[JoPP-Public] Future of Journal of Peer Production

Sat Sep 30 02:07:16 CEST 2017

Hi all

I wrote to this list a few months ago about the fact that we had no releases planned beyond April 2018. There was no response. If we do not organise a CFP now there is no chance of releasing in the second half of 2018. It's probably too late already. But, we still need to look ahead, and decide what to do about this journal.

To help focus discussion and responsibility below this message you will find:
- a breakdown of the current editorial team [and the issues they edited or co-edited]
- all JoPP issues with their editors

I think we need to address the following questions:

1. Do we need to organise some form of archiving of the Journal of Peer Production? If yes, how and where?

2. Do we need to devise new ways to come up with new themes for issues (conferences, debates, co-productions...)?

3. If members of the editorial team who have not edited issues for several (?) years are not proposing new issues, should they be on the team? If no, do we need to get new people on the team? Who?

4. If no-one steps up to propose new themes for issues should we plan to pause, or end, the Journal of Peer Production?

cheers,
Mathieu

PS. If anyone wants to propose something, I am open to discussion. I am interested in topics such as UBI and others outlined in this piece:
http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-10-peer-production-and-work/now-the-commons/

PPS. An immediate solution could  be to issue a call for an "OPEN" issue of JoPP: any aspect of P2P. Using "varia" subs? Still needs editors...

JoPP editorial team:
Maxigas [5]
Mathieu O’Neil [0,1,10 + maintainer]
Johan Söderberg [2,9]
Maurizio Teli [3]
Sophie Toupin [8]
Nathaniel Tkacz [5] has resigned but was not removed from list b/c inertia
Sara Tocchetti
Peter Troxler [5 + sysadmin]

JoPP issues with issue eds:
ISSUE 00  MASS PEER ACTIVISM. JULY 2011 Mathieu
ISSUE 01  PRODUCTIVE NEGATION. JULY 2012 Mathieu
ISSUE 02  BIO/HARDWARE HACKING. JULY 2012 Johan, Alessandro
ISSUE 03  CRITICAL POWER OF FREE SOFTWARE. JULY 2013 Maurizio, Vincenzo
ISSUE 04  VALUE AND CURRENCY. JANUARY 2014 Nate, Nicholas M, Francesca
ISSUE 05  SHARED MACHINE SHOPS. JULY 2014 Maxigas, Peter
ISSUE 06  DISRUPTION AND THE LAW. JANUARY 2015 Angela, Steve
ISSUE 07  POLICIES FOR THE COMMONS. JULY 2015 George, Vasilis
ISSUE 08  FEMINISM AND (UN)HACKING. JANUARY 2016 Sophie, Shaowen, Lilly
ISSUE 09  ALTERNATIVE INTERNETS. SEPTEMBER 2016 Johan, Felix, Panos
ISSUE 10  PEER PRODUCTION AND WORK. MAY 2017 Mathieu, Zack
[unreleased:]
ISSUE 11 CITY. OCT-NOV 2017. Panos, Penny, Nicholas
ISSUE 12. INSTITUTIONALISATION OF SHOPS. APRIL-MAY 2018. Kat, Adrian

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