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Fwd: [jox] First papers are up
by Michel Bauwens 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au> Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:56 PM Subject: [jox] First papers are up To: journal(a)oekonux.org [Converted from multipart/alternative] [1 text/plain] Hi all It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of our first ever "Debate" series by Johan, Nate and myself: a tasty discussion around ANT, Hegel, critical sociology, peer production governance, you name it. Comments are enabled for account holders, so have at it. http://cspp.oekonux.org/debate/ant-power Please note: the journal will only be formally launched when we publish our first "Research" and "Report" papers in a few weeks so discretion is still advised. @Michel: I know you are always interested in content for the P2P blog, maybe these papers could be republished in the blog when we launch formally _in a few weeks_ as a kind of advertisement for the journal? Just a thought, tell me what you think. cheers, Mathieu **** [2 text/html] ______________________________ http://www.oekonux.org/journal -- 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: Call for Participation
by Daniel Dietrich 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Dear all, the following is a Call for Participation for the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2011. • where: Kalkscheune Berlin, Germany • when: 30th June & 1st July, 2011 • call for participation: http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/ • submission: please see submission details below • registration: http://okcon2011.eventbrite.com/ • hashtag: #okcon2011 We are looking fwd for your participation! Would be great to meet you at OKCon 2011 in Berlin. Please get in touch with us at okcon(a)okfn.org if you want to participate, have any questions or suggestions. Best regards Daniel (PS: Sorry for cross-posting) -- Daniel Dietrich The Open Knowledge Foundation Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age www.okfn.org - www.opendefinition.org Announcement The 6th Annual Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) will take place on 30th June – 1st July 2011 in Berlin. OKCon is a wide-ranging conference that brings together individuals and organizations from across the open knowledge spectrum for two days of presentations, workshops and exchange of ideas. Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology. Opening up access to content and data can radically increase access and reuse, bridge gaps, improve transparency and thus foster innovation and increase societal welfare. In Berlin, we will be surrounded by a variety of interesting communities. These include open access and open bibliography communities to the OpenStreetMap, hacker and artist groups to the various free culture and commons research communities. We look forward to jointly discussing with all of them the latest developments and aspects of open knowledge in their work. This is a time of great change. In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth among open knowledge projects and communities at all levels and in many countries. Moreover, in the last year, many governments across the world have begun opening up their data. And it doesn’t stop there. In academia, open access to both publications and data has been gathering momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials have been heard in education. Furthermore this gathering flood of open data plus content is the creator and driver of massive technological change. How can we make this data available, how can we connect it together, how can we use it to collaborate and share our work? We will explore these issues, and more, at OKCon 2011 in Berlin. Topic areas We welcome proposals on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing content or data that is open in accordance with http://opendefinition.org. Topics include but are not limited to: Open Science and Open Data in Academic Research • Open license models for scientific data, adaption of licenses for special domain requirements • Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models • Open models for scientific innovation, for funding and for publication (‘open-access’) • Tools for analysing and visualizing open data Open Law, Society and Democracy • Open licensing, legal tools and the Public Domain • Open government data and content (public sector information) • Open