<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I´d like to suggest to come to agreement on using a
term for FLOK the concept which goes beyond (or better said encompasses) FLOK the project. This is unfortunate
but may become inevitable as the P2P Foundation in this list announced it would refrain to further use this "brand". However, I believe the concept
expressed through this acronym and the meaning it conveys is compelling, clear, and it has also
become widely known in the last months. <br>
<br>One of the most important achievements of FLOK the project in my eyes is that it contributed to quite an evolution of the P2P concept.
It denotes a new level of thinking: from looking at P2P projects,
communities, commons, to also include a "macro-level" of societal organization, being the state its current most-known form (which of course had been addressed before, as you can see in [1], but maybe from less pragmatic points of view?). In no way I mean to lower the pioneering and outstanding work of the P2P Foundation so far, rather the opposite.<br>
</div><div><br></div>I don't think it's in the heads of the FLOK project, nor would I see it as in their values and interest, to hold on to the acronym FLOK to be only used for the project. However, continuing to use the acronym might make things less clear in conversations to understand if we are talking about the project or the concept.<br>
<br>Thus, either we find a new identifier, or we come to peace
with FLOK and continue to use the acronym for weaving a
Free and Libre Open Knowledge society (I am assuming here that this
could be a common banner for P2P efforts to actually form viable
societal models. I am happy to learn about divergence on this one).<br>
<br></div><div>The main motivation for this is to hope for further conversation about FLOK the concept and possible forks and evolutions of FLOK the project, without having to fear entrenched reactions due to the situation about FLOK the project (which, in my humble opinion, can be soothed by professing a "Mea Culpa" from ALL sides).<br>
<br></div>Comments?<br><br></div>P.S. This will be posted as a separate thread on the Spanish-language list as well.<br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_State_Approaches">http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_State_Approaches</a><br>
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