---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wouter Tebbens <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:33 PM Subject: [members] Testbed to develop P2P collaboration platform (P2Pvalue.cc) To: Discussions about the FTA <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Dear Free Knowledge Free Technology community, good friends of mine are developing an online platform that will help p2p communities help manage tasks, track reputation and real time collaborative authoring. It's architecture is a federated network based on the Apache Wave protocol, [1] (donated by Google some years ago). It's free software and based on open protocols. Privacy by design. Before they had developed the Kune.cc platform, but it has become too complex for the purpose so they've restarted development, trying to keep things as simple as possible. The prototype will be advancing this summer and they're interested to have feedback from interested communities. Also, they'll choose up to four communities that they'll provide with support and development to put our (if we want) desires into the platform, during the coming two years (they've got funding till 2016 from the EC). In the P2Pvalue project 300 commons based peer production communities have been researched to find out about legal, economical, social and technical aspects as well as their perceived value. Despite this being a prototype still, I think it might be a great opportunity to implement some of our ideas we discussed here to self-organise our community and in particular ideas we discussed in the context of the Free Technology Guild. We can benefit from this project and I think we can provide very useful inputs as well. BTW, they use Redmine to keep track of the development and work with 8 day development sprint cycles, see [2]. [1] https://incubator.apache.org/wave/ [2] http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/p2pvalue/redmine/projects/p2p-value Below follows the invitation they wrote themselves. best, Wouter In the P2Pvalue project (*) we want to build a free/open source software web-tool that will facilitate the work of "commons-based peer production" communities... communities like yours. We will build it following a participatory design approach, i.e. we will select a few communities and we will build a web-tool that tries to fulfill their needs and facilitate their everyday work. The web-tool will grow and evolve depending on what the communities request, although we can already say that it follows a task-oriented approach (group task management), will be usable on mobile/tablet/desktop, and will enable collaborative writing. Other possible features may be scheduling, agreement follow-ups, activity organization, subgroups. You can see a very basic version at http://prototype.p2pvalue.eu Would your community be interested? This would imply that you would have the opportunity to shape the web-tool to fit your needs concerning collaborative work. The only request we make is that you provide feedback on how you find the tool, and possible improvements that you would make in order for it to fit your group better. We can have a meeting with you to resolve any doubts you may have before you make a commitment. (*) P2Pvalue is a European project funded by the European Commission and involves several European research groups, with the following aims: (1) Enhancing community sustainability by adopting the governance, legal, economic, and technical infrastructures that favour value creation and resilience; (2) Supporting the contributors with systems of reward that allow value to flow back to the creators; (3) Integrating the functionalities of online social networking services and collaborative software in a privacy-aware platform based on a decentralised architecture. More info in http://p2pvalue.eu -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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/