[P2P-F] Fwd: [members] Testbed to develop P2P collaboration platform (P2Pvalue.cc)

Sat Jul 12 06:17:12 CEST 2014

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From: Wouter Tebbens <wouter at freeknowledge.eu>
Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:33 PM
Subject: [members] Testbed to develop P2P collaboration platform
(P2Pvalue.cc)
To: Discussions about the FTA <fta-discussion at freeknowledge.eu>
Cc: members at lists.p2pvalue.eu

Dear Free Knowledge Free Technology community,

good friends of mine are developing an online platform that will help
p2p communities help manage tasks, track reputation and real time
collaborative authoring. It's architecture is a federated network based
on the Apache Wave protocol, [1] (donated by Google some years ago).
It's free software and based on open protocols. Privacy by design.

Before they had developed the Kune.cc platform, but it has become too
complex for the purpose so they've restarted development, trying to keep
things as simple as possible. The prototype will be advancing this
summer and they're interested to have feedback from interested
communities. Also, they'll choose up to four communities that they'll
provide with support and development to put our (if we want) desires
into the platform, during the coming two years (they've got funding till
2016 from the EC).

In the P2Pvalue project 300 commons based peer production communities
have been researched to find out about legal, economical, social and
technical aspects as well as their perceived value.

Despite this being a prototype still, I think it might be a great
opportunity to implement some of our ideas we discussed here to
self-organise our community and in particular ideas we discussed in the
context of the Free Technology Guild. We can benefit from this project
and I think we can provide very useful inputs as well.

BTW, they use Redmine to keep track of the development and work with 8
day development sprint cycles, see [2].

[1] https://incubator.apache.org/wave/
[2] http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/p2pvalue/redmine/projects/p2p-value

Below follows the invitation they wrote themselves.

best,
Wouter

In the P2Pvalue project (*) we want to build a free/open source software
web-tool that will facilitate the work of "commons-based peer
production" communities... communities like yours. We will build it
following a participatory design approach, i.e. we will select a few
communities and we will build a web-tool that tries to fulfill their
needs and facilitate their everyday work. The web-tool will grow and
evolve depending on what the communities request, although we can
already say that it follows a task-oriented approach (group task
management), will be usable on mobile/tablet/desktop, and will enable
collaborative writing. Other possible features may be scheduling,
agreement follow-ups, activity organization, subgroups. You can see a
very basic version at http://prototype.p2pvalue.eu

Would your community be interested? This would imply that you would have
the opportunity to shape the web-tool to fit your needs concerning
collaborative work. The only request we make is that you provide
feedback on how you find the tool, and possible improvements that you
would make in order for it to fit your group better. We can have a
meeting with you to resolve any doubts you may have before you make a
commitment.

(*) P2Pvalue is a European project funded by the European Commission and
involves several European research groups, with the following aims: (1)
Enhancing community sustainability by adopting the governance, legal,
economic, and technical infrastructures that favour value creation and
resilience; (2) Supporting the contributors with systems of reward that
allow value to flow back to the creators; (3) Integrating the
functionalities of online social networking services and collaborative
software in a privacy-aware platform based on a decentralised
architecture. More info in http://p2pvalue.eu

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*Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no
record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..*

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