dear Orsan, thanks for republishing this on our blog as well! -- 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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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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integral society book
by Michel Bauwens 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

Dear Nicolas, could you find out more about this book? see http://www.florisbooks.co.uk/book/S.-J.-Goerner/After-the-Clockwork-Univers… http://p2pfoundation.net/Emerging_Science_and_Culture_of_Integral_Society many thanks -- 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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reflections on chaos, asymmetry etc..
by Michel Bauwens 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

Hi Paul, is this worth presenting/discussing on our blog, see http://www.oss.net/dynamaster/file_archive/110827/ac6e4b02413badc36baa44f23… -- 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: Definition : Trans-Modernity - Emerging Integral Culture , and Cultural Creatives
by Michel Bauwens 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:00 AM Subject: Re: Definition : Trans-Modernity - Emerging Integral Culture , and Cultural Creatives To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com Thanks Mamading for these references ! On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Mamading Ceesay <mamading(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Manfred Macx, one of the protagonists of Charles Stross' sci-fi novel > Accelerando is referred to as a "venture altruist". > > http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando… > http://www.harukosama.com/blog/?p=1613 > > Also the notion of social enterprise and being a "social entrepreneur" > seems to have a growing amount of traction, whereas I've never heard > of entredonneur before now. > > The book that introduced me to Integral Culture and Cultural Creatives > was S.G. Goerner's After the Clockwork Universe. > > http://www.florisbooks.co.uk/book/S.-J.-Goerner/After-the-Clockwork-Univers… > > -- > Regards, > Mamading Ceesay > > http://twitter.com/evangineer > -- 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: Do More, Own Less: A Grand Theory of the Sharing Economy - from The Atlantic
by Michel Bauwens 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Hansen <hankaiwen(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:47 AM http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/do-more-own-less-a-gran… -- -- Kevin Hansen, LEED AP, PG Director, Common Healing, the documentary Director, Nicotine Bees, the documentary NicotineBees.com PierreTerre.com http://translate.google.com/ Language Translation Traduzir a linguagem Traducir Idioma ترجمة اللغة 翻译语言 भाषा अनुवाद Перевести язык Çevir Dili Překladač jazyka Oversæt Sprog Vertalen Taal Tõlgi keel Isalin ang Wika Käännä kieli Traduire la langue Übersetzen Sprache Μετάφραση Γλώσσας Tradui Lang תרגם שפה भाषा अनुवाद Translate nyelv Terjemahkan Bahasa Traduci Lingua 翻訳言語 번역 언어 Terjemah Bahasa ترجمه زبان Tłumacz języka Превод језика Prekladač jazyka Lugha kutafsiri แปลภาษา Провести мову Dịch ngôn ngữ Traduzir a linguagem -- 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] couchsurfing controversy update
by Michel Bauwens 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

