[P2P-F] Fwd: openp2pdesign.org: Newsletter 07. December 2011

[Michel Bauwens]

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          Newsletter N°07 December 2011

In this issue:

   1. MAKIT Symposium, Glasgow (UK) <#13418f691304108a_01>
   2. FabCamp Torino, Turin (Italy) <#13418f691304108a_02>
   3. Simbioms.org, Helsinki (Finland) <#13418f691304108a_03>
   4. Redesigning openp2pdesign.org <#13418f691304108a_04>

MAKIT Symposium, Glasgow (UK)

On 16th September 2011, Massimo Menichinelli was invited to the MAKIT
Symposium in Glasgow, an event organized by
Skirmishes<http://www.skirmishes.org/>in order to facilitate the
emergence of a FabLab in Glasgow, in the Lighthous
building <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse,_Glasgow>.The
presentation was done with remote video link, and you can see it
here<http://www.slideshare.net/openp2pdesign/open-design-communities>
.
Skirmishes Limited want to establish
MAKLAB<http://www.maklab.co.uk/?page_id=11>,
an open access digital manufacturing workshop, in Glasgow’s Lighthouse
Building and are raising money through a crowdfunding platform
here<http://www.soloco.co.uk/project-details/maklab-project.html>.
More information on the wiki <http://maklab.wikispot.org/> of the project
and on the twitter account of Skirmishes<http://twitter.com/#%21/skirmishing>.
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FabCamp Torino, Turin (Italy)

The awareness about FabLabs and Open Design is still not very common in
Italy, for this reason, openp2pdesign.org and other friends had been trying
to organize an event in order to help emerge a network of people and
initiatives linked to FabLabs and Open Design.

The event that we were planning encountered some problems (another sign of
the difficulty of proposing these issues in Itay), but in end, thanks to
Massimo Banzi of Arduino <http://arduino.cc/>, there was a similar event
called FabCamp Torino <http://www.fablabitalia.it/fabcamp#.Tt3nXDiOFLI> we
participated to. The event was held on October 29th in FabLab
Italia<http://www.fablabitalia.it/>,
the temporary FabLab (now closed) hosted in the *Future Station. The
remaking of Italy*<http://eng.italia150.it/Officine-Grandi-Riparazioni/Future-Station.-The-remaking-of-Italy>exhibition,
part of the celebrations
for the 150th anniversary of the unification of
Italy<http://eng.italia150.it/>.


During this event, we discussed FabLabs, the experience of FabLab Italia
and how it could be possible to continue such experience starting another
FabLab in Turin. You can still follow this discussion (in Italian)
here<http://www.fablabitalia.it/fablab-torino#.Tt3nSjiOFLI>.
Massimo Menichinelli's presentation (in Italian) can be found
here<http://www.slideshare.net/openp2pdesign/fabcamp-torino-29102011>;
the full morning of the event (in Italian) was recorded and you can watch
the video on YouTube here <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLLMNsafieA>.

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Simbioms.org, Helsinki (Finland)

On November12th, Massimo Menichinelli was invited to give a lecture in a
SIMBioMS workshop in Helsinki. SIMBioMS <http://simbioms.org/> (System for
Information Management in BioMedical Studies) is a project for a
multi-module solution for data management in biomedical studies. In this
lecture we discussed how to apply the Open P2P Design mehtodology to
designing collaborative services for biomedical studies. The presentation
can be accessed
here<http://www.slideshare.net/openp2pdesign/open-p2p-design-simbiomsorg-helsinki-12112011>.


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Redesigning openp2pdesign.org

A brief recap: the openp2pdesign.org project started in March 2005 with
Massimo Menichinelli's Master Degree Thesis in the Faculty of Design of the
Milan Polytechnic. Therefore, for the first year (March 2005 – April 2006)
openp2pdesign.org was just a work in progress and it did not really exist
yet, it started as a website towards the end of 2006, opening the 2007 as a
blog. The main idea, however, was to provide a space for collective
discussion and further research for Open P2P Design, with the aim of
becoming *an open source community*.

During the following years, the project has become quite successful, with
workshops, lectures or panels in many countries, including Italy, Spain,
Finland, Germany, Netherlands, South Korea, Singapore, Mexico. Other people
joined the project, but due to technical limitations and varios issues the
project has been staying small, without becoming a real open source
community.

Luckily, after many months of research, the moment of redesigning
openp2pdesign.org, both as a website and as a community dedicated to a set
of collaborative activities has finally arrived.
If you go to meta.openp2pdesign.org, you will find that the redesign
process has already started, and if you want, you can join it. You can read
a longer blog post about this process
here<http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2011/openp2pdesignorg/redesigning-openp2pdesign-org/>.
We will use Trac <http://trac.edgewall.org/> and
Subversion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_%28software%29>software
(as in many open source projects) and the Open P2P Design
methodology for designing how openp2pdesign.org project will work as a set
of collaborative activities. There is also a mailing list for discussion
about the redesign of the project here:

http://lists.meta.openp2pdesign.org/listinfo.cgi/discussion-meta.openp2pdesign.org

If you want to participate in the process, go to meta.openp2pdesign.org or
send an e-mail to meta [at] openp2pdesign.org
<meta at openp2pdesign.org>asking for a Subversion account. If you don’t
want to participate in the
process but want to see / use the new website / community, just subscribe
to the newsletter <http://meta.openp2pdesign.org/trac/wiki/Newsletter> and
we will keep you updated. In this project, *open* doesn’t mean just
something that you can download for free, but that we welcome any
participant in further improving this collaborative effort, so we will very
happy if you'll join and help us!

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