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Fw: Fw: Info
by Natalie Golovin 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

Mark: You and your compatriots on P2P view the world from revisionism. Go ahead and keep looking through your microscope-provided by your "teachers." Or take the time and read some very old documented evidence available at a library near you= but you may need to stay there awhile on microfiche. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Janssen Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:39 PM To: P2P Foundation mailing list Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fw: Info On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie(a)cox.net> wrote: > The European Tribes treated the Natives no worse than they treated each > other. Whoa. You should really stop talking. You have NO idea what you're talking about. How about forced acculturation, not allowing them to speak their own language (which hold the record of their own history), confined them under threat of violent force into reservations, among other things. But, really, that's probably not even the worst of it -- the worst of it is that for reasons they couldn't ever understand is why you were doing all of these cruel things when they were willing to share it it all with you. Why, when they handed out their hand to be friends, you chopped it off. Remember, they're the ones who gave us Thanksgiving which is still "celebrated" in this nation today. Read the reports made of making first contact with the Native peoples here. You really should read up before propagating the attitudes of conquest. Sorry.... marcos _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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Re: [P2P-F] Feral Honey & Bee
by Michel Bauwens 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

thanks Bryan! On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Bryan Hugill <bryan.hugill(a)gmail.com>wrote: > http://feralhoney.com/ > > Bartering honey for whatever they need from people in their area...pretty > neat idea that takes cold hard cash out of the immediate equation and > transforms the exchange into more of a social venture. Sounds like damn fine > honey too, which obviously helps :) > -- 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: p2pwikisprint proposal for FoO Re: Making Worlds 2nd Forum on the Commons
by Michel Bauwens 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: mark jagdev <markjagdev(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:19 PM Subject: Re: FoO Re: Making Worlds 2nd Forum on the Commons Dear FoO team, *Regarding* the March 29th-30th Making Worlds 2nd forum on the Commons posted here<http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2013/03/making-worlds-2nd-forum-on-the-commons/> . *Intention*: Explore how to connect kindred mapping and learning projects and build solidarity between all. For this reason I include #p2pwikisprint, p2pfoundation below and I have included Michel Bauwens in the cc. *Addressing:* 1. All of us re: the skype call we (the Future of Occupy) had today and 2. Potential collaborators (Michel, Dan, Stephen, Mayo). * * 1. Skype call* * * * *outcomes as project aims:* George Por, Anthony Robinson and I had an 8pm London time call today Sunday 24th March 2013. The following outcomes emerged and became aims for this weeks project: - Social media: Use the #mw2013 #p2pWikisprint to send out our own tweets and also re-tweet via @CommoningSchool and @FoO_Collective. - Inspired team members please send useful resources to my email that can give useful insights & answers to the key questions asked in the sessions as set out in the schedule for the forum here: http://www.makingworlds.org/2nd-forum-on-the-commons/schedule/. - Useful resources can be found firstly as priority from the websites www.thefutureofoccupy.org, www.schoolofcommoning.com, and www.p2pfoundation.net helping us further this exercise. - Directly contributing to insights & answers to the questions asked in the sessions as set out in the forum schedule I will create tweets to showcase these resources before, during and after the event. - George also alerted us to Ron Suarez's message that mentioned the use of trello: https://trello.com/makingworlds. It doesn't look very active right now but I will monitor it over the course of the week and ask Ron how it will work with the event. I will keep you posted on this. - Blog post write up: by FoOs Anthony Robinson in a format to be decided, which could be: - Giving voice to participants sense of the event and its importance/implications, or - a blog post from Anthony, or - a combination of the two. - I will share the aims of the Future of Occupy team and