knowledge and international development • Opening up access to the law and lawmaking processes Open Technologies • Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open knowledge • Infrastructure, platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating open knowledge • Light-weight, adaptive interaction models • Open, decentralized social network applications • Open geospatial data Open Culture, Education and Commons Research • Open educational tools and resources, open textbooks • Public Domain digitisation initiatives • Incentives and rewards for open-knowledge contributors • P2P production and sustainability models for open content • Governance of the knowledge commons Important Dates • Submission deadline: Mai 1st, 2011 • Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2011 • OKCon: 30th June & 1st July, 2011 How To Participate OKCon 2011 will have several formats and ways in which you can participate: • presentation sessions • lightning talks • hands on workshops • open space • exhibition spaces • open design and fablab • hackspace We are especially interested, if you want to organize a an event in one of the above formats and topic areas. You are also more than welcome to propose additional formats and topics. If you would like to organise, participate or have a proposal of another format please submit your ideas and proposals here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ OKCon Formats & Submission Details Presentation Sessions To reserve a slot in one of the presentation sessions you can apply in the following manner: You can submit an extended abstract of 2-4 pages describing the topic of your presentation. OKCon also has an academic stream and will publish proceedings. If you additionally want your submission to be included in the conference proceedings please prepare an extended 5-10 page paper submission and format it according to the LNCS Style Please Note: Proceedings of OKCon will be published at http://ceur-ws.org. To make a submission for the presentation session and proceedings please visit:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=okcon2011 Lightning Talks Lightning talks are short presentations, which last 2-3 minutes with 2-3 slides. Submission of lightning talks can be done directly at the conference up to 5 minutes before the Lightning talk session starts. Make sure you get your message through and please: don’t be boring ;) Hands-on Workshops The hands on workshops is the format where you can intensively work with a relatively small group of people on your presented topic or project. This is not for lectures but for hands-on collaboration, exchange and skill sharing. If you are interested to run a workshop on OKCon 2011 please submit your proposal here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ Open Space The open space offers a place for all kind of spontaneous interventions, meetings and the like following the concept of the open space technology. The open space area will be close to the exhibition space area and is open for you all the time. The open space can be used all times by anybody without submission. However, if you would like top run an event at the open space you might submit your idea here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ to help us planning. Exhibition Space The exhibition space is an open area where people, projects and organisations can present their ideas and projects to the public. Projects can have a permanent desc for a point of reference of their project. If you want to be present in the exhibition space at OKCon 2011 please submit your proposal here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ Open Design and FabLab work area The open design and Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is an area dedicated to open processes in creating, sharing, reusing and producing of all kind of art, designs and other products. If you are interested in contributing to the open design and fablab work area at OKCon 2011 please submit your proposal here: http://okcon.org/2011/submit/ Hackspace / Hackathon The hackspace is a dedicated space for you hackers. This is the right place to get your hand dirty and organise your hackathon. A hackathon is a collaborative decentraliced event of short timespan like one or two days with the aim to having a lot of fun with code & data. If you are interested to run a hackathon at OKCon 2011 please submit your proposal here:http://okcon.org/2011/submit/

