dear friends, some of you will appreciate that the P2P Foundation is a heterarchical network, i.e. a collaboration of autonomous streams of activity, and accompagnying independent institutions, that coordinate their work and aims around 3 shared strategic objectives (ethical livelihoods, sustainable production, commons-based policy transitions) and a agreement around constitutive values ('about the p2p foundation' page). So we have a research activity stream, represented by a physical p2p lab, a greek NGO to handle administration, and a 'affiliate network' In total, we have 13 paid people in the p2p foundation, 10 of whom are researchers, at least according to my count <g>; also we are of have hired an extra 6 people for 4 years, to do cosmo-local research. The P2P Lab is now also extending its reach and capacity for action research, through an 'Affiliate Network', where we were just joined by the amazing Laura Martelloni of the LAMA cooperative, with whom we collaborated in the past. P2P Lab’s affiliates are (in alphabetical order): Primavera De Filippi Lucas Lemos Laura Martelloni Vasilis Ntouros Elena Pagani Kelly Pavlaki The P2P Lab also announces the creation of a solidarity franchising initiative, to create a network of labs. "We will gladly collaborate with communities or individuals who want to build a P2P Lab in their city inspired by the idea of solidarity franchising." Vasilis Niaros knows more: http://www.p2plab.gr/en/members -- 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