invite the organizers and participants of Making Worlds to post about the conference on SoC and FoO websites. - If we don't yet know beforehand, Anthony will let all of us know about livestream when on the ground at the conference. Is there anything we should add, amend or take out from the above aims? Questions for potential collaborators *Dear Michel, * How can we best connect this project, serving its aims with the wikisprint and p2pfoundation? *Dear Dan and Stephen,* You mentioned via email that you are happy to connect later this week with me regarding this project. Which of the first two aims derived from the outcomes of the skype call inspire you most to engage with this FoO project? Or did you have other ideas you may want to bring to it? *Dear Mayo Fuster Morell,* Anthony Robinson will be on the ground at the event, will you be there? We would love to collaborate with you again following on from the first Making World's event! Anthony's email: am3in1(a)yahoo.com. *Anthony*: Mayo's email is: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu Warm wishes and in solidarity, Mark On 20 March 2013 15:04, mark jagdev <markjagdev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > That is a great idea Anthony, I think it would be important at the level > of solidarity we share with making worlds and our partnering with then > earlier last year to demonstrate we are active especially for this exciting > event and all it could trigger in NYC and other places. > > The option for Skype on Sunday is open for me, let's wait to see what > others in this email thread think. > > Warm wishes to you my friend, > Mark > On Mar 20, 2013 2:08 PM, "Anthony Robinson" <am3in1(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> ** >> Dear Mark & FoO, >> >> Thanks for putting this out to us, Mark. I think you have raised a good >> question, "*How could we help individually and as a team*?". I've been >> pondering that individually, and I'm not sure yet how to answer it, but I >> know that I need to support this glowing Occupy-the-Commons ember, and I >> plan to attend the event both Friday and Saturday. Anybody else going? >> >> How about skyping this weekend for anyone interested in brainstorming the >> possibility of some FoO presence at the event? >> >> The info for the event is at, http://www.makingworlds.org/. (The >> schedule is on the page, http://www.makingworlds.org/forum-schedule/.) >> And this cool poster came with one of there emails that went out. >> >> >> All the best, >> Anthony >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* mark jagdev <markjagdev(a)gmail.com> >> *To:* Mary Beth Steisslinger <marybeth.steisslinger(a)gmail.com> ; Stephen >> Collis <scollis(a)sfu.ca> ; George Pór <george(a)thefutureofoccupy.org> ; Anne >> Betz <anna(a)thefutureofoccupy.org> ; Anthony Robinson <am3in1(a)yahoo.com>; Ellen >> LaConte <elaconte(a)gmail.com> ; Ed Lytwak <elytwak(a)gmail.com> ; Giorgio >> Bertini <gfbertini(a)conversaciones-locales.org> ; Ami D'Amour<amidamour2011(a)gmail.com>; Mayo >> Fuster <mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu> >> *Sent:* Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:05 PM >> *Subject:* FoO Re: Making Worlds 2nd Forum on the Commons >> >> Dear FoO team, >> >> Although FoO has become a lot quieter nowadays there is no doubt scope >> for arranging FoO skype calls and organising collaborative actions via >> email. Sticking with email for now I wanted to mention the next Making >> World's forum at the end of the month. Susan Draper one of the organizers >> just posted on our FB page here<https://www.facebook.com/thefutureofoccupy/posts/437848176295319?comment_id…> >> : >> >> Besides inviting individuals, groups, organizations to be part of the >> conversation, we would like to also extend an invite to help us organize >> the event! The next meeting will be on Saturday March 16, 4pm, at the >> Wyoming Building, 5 E. 3rd Street (at Bowery), Manhattan, NY. We really >> need help promoting the event in the social networks, organizing childcare, >> and sending press releases. If you have ideas or would like to be part of >> this, email us makingworldsows(a)gmail.com thanks!!!!! >> >> How could we help individually and as a team? >> >> I already began promoting it by posting on our website here<http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2013/03/making-worlds-2nd-forum-on-the-commons/>and sharing it with a few FB pages and twitter. >> >> In solidarity, >> Mark >> >> ps if you no longer wish to receive these emails just let me know in >> reply and I will take you out of future FoO correspondance. >> >> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: The Quantity Theory of Money is the Flat Earth Theory of Economics.