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How Small, Mostly Conservative Towns Have Found the Trick to Defeating Corporations
by Michel Bauwens 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi Sam if you have some extra time, I would be nice if you could mention these important developments in our blog, see http://www.alternet.org/story/149725/vision:_how_small,_mostly_conservative… -- 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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Fwd: [workercoop] Fwd: mondragon exploits workers, polish strike
by Joe Rinehart 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

A few interesting notes from the U.S. worker owned cooperative discussion on the Mondragon article posted here. Perhaps what is most worth remembering is that cooperatives exist in a structure (global neoliberalism) that can pressure them to act against their cooperative values in order to preserve their basic function (the provision of jobs) but it is nice to see that Mondragon has taken international critic seriously. Joe Rinehart ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Huet <easytospell(a)sbcglobal.net> Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:35 AM Subject: Re: [workercoop] Fwd: [P2P-F] mondragon exploits workers, polish strike To: "Workercoop(a)Yahoogroups.Com" <workercoop(a)yahoogroups.com> Hi, Jim (and others)-- Regarding the request for context, the details are a bit stale but Dollars & Sense still has posted in their archives an article I wrote for their November/December 1997 issue entitled "Can Coops Go Global?" (their title/question rather than mine incidentally): http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/1997/1197huet.html. I think my perspective then as well as now can be summarized as concerned/questioning but also sympathetic, given the situation in which the Mondragon cooperatives suddenly found themselves in (after rapid dismantlement of trade barriers, in direct competition with capitalist multinationals magnitudes larger than Mondragon). My biggest concern/question back then was about MCC undertaking overseas developments with merely a stated intention to eventually convert them cooperatives, an intention not backed with any planning or research. I'm happy to say that Mondragon in recent years has undertaken research to devise a substantive plan for converting their international enterprises. Just last month, here in the Bay Area, the National Center for Employee Ownership, WAGES, and the Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives received visitors from Mondragon University researching international conversion question/options (we also hosted Mondragon researchers two years ago). (In the U.S., Mondragon folks tend to focus research on ESOPs rather than worker cooperatives due to questions of scale and how to transfer ownership over time; MCC has understandable concerns about just handing over factories upon which they've spent millions and upon which their established cooperatives/jobs depend). Though the work/research might not be progressing as quickly as some of us might wish, I wanted to note that the Mondragon folks are working on addressing/overcoming the cooperative compromises involved in their international network. Solidarity, Tim Huet Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives ----- Original Message ----- *From:* jdj(a)TruthOverComfort.com *To:* workercoop(a)yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, February 08, 2011 6:49 PM *Subject:* Re: [workercoop] Fwd: [P2P-F] mondragon exploits workers, polish strike Can anyone provide any more context, follow-up, or other info on the Mondragon article that Joe is citing? All I can find is numerous re-postings of a single article from July 2008, originating at http://zsp.net.pl/fagormastercook_workcamp ...this site also has no follow-up or additional info that I can find.... It would be great to have some additional perspectives, do some rumor control, etc., before jumping to conclusions... Thanks, Jim Johnson Quoting tylea <tyleasimone(a)gmail.com>: > Hi Joe! > > Thanks for sending out this article about Mondragon. As a community of > people committed to worker ownership, I think we need to have more honest > discussions about the "underbelly" of this movement. This will help us > identify the issues and thus be more prepared to address and/or avoid them. > Keeping this type of dialogue under wraps doesn't help the movement. > > Another report of "coops" with serious labor concerns: > http://www.laborrights.org/end-violence-against-trade-unions/what-is-a-labo…. > And unfortunately, using the cooperative name and model to hide exploitation > is not isolated. > > Perhaps this is a topic that could be explored at one of the upcoming > conferences/convenings. > > Best, > Tylea > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Joe Rinehart <ashevillejoe(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Haven't seen this posted to this list yet. It's sad/depressing/a > > cautionary tale/worth considering in light of Mondragons partnership with > > the USW and the high regard which we all hold their model of organizing. > > > > > > Joe Rinehart > > Firestorm Cafe and Books > > 48 Commerce Street > > Asheville, N.C. > > Cafe: 828.255.8115 <+18282558115> <+18282558115> > > Cell: 828.333.4162 <+18283334162> <+18283334162> > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> > > Date: Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:05 PM > > Subject: [P2P-F] mondragon exploits workers, polish strike > > To: p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> > > Cc: Nicholas Roberts <niccolo.roberts(a)gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2011/01/mondragon-cooperative-built-on.ht… > > > > Nicholas, Kevin, or others, a commentary for publication in the p2p blog > > would be 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > > http://www.p2pfoundation.net > > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > > > > > > > > > __._,_.___ Reply to sender<[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20%5Bworkercoop%5D%20Fwd%3A%20%5BP2P-F%5D%20mondragon%20exploits%20workers%2C%20polish%20strike>| Reply to group<[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20%5Bworkercoop%5D%20Fwd%3A%20%5BP2P-F%5D%20mondragon%20exploits%20workers%2C%20polish%20strike>| Reply via web post<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workercoop/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwOWZpaHNlBF9TAzk3…>| Start a New Topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workercoop/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlaXNlc2NnBF9TAzk3…> Messages in this topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workercoop/message/1600;_ylc=X3oDMTM0bTZoNjFn…>( 7) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workercoop;_ylc=X3oDMTJlY2g3bGk1BF9TAzk3MzU5N…> [image: Yahoo! 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commoning row
by Michel Bauwens 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

