<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Wouter Tebbens</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wouter@freeknowledge.eu">wouter@freeknowledge.eu</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:33 PM<br>Subject: [members] Testbed to develop P2P collaboration platform (P2Pvalue.cc)<br>To: Discussions about the FTA <<a href="mailto:fta-discussion@freeknowledge.eu">fta-discussion@freeknowledge.eu</a>><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:members@lists.p2pvalue.eu">members@lists.p2pvalue.eu</a><br><br><br>Dear Free Knowledge Free Technology community,<br>
<br>
good friends of mine are developing an online platform that will help<br>
p2p communities help manage tasks, track reputation and real time<br>
collaborative authoring. It's architecture is a federated network based<br>
on the Apache Wave protocol, [1] (donated by Google some years ago).<br>
It's free software and based on open protocols. Privacy by design.<br>
<br>
Before they had developed the Kune.cc platform, but it has become too<br>
complex for the purpose so they've restarted development, trying to keep<br>
things as simple as possible. The prototype will be advancing this<br>
summer and they're interested to have feedback from interested<br>
communities. Also, they'll choose up to four communities that they'll<br>
provide with support and development to put our (if we want) desires<br>
into the platform, during the coming two years (they've got funding till<br>
2016 from the EC).<br>
<br>
In the P2Pvalue project 300 commons based peer production communities<br>
have been researched to find out about legal, economical, social and<br>
technical aspects as well as their perceived value.<br>
<br>
Despite this being a prototype still, I think it might be a great<br>
opportunity to implement some of our ideas we discussed here to<br>
self-organise our community and in particular ideas we discussed in the<br>
context of the Free Technology Guild. We can benefit from this project<br>
and I think we can provide very useful inputs as well.<br>
<br>
BTW, they use Redmine to keep track of the development and work with 8<br>
day development sprint cycles, see [2].<br>
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[1] <a href="https://incubator.apache.org/wave/" target="_blank">https://incubator.apache.org/wave/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/p2pvalue/redmine/projects/p2p-value" target="_blank">http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/p2pvalue/redmine/projects/p2p-value</a><br>
<br>
Below follows the invitation they wrote themselves.<br>
<br>
best,<br>
Wouter<br>
<br>
In the P2Pvalue project (*) we want to build a free/open source software<br>
web-tool that will facilitate the work of "commons-based peer<br>
production" communities... communities like yours. We will build it<br>
following a participatory design approach, i.e. we will select a few<br>
communities and we will build a web-tool that tries to fulfill their<br>
needs and facilitate their everyday work. The web-tool will grow and<br>
evolve depending on what the communities request, although we can<br>
already say that it follows a task-oriented approach (group task<br>
management), will be usable on mobile/tablet/desktop, and will enable<br>
collaborative writing. Other possible features may be scheduling,<br>
agreement follow-ups, activity organization, subgroups. You can see a<br>
very basic version at <a href="http://prototype.p2pvalue.eu" target="_blank">http://prototype.p2pvalue.eu</a><br>
<br>
Would your community be interested? This would imply that you would have<br>
the opportunity to shape the web-tool to fit your needs concerning<br>
collaborative work. The only request we make is that you provide<br>
feedback on how you find the tool, and possible improvements that you<br>
would make in order for it to fit your group better. We can have a<br>
meeting with you to resolve any doubts you may have before you make a<br>
commitment.<br>
<br>
<br>
(*) P2Pvalue is a European project funded by the European Commission and<br>
involves several European research groups, with the following aims: (1)<br>
Enhancing community sustainability by adopting the governance, legal,<br>
economic, and technical infrastructures that favour value creation and<br>
resilience; (2) Supporting the contributors with systems of reward that<br>
allow value to flow back to the creators; (3) Integrating the<br>
functionalities of online social networking services and collaborative<br>
software in a privacy-aware platform based on a decentralised<br>
architecture. More info in <a href="http://p2pvalue.eu" target="_blank">http://p2pvalue.eu</a><br>
<br>
<br>
</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..</b></div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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