by Michel Bauwens 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. <dk(a)telekommunisten.net> Date: Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:31 PM Subject: The Quantity Theory of Money is the Flat Earth Theory of Economics. To: "Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. Subscriber" <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> (Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) __ There's old joke that you can prove that the earth is flat with a simple experiment you can do anywhere: Jump! Since scientists claim that Earth is rotating at a very high rate of speed, by simply jumping up as high as you can, you can prove it's not true! If the Earth were indeed spinning at such a fast speed, wouldn't you land hundreds of feet away instead of in the exact same spot you jumped from? Obviously the Earth is flat! QE god-damn D! Quantity Theory believers also often start with a similarly personal scale from which to understand a macroeconomic question. They have a fixed amount of money. Money, to them, is like a pile of stuff. If you imagine that everything else there is to buy in the world is a similar pile of stuff, then, obviously, if you take the total amount of money in the pile of money and divide it up by total amount of stuff in the pile of stuff you have the value of money. If you increase the amount of money, by, for instance (in the flat earth vernacular) "printing" it, each "piece" of money in the pile goes down in value, because the pile of stuff still has the same amount of stuff. "More money chases fewer goods" as they say. Joan Robinson frequently recounts that the great Michal Kalecki once exclaimed to her "I have found out what economics is; it is the science of confusing stocks with flows!" The trouble with the flat earth economists, is that they confuse the dynamic flows of production and consumption that make up an economy with static piles of stuff. Robinson further reasoned that "it is this confusion that has kept the Quantity Theory of Money alive until today." Just to start with, money is not something that is "printed," the physical number of paper bills or minted coins is simply an artefact of the retail demand for such bills to conduct cash transactions. Money is either spent into existence by the government, or lent into existence by the banks. The amount of money created by government spending is a matter of government policy, the amount of money created by banks is a matter of the level of qualified demand for borrowing there is in the economy. In neither case is there any pile of paper, coins, or anything else that limits how much they can spend or lend. A flat earth economist reasons that if more money is created ("printed") the value of money necessarily goes down. This would only be the case if the total number of things to buy where a fixed stock. Not only that, it also assumes that any new money would be necessarily spent on buying things, and these things are locally produced. In reality, of course, the number of things to buy is not fixed, in most economies, particularly in down-cycles, unemployment exists, and so does underutilized productive capacity. New money can be created in such a way so as to put more people to work and more capital to work to produce more things, as such, the flow of money and the flow of goods both increase. And of course, not all new money is spent on locally produced goods, thus newly created money is also sometimes simply saved, or used to repay debt, or is sent abroad and results in greater imports and foreign savings. When you add it all up, it becomes very clear that the amount of money that is "printed" (aka spent) by the government tells you very little about the value of prices on it's own, this can only be understood within the context of sectoral balances, taxation levels, unemployment, utilization of productive capacity and local and foreign propensity to save the currency. To put this in terms of macroeconomic identities, the quantity theory of money can be expressed as MV = PQ. M is the number of units of money in our pile of money, and V is the number of transactions that occur in a given period, this must, by definition, be equal to The Price Level (P) multiplied by the real GDP (Q), our pile of stuff. As Bill Mitchell argues, following Kalecki and Robinson, to render this a theory of inflation one has to assume that V and Q are fixed, in other words that propensity to save, invest and import never change and that the economy is always operating at full capacity. Since that is empirically demonstrable to be not the case, the assertion that an increase in M results in an increase in P is demonstrably not the case. This theory is as dead as they come. So what is the real reason that zombie economic theories like the Quantity Theory continue to stalk the earth when they have been unequivocally refuted ages ago? Remember that all money is created in one of two ways, it is spent into existence by the government or lent into existence by the banks. The Quantity Theory and the related monster mash of undead theories that go along with it are popular among proponents of social austerity because they falsely imply that "printing" money