thanks Pam, much appreciated ... I must say one of the additional motivating factors was the negative feedback I have been receiving lately, so it is always pleasant to get some kudo's as well. In any case, I have to focus more for a while on making an income for the family.  I'm very interested in learning about Felipe's experience!!

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Pamela McLean <pamela.mclean@dadamac.net> wrote:
Dear Michel

Whatever you are doing in 2012 I wish you well with it all.

Now is probably a good time to express appreciation for all I have learned thanks to you -  both through the p2p foudation and also directly from you - so - Thank you Michel. 

BTW I note you may be in Brazil later. In the spirit of open-ness I share the fact that one of the members of Dadamac meetup   http://www.meetup.com/Dadamac/ - Felipe - spent a year in South America visiting local grass roots initiatives of various kinds and thinking how best to share information more widely about things that work well. When I met him he was recently back and in London trying to share what he had learned. I could put you in contact if his interests seem to overlap your own.

Pam

On 28 December 2011 12:11, Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
Dear friends,

an important announcement, in 3 days, I will provisionally retire from the p2p-f mailing list.

Material conditions make it impossible for me to continue 'curation as usual', as well as efforts in broader community building and dialogue. From January to April, I will be working intensively on a very demanding privately-funded research project, then I have a late spring lecture tour, and will likely spend 6 weeks in brazil, mid-may to the end of June.

Curation will be sharply curtailed but I will continue tagging as a normal activity, undertaken for the research project. Depending on available time, I will continue, on a much lighter regime, Facebook and Scoop.it. Twitter will continue to alert new blog and wiki items, as an automatic feature.

The blog will continue and I have devised a system with Franco, see http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Blog_Planning_Resources, but I will at most be able to spend half a day a week on it, so input from the community will be essential. I will aim for one personal editorial a week.

Feel free to suggest items for the following permanent rubrics:

(bear in mind we may not be able to publish as intensely as the plan below suggests)

Published on alternative days

  1. P2P Blog Movement of the Day‎
  2. P2P Blog Person of the Day‎‎
  1. P2P Blog Essay of the Day
  2. P2P Blog Book of the Day


Published every day:

  1. P2P Blog Video of the Day‎‎
  2. P2P Blog News of the Day
Important, I will not read the mailing list for at least 4 months starting January 1, so if you want me to see something, it's important to cc.



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