On the request of Silke, I'm not sending this to the commoning list, but as a not to be forwarded reply to Christian Siefkes, to this list. as you may now, communication between me and martin pedersen and massimo de angelis have not been peaceful lately, and things have not gotten better, by mistakenly copying Massimo on a private assessment that I send to our Greek friends, whom I asked to cooperate with Massimo, but at the same time warning them of what could happen, so that they would be on their guard you are free to judge me for this mistake, AND for my assessment, but it was, and is, what I think, based on my experience, and I can't change that, we all experience things as we experience them, through our own personal biases and filters and reactivity, so, here is my response to Christian Siefkes, who was shocked by my assessment, understandably so, this is just, 'for the record', and I expect Silke, of the commoning list, to mediate in this conflict, but I expect that healing the antagonism is going to require staying out of each other's way for a while, Michel Dear Christian SIlke asked me not to answer, but since you ask me, I guess I have to share already, but provisionally, just to yout; however, it is the one I would have send to the commoning list Yes, I did sent this private letter, and the googlemail demon made me click on massimo's name, talk of a freudian slip; of course, I am not at all proud of this; now I wish I would make a different assessment, but this is exactly how I think of it, based on my experience but, this was a private assessment, to one person, so that they would not get embroiled in the same process as I here, in other words, to avoid what is happening here; this is my duty to my friends: I invite them to this dialogue, but they must know that if they are attacked, not too take it personally; "it's just a matter of style of a particular group of people and you have to know what to expect" but please note, - that what I was doing was actually opening a communication line with greek activists, so the context I was aiming for was to help both massimo to continue his announced query, while wanting to avoid the communication issues that plagued this list; so the aim was exactly that they could communicate, without getting enervated as they would be aware of this style beforehand, and think of it not as a problem, but as something to be aware of, so as to avoid it; - it is one letter to one person, not a smear campaign to destroy a person or seeking harm; there is nothing systematic to it, one individual warning; in fact, throughout this time, I have been doing the opposite, i.e. promoting the work of massimo and martin, see next paragraph - throughout this exchange, and for the last weeks and months, I have continued, despite the animosity between us, to blog, wikify, facebook and twitter the views of both Martin and Massimo, making them reach audiences they may not have reached on their own, since they are likely to reach a different one; this is not the attitude of an enemy, nor an indication of a smear campaign; but rather of someone who takes their arguments seriously, and seeks to make them known to even more people; this can be easily verified in the p2p foundation resources or by checking search engines - I do not object to their views, even as I not share them, only to the caricuturing of views they do not agree with, such as apparently, mine; and again, I'm not the only one that has complained to be at the receiving end of such style of communication So, don't ask me to be sorry to share with my friends my assessment of my experience; and to give them a warning so that they can avoid experiencing the same; that this should be shared accidentally is an error of my part; I'll let you judge about the sharing of private mail yourself; but given the circumstances, I do not hold this at all against Massimo, I can fully understand how it must feel to get something like that: I would be similarly shocked however, I am also shocked of hearing I would bulldoze local communities to impose them fiberoptic cables, am opposed to the politics of indigenous people and what not; I sent my assessment of my true (in the sense of subjective) experience privately; I have to get these character assanisations over a public list. Frankly, I would prefer Martin and Massimo would say true bad things in private, rather than to have to hear such false things in a public forum. -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] an excellent white paper called: It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology
by Michel Bauwens 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

thanks Matt! On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Matt <matt(a)digiblade.com> wrote: > http://www.publicknowledge.org/it-will-be-awesome-if-they-dont-screw-it-up > > > > Hope all is well. Have not been getting any emails from the ‘list’. > > > > Matt > -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] the Pangaia project
by Mark J 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Mark, > > feel free to create a wiki page on your project, which may serve as the > basis for a mention in our blog as well, Done. See <http://p2pfoundation.net/Pangaia>. Hopefully that should spark some interest. I'll have to try to come up with a logo for Pangaia, and then I'll see about getting it added to the "friends and participating projects" list on the wiki. Thanks! marcos

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Re: [P2P-F] the future of robotics?
by Michel Bauwens 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

thanks George! On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:31 AM, George Papanikolaou <georgepapani(a)gmail.com > wrote: > http://www.roboearth.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 Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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p2p network for nearby phones, flashlinq
by Michel Bauwens 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

hi sepp, thanks for having a look: http://itknowledgehub.com/networking-infrastructure/flashlinq-a-p2p-network… -- 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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Douglas Rushkoff Announces P2P Festival
by Neal Gorenflo 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Douglas Rushkoff announces P2P festival: http://shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized I hope to see many of you there. -- Neal Gorenflo | Publisher, http://Shareable.net <http://shareable.net/> | 415.867.0429

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