necessarily leads to inflation. This means that government should be artificially limited to spending only as much as it taxes. When tax revenues fall as a result of economic downturns, government should cut spending, just as the communities it serves need government spending the most. This is really a win-win for financial elites with lots of money! On one hand, the immiseration of workers by way of austerity allow capitalists to push for lower wages and benefits, as the workers are in a weaker position to resist, on the other hand, any without infusion of money from government spending, additional money needs be borrowed instead, thus increasing interest income for all those financiers smart enough to be very rich! The Quantity Theory of Money is nothing more than a fable invented to convince the whole of society that they should have less, so that the to very rich can have even more! In any case, as is is my tradition, I will bring a small pile of money to spend on a signification volume of beer on Tuesday night, so join me at Toronto Stammtisch at The Embassy in Kensington Market, the rest of the Telekommunisten crew and friends and will be at Cafe Buchhandlung in Berlin. 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ripple as a decentralized insurance system
by Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Hello everyone, I have been talking with a friend recently, I created a small presentation of a system that insures currencies. This is not finished at all, but it shows how it will be possible in the future to have many currencies without that exposing you to default or fraud risk. This is the decentralized equivalent of the guaranteed society that Chris Cook proposes. Again, this is a first draft. -- Sincerely yours, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis

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Fwd: RS Writers: PLEASE READ - Fundraising Drive Needs You Now
by Michel Bauwens 29 May '13

29 May '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Reality Sandwich <info(a)evolver.net> Date: Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:15 AM Subject: RS Writers: PLEASE READ - Fundraising Drive Needs You Now To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com ** Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c45148e3315288a1da897bdee&id=9dcbef0fd0…>. [image: Reality Sandwich]<http://evolver.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c45148e3315288a1da897bdee&…> I'm going to ask you a personal favor (and forgive me for doing so through a mass mailing...). Could you please send an email to your friends and allies about the Reality Sandwich 2.0 Kickstarter<http://evolver.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c45148e3315288a1da897bdee…> ? *It's important for people to appreciate how critical this campaign is to RS's future*. The money is for a new site so that we can expand our editorial features to stay current and increase traffic. Also, critically, it enables us to introduce a membership program that will create a necessary new revenue stream. Moreover, the RS tech system is obsolete and teetering (as would be any web publishing system as old as ours...). *RS as currently structured is not sustainable, and we're turning to the community to ensure we have a future*. We have *19 days left* to reach our target of $40,000, and we're about 25% of the way there. To date, much of the RS community has assumed that we're this fairly large, well resourced operation that doesn't require their direct financial support. But -- as they say in Oz -- don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain! We need to shift the community culture, and convince a core group to make a donation now, and become paying members later, so we can continue to make all our articles free to everyone. Of the 140,000 people who come to the site each month, I'm sure we can get a good percentage (5%!) to make this commitment. But to do so, we've got to communicate this message repeatedly and clearly so it'll be heard, since it's so different than the image people have of us. *At the same time that RS 2.0 will provide us with a sustainable business model, it also means a much improved RS experience*. Reality Sandwich's next phase includes a timely blog with 10+ posts a day for news, reviews, events and opinion about all of transformational culture. With much more video, music and podcasts. And deeper community engagement. In addition, the membership program will foster in-depth discussions about hot topics with inspiring visionaries like Dennis McKenna, Gary Lachman, Thomas B. Roberts, Ryan Hurd, and many more (maybe you!). It will be a lively cultural incubator, where participants discuss new ideas across the full horizon of consciousness culture. Please donate to the Kickstarter campaign today, and spread the word<http://evolver.