great, I have incorporated the material, thanks very much On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:06 AM, robin <robokow(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Cool. > I would include these two links somewhere in the first sentence, > > Here is a first entry into the debate rocking the Couchsurfing > community, via Shareable: > > Original pressrelease: > http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/idUS184215+25-Aug-2011+BW20110825 > > After going for-profit, CouchSurfing faces user revolt > > http://gigaom.com/2011/09/01/after-going-for-profit-couchsurfing-faces-user… > > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> > wrote: > > > > I can't remember who I asked to cover the couchsurfing story, and in > fact, the whole peer hospitality scene would warrant a series of articles, > but here is a first approach already on the blog later today, but thanks for > continuing to work on a more expanded and detailed article, or covering some > details of it: > > > > via http://shareable.net/blog/the-rise-of-the-not-just-for-profit > > > > On Couchsurfing becoming a B Corporation: the controversy > > > > Tags: [empty] > > Michel Bauwens > > 2nd September 2011 > > > > Here is a first entry into the debate rocking the Couchsurfing community, > via Shareable: > > > > Excerpted from Malcolm Harris: > > > > “Let’s imagine the standard start-up route and we’ll see the kind of > double-bind CouchSurfing is in. You start with a good idea, attract > high-value employees cheap with equity offers and big investment cheques, > you hit the Initial Public Offering (IPO) and everyone gets paid, then if > you’re lucky, a bigger company will try and buy you for even more money. > CouchSurfing wants to attract the high-level programming talent and > investment capital that comes with a good idea (and is necessary to > realizing that idea), but they don’t want to risk losing control of the > organization’s mission to shareholders. What’s an ethical start-up to do? > > > > What CouchSurfing did is register as a “B corporation.” B (or Benefit) > Corporations compose a new class of US corporations, dedicated to social as > well as financial good. Five states have passed laws governing B corps, and > a bill is moving in California now. Although there are other benefits, the > biggest one seems to me described on the B Corp site: “As a B Corporation, > founders and other mission-driven shareholders can hold directors > accountable to consider the impact of operating and liquidity decisions not > only on shareholders, but on all stakeholders.” By building responsibility > and accountability mechanisms into the founding of the corporation, the B > Corp framework seems substantially different than the “corporate > responsibility” cons. > > > > As part of the B incorporation, CouchSurfing accepted $7.6 million in > venture capital funding, something they never could have done previously as > a non-profit. Combined with the site’s already 3 million-large membership > base, the site seems ready to take it to the next level. However, the > directors maintain CouchSurfing will always be free for participants. Here’s > hoping the B Corporation framework helps them, and maybe provides a model > for start-ups facing the same conundrum.” > > > > Robino on the Community conflict over the new status: > > > > “Couchsurfing as I see it has almost nothing to do with this what you > call collaborative consumption Malcolm. It is about doing away with that > model of production and consumption. It is hospitality. It is allowing a > stranger to be your guest. It is l-i-f-e. It is sharing your life with > someone for maybe a day, maybe a couple of days, and sometimes even longer. > For many of these people, traveling is NOT a product, neither is > hospitality, neither is sharing. It is how we live. > > > > That’s why there is no money involved, that’s why they like non-profit, > this is why many members inside the community are currently so upset. > Because we want to do it the other way: without the profit, without the > money. And because we know it can be done. > > > > … > > > > Couchsurfing though never wanted to make the step to transform the > organization into a democratically run organization, or to make the > source-code of the website available for people to hack on it. They said > they wanted it to become a charity (for tax-purposes) but never got that up > and running either, and after years of inaction and numerous expensive > retreats, decided to go for a “sell-out”, when their member-base was finally > big enough. > > > > Around 90% of CS-members probably don’t really care about that. They just > want to have a good website to find hosts and guests, but the others (the > ones who speak up the most) do care about it. They are critical about their > data that has just been sold to a new corporation. Their data, their > profiles, their personal references, their personal information, their > friends that they once provided to a non-profit association and not to a > corporation with CEO’s and investors. > > > > Having said all this, we’ll see where this goes, and how it will affect > the networks. For one, the success of Couchsurfing really depends on people > like me who are “active hosts” inside the big touristic cities. And with > this enormous growing member-base of Couchsurfing that we’ve seen for the > past years, it has become really hard for these hosts to keep up with the > amount of requests they get. And this announcement of Couchsurfing turning > into a profit-organization (why is that legally allowed anyway?) might be a > final drop for quite a few of them.” > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Life happens at the level of events, not of words > -- 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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social flights
by Michel Bauwens 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

http://p2pfoundation.net/Social_Flights hi Sepp, thanks for looking into this, 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: Review of Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State
by Michel Bauwens 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Steele <robert.david.steele.vivas(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:47 AM Subject: Review of Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State To: Robert.David.Steele.Vivas(a)gmail.com I am sick at heart. The craft of intelligence has been so dishonored for lack of integrity we can no longer claim to be intelligent in how we pursue the objectives of national security and prosperity. I have written a very strong review of this book just out, and expect to take some hits. To the extent you share my concerns, I would be glad to have your vote for the review, we need to pick up more momentum in the public eye. Semper Fidelis, Robert [image: Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State]<http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-America-American-Security/dp/0316182214/re…> * Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State<http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-America-American-Security/dp/0316182214/re…> * by Dana Priest *Edition: *Hardcover *Price: $18.47* *Availability:* In Stock [image: 5.0 out of 5 stars] *6 Stars--A Nation-Changing Public Mind Opener of a Book*, September 2, 2011 -- 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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p2p and the arts
by Michel Bauwens 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

hi Kevin, see http://siliconhalton.com/tribes/techarts-peer2peer thanks for finding out a bit more, 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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