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From: Armin Medosch <arminmedosch@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [commoning] query about communication commons portal?
To: Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net>
Cc: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca>, michael gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com>, Rachel O' Dwyer <rachel.odwyer@gmail.com>, Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan@gmail.com>, COMMONING LIste engl <commoning@lists.commons-institut.org>, Commoning discussion list <commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de>


Hi Becky,

over the past 18 months I have written a draft book on the network commons, in particular groups creating wireess community networks. Michel has put some excerpts on the p2p-wiki, which is okay, but you find the more coherent format here, a Drupal book with all the chapters from top to bottom.
 
http://www.thenextlayer.org/NetworkCommons


I am still hoping to turn this into a proper book, btw, any ideas?

Lateley, I have written an article that takes a more philosophical approach and is not yet part of the book structure, that's this one:

http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1358


Some of the topics that you are looking for are addressed but of course not in the kind of overview form that you probably would like, since it was just me doing the research with limited time and resources (such as almost no travel budget).

So the answer to the question if there are such repositories, the answer is yes and no. There is not one global one that covers everything, but there are several. There is of course the free network foundation https://thefnf.org/ but cfor more finely grained ninformation you will probably have to a) collect that information yourself or with a research group, b) dig into your language skils because  a lot of information is in German, Spanish, Greek, etc. 

all best
Armin
 







On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
Michael Gurstein should know a lot about community networks, he's in cc,

Michel

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca> wrote:
Questions came up yesterday from someone at the IGF from Scandinavia asking whether there was a site for community networks that offered best practices. I asked about the various institutional models being used, i.e., coop, NGO, social enterprise (possibly B-corp) and other revenue models for costs; also curious about governance models. 

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Becky Lentz, PhD
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Department of Art History/Communication Studies
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street West, Arts Building, W-265
Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0G5

From: <michelsub2004@gmail.com> on behalf of Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net>
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 10:39 AM
To: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca>, Armin Medosch <arminmedosch@gmail.com>, Rachel O' Dwyer <rachel.odwyer@gmail.com>, Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan@gmail.com>
Cc: commoning <commoning@lists.commons-institut.org>, Commoning discussion list <commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de>
Subject: Re: [commoning] query about communication commons portal?

dear Becky,

I am adding two people , Armin and Rachel, who have been respectively working on the meshwork and spectrum commons, and may know the answer,

ideally, you could do a joint tag search at http://www.diigo.com/user/mbauwens

combining P2P-Media, P2P-Research, P2P-Commons (or pairing the first alternatively with one of the two next ones)

the wiki at p2pfoundation.net also has combined category searching, that Kevin knows more about so 

[[Category:Media]] paired with [[Category:Commons]] should do the trick,





On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca> wrote:

[Please excuse any unavoidable cross-postings]

Hi everyone,

I’ve spent the last week at the 2015 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Brazil and there was a very useful session Friday on community technology/networks. The community that met at the IGF was a bit uneven in that some in the room seemed to know that community networks started as far back as the 1990s or earlier; some seemed not to know about community radio but just tech (wireless mesh networks). I mentioned this community (commoning) but no one seemed to pick up on it. 

So, I’m wondering if this community knows of a portal/platform that aggregates communication commons work, i.e. Radio commons, spectrum commons, telecom commons, internet commons? I teach media governance at McGill and organize my course around the notion of the commons applied to the field of media/comm/technology (including internet) studies. If we can, it would be helpful to build out the commoning.org site to include portals/platforms where comm/tech/media/internet commons work is aggregated for general information purposes. I’d be happy to help with this, but just wondering what’s already out there as the various platforms (media/tech/internet, etc.) tend to build their own sites/communities.

Thank you,
Becky Lentz
McGill University


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