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c45148e3315288a1da897bdee&…> . We appreciate everything you do to help make this campaign a success. If you have any suggestions you'd like to share, we're all ears! Cheers, Ken and the RS Team P.S. If you've already donated to RS 2.0, and have trumpeted about this campaign to the world, thank you so much! -- Ken Jordan Publisher/Editorial Director, Reality Sandwich & Evolver.net follow on Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/EvolverNet/> | friend on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/thenightingalescode> | forward to a friend<http://us2.forward-to-friend1.com/forward?u=c45148e3315288a1da897bdee&id=9d…> *Copyright © 2013 Evolver, All rights reserved.* You are a contributor to Reality Sandwich *Our mailing address is:* Evolver 580 Broadway #1203 New York, NY 10012 Add us to your address book<http://evolver.us2.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=c45148e3315288a1da897bdee&id=74…> unsubscribe from this list<http://evolver.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=c45148e3315288a1da897bdee&…>| update subscription preferences<http://evolver.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=c45148e3315288a1da897bdee&id=7…> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Rolling Stone Article : HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke By MATT TAIBBI
by Michel Bauwens 27 May '13

27 May '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:41 AM Subject: Rolling Stone Article : HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke By MATT TAIBBI To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com, agile-vortex(a)googlegroups.com http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlem… HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke *By* MATT TAIBBI <http://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/> excerpted : Though this was not stated explicitly, the government's rationale in not pursuing criminal prosecutions against the bank was apparently rooted in concerns that putting executives from a "systemically important institution" in jail for drug laundering would threaten the stability of the financial system. The *New York Times* put it this way: Federal and state authorities have chosen not to indict<http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/hsbc-said-to-near-1-9-billion-settle…> HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank and, in the process, endanger the financial system. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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re "Researching p2p practices in a fragmented state."
by Poor Richard 22 May '13

22 May '13

I can see applications of this concept for "Researching p2p practices in a fragmented state." Michel Bauwens posted this link on facebook: https://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/ towards-leaderless-social-mass-movements/rethinking-social-movements#TOC -Here-s-one-solution <https://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/towards-leaderles…>Excerpt from Multitude site (Creative Commons Attribution): "First proposed by Tiberius Brastaviceanu<http://www.google.com/profiles/tiberius.brastaviceanu> > . > ------------------------------ > "Build a *smart widget* to play the role of *banner* for the social > movement. Nowadays, every individual or small organization that > associates with a movement has a presence on the Internet. In the past, > members and organizations part of a movement wore a banner to identify > themselves and to communicate to others that they belong to that particular > movement. In our case this banner becomes a *smart banner*, a widget, > which marks individuals and organizations in the virtual space, which is > "wore"* *on people's blogs, webpages, Facebook accounts, etc. > > *"An open data acquisition, analysis, and display system * > All *widgets are connected to a central system*. Every time they are > viewed online they send data to the central system. Every widget/banner has > it's own serial number, is unique. The central system is in fact *an open > system*. It gathers data from all banners/widgets in circulation, > processes it, and publicly displays information about the entire social > movement in real time. The way the information is analyzed and displayed is > open, and can be modified/improved by an open community. > > *"Spreading mechanism* > Anyone can grab a banner/widget from any other widget out there, just by > clicking on a link which brings you to a place where the code is provided. > It is not necessary to associate information about the owner of a widget, > but the location of the widget (the site or blog where it is installed) > will be known. Thus, the spread of banner/widgets becomes viral (spreads > from member to member), and adepts of the movement become ambassadors of > the movement with full rights. BUT, if someone in the community finds out > that some owner of a widget is acting against the movement his *widget/banner > can be terminated* from the central system through an open > and democratic decision making process. Reputation parameters can also be > added. > > [end of excerpt] > This is genius. The idea of smart, live banner-widgets (I would suggest adding live badges also) is totally awesome! I love this method for automatically creating a central database of resources (people, web sites, etc.). This is exactly the kind of thing we need to help overcome the fragmentation of effort and visibility across a broad spectrum of social movements.

