[JoPP-Public] jopp update 2024

[Mathieu O'Neil]

Hi all

The "peerproduction.net" domain name, held by P2PF, was allowed to lapse at the end of 2023 [citing a P2PF web person: "I did send an email to a few folks regarding old domains and unfortunately it did not reach Mathieu:( As part of the foundation moving administratively to Belgium, a lot of old domain names have been released as no one claimed them"].

As a result the "peerproduction.net" domain name went into a "redemption period" and the journal website went down; thanks to Adrian Smith for alerting us about it.

Eventually we managed to track down the relevant P2PF person and Peter Troxler (who already hosts the journal website on his server) purchased the domain name - thanks Peter! Thanks also to Stephen Collins for his help.

In the process, two issues came to the fore:

1-we need to find supplementary archiving solutions: I will start another thread about this soon.

2-we need to update the jopp website to make it clear the journal is no longer active (this will prevent unwanted submissions which still episodically occur).

My suggestion is to insert the following text:
"[update (February 2024): the journal of peer production is no longer active; jopp#15 in 2022 was the final issue]"
In the following pages
ABOUT “Submissions”, “Mission Statement”, "People", "Advice", "Twitter"
PEER REVIEW "Process" ["Current" is obsolete and should be deleted]

@all: if you have any other suggestions please let me know before the end of this week. Thanks!

For the front/homepage text, which currently reads:
“Welcome to the Journal of Peer Production
The Journal of Peer Production seeks high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners of peer production. We understand peer production as a mode of commons-based and oriented production in which participation is voluntary and predicated on the self-selection of tasks. Notable examples are the collaborative development of Free Software projects and of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.”

We could have instead:
"The Journal of Peer Production is no longer active
Between 2011 and 2022 researchers and practitioners self-managed the Journal of Peer Production to explore and document peer production, understood as a mode of commons-based and oriented production in which participation is voluntary and predicated on the self-selection of tasks. Notable examples are the collaborative development of Free Software projects and of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. jopp#15 TRANSITION was the final issue"

@all: if you have any other suggestions please let me know before the end of this week. Thanks!

cheers
Mathieu
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