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Fwd: Last-minute updates and reminders for ECC
by Michel Bauwens 19 May '13

19 May '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Bollier <david(a)bollier.org> Date: Sun, May 19, 2013 at 4:14 PM Subject: Last-minute updates and reminders for ECC To: David Bollier <david(a)bollier.org> Dear ECC Participant, We have a final set of announcements and reminders to share with you before the conference and side events begin. First off all: Please remember *our conference hashtag: #4thecommons * Here is the list of issues we want to bring to your attention: OPENING SESSIONS STREAM DESCRIPTIONS SIDE EVENTS STREAMING ECC COMMUNICATION PLATTFORM ECC WIKI + YOUR DATA + PARTICIPANTS LIST * **OPENING OF ECC AND PUBLIC CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 4.30 pm * Please be on time. The event will surely be filled to capacity. Here is a link to spread the word and for any non-conference participant to register: http://www.boell.de/calendar/VA-viewevt-de.aspx?evtid=12704&crtpage=1 *STREAM DESCRIPTIONS * The descriptions of each Stream in the conference program are abbreviated versions. The longer, more detailed descriptions can now be found on our Conference Wiki at: http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conferenc… *SIDE EVENTS * There is a whole range of self-organized side events that we wish to draw to your attention. A few listing can be found here: http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conferenc… Several of these side events were organized since our last letter to ECC participants. These include: Side Event: Commons for Public Health (not to be confused as restricted to health issues) "Public Health, Seeds, Open Knowledge and Clean Tech: A Common(s) Pathway? - Discussing a Commons-based Knowledge Transfer and Innovation System" Tuesday 21 May: 11:00 - 17:00 Venue: Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Luisenstr 57, 10117 Berlin A program is now available here: http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_for_Public_Health_-_2013 RSVP: Lukas Fendel / Universities Allied for Essential Medicines lfendel(a)essentialmedicine.org ******************** Side Event: Education Commons Wednesday 22 May, 13:00-16:30 Commons education, education commons, Global Commons Initiative, research commons, School of Commoning, University of Notre Dame in the Heinrich Boell Foundation Building/ meeting point: lobby RSVP: Leo Burke <leoburke1948(a)mac.com> <leoburke1948(a)mac.com> ******************** Side Event: Enabling a global climate commons pathway - through an emerging loose international federation of commons Wednesday 22 May: 14.00 to 16.00 Conference Room 2, Schumannstr 8, in the Heinrich Boell Foundation building RSVP to: Brian Davey <briadavey(a)googlemail.com> <briadavey(a)googlemail.com>and Justin Kenrick <justinkenrick(a)yahoo.co.uk> <justinkenrick(a)yahoo.co.uk> ******************** Side Event: Commons in post-soviet area -- Dying or transforming towards a modern form of commons? How can experiences of transformational countries be joined into the commons movement? Wednesday, 25 May, 12.00 - 14.00 Venue: Heinrich Boell Foundation; meet in the lobby RSVP to: Kai Ehlers <info(a)kai-ehlers.de> <info(a)kai-ehlers.de> POST CONFERENCE SIDE EVENT: In the context of: "How to get there from here? conference followup and post-conference planning." Commons Abundance Network (CAN) Invitation to explore mutual empowerment through exploration and further development of THE COMMONS ABUNDANCE NETWORK Saturday, May 25th, 9am -12 Venue: Heinrich Boell Foundation, room depending on number of attendees RSVP to: Wolfgang Hoeschele: whoesch(a)truman.edu *STREAMING OF SESSIONS, ESPECIALLY KEYNOTES * On Wednesday, May 22 the entire opening event will be streamed, starting at 4.30 pm Throughout the conference, all keynotes will be streamed at scheduled times. Please spread the following links for streaming: On the hbf website (chat available): http://www.boell.de/economysocial/economy/economy-commons-10451.html On the ECC Communication Platform: http://commonsandeconomics.org/live/ The streams (in an edited version) will also be available at: https://www.youtube.com/user/boellstiftung (search for ECC2013) If you wish to embed the streaming into your websites and blogs: here is the code <embed src='http://www.boell.de/data/flash/jwplayer.swf' height='350' width='588' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' flashvars="&author=Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung&bandwidth=157829&description=Live-Stream%20von%20Veranstaltungen%20der%20Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung%20auf%20http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.boell.de%2Fstream&file=stream01&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boell.de %2Fimages%2Fdemokratie%2Fnetzpolitik.gif&lightcolor=0xa7a796&plugins=viral-2&screencolor=0xf2f2f2&streamer=rtmp:// livezone02.netdna.com/live/64870&title=Live-Stream"/> If you share those links with all those who cannot attend the conference, we'll multiply our audience. *ECC COMMUNICATION PLATFORM (CP)* Throughout next week, the platform is not open for registration for the general public. Only ECC participants can have an account at this moment and post their own contributions. However, non-participants are currently able to comment on all posts and comment using Twitter (with the hashtag #4thecommons) -- and during the conference everybody will be able to follow the video stream and other real-time tools. After the conference the ECC Communication Platform will be opened completely, so that everybody can register and post on it. If you wish to read material from CP during your trip to Berlin you can now use a downloadhelper, ready to be used from mobile devices for all PDF or ePub documents (right column of each post, as for instance here: http://commonsandeconomics.org/2013/05/19/an-urbanism-for-the-commons/) *ECC2013 WIKI * First of all, please verify YOUR data on the wiki, and send any proposed changes to Michel Bauwens at michel(a)p2pfoundation.net This is the official overview page of the conference: http://p2pfoundation.net/ECC2013 Research on the topic of Commons Economics: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons_Economics Comprehensive list of participants: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:ECC2013_Participants List of organizational affiliations: http://p2pfoundation.net/ECC2013/Organizations That's all! We are looking very much forward to seeing all of you! For the Steering Committee of ECC, Silke Helfrich and David Bollier -- David Bollierdavid(a)bollier.org Now blogging at www.Bollier.org Commons Strategies Groupwww.wealthofthecommons.orgwww.viralspiral.cc 511 Old Farm Road Amherst, MA 01002 USA413-259-2009 -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Yi-Tan Tech Community Call #389 - Makers and Making - 1:30pm Eastern, Monday =0A =0A 2013-05-20
by Michel Bauwens 19 May '13

19 May '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jerry Michalski <jerry(a)sociate.com> Date: Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:55 AM Subject: Yi-Tan Tech Community Call #389 - Makers and Making - 1:30pm Eastern, Monday =0A =0A 2013-05-20 To: Yi-Tan List <Yi-Tan(a)googlegroups.com> Greetings, Maker Faire <http://www.makerfaire.com/> is under way this weekend in San Francisco. It's definitely a signal, a harbinger of larger changes afoot. What are those changes? How should we frame the making to better understand its implications? Plausible starting points: 1) it's transforming education; 2) it's teaching everyone resilience; 3) if you can't open it, you don't own it; 4) art isn't hard!; 5) learning can be fun; 6) yours? Together, let's discuss: - What does the Maker Movement mean to you? - How is it affecting your world? The whole world? - Where is it headed? What does it portend? As always, an IRC chat <http://yi-tan.com/IRC_chat> will be available during the call at #yitan. We tweet as @yitan <http://twitter.com/yitan> (and use #yitan<http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23yitan>as our hashtag). Please follow us on Twitter. This page is on the web here <http://yi-tan.com/Makers_and_Making>. Date: Monday, 2013-05-20 Time: 10:30am Pacific, 1:30pm Eastern Dial: 1-626-677-3000, passcode 778778 See all the Yi-Tan calls in the weekly call archive<http://yi-tan.com/weekly_call_archive>or listen to the edited podcasts on the Blog <http://yi-tan.com/Blog>. You can also listen to the shorter call summaries there. Please feel free to forward this note to people you think would be interested in these calls. (To unsubscribe, just reply to me and I'll be happy to do so.) Talk to you on the call! Bestest, Jerry -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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