<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Armin Medosch</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arminmedosch@gmail.com">arminmedosch@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 2:32 PM<br>Subject: Re: [commoning] query about communication commons portal?<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br>Cc: Becky Lentz <<a href="mailto:roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca">roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca</a>>, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>>, Rachel O' Dwyer <<a href="mailto:rachel.odwyer@gmail.com">rachel.odwyer@gmail.com</a>>, Kevin Flanagan <<a href="mailto:kev.flanagan@gmail.com">kev.flanagan@gmail.com</a>>, COMMONING LIste engl <<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a>>, Commoning discussion list <<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de">commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi Becky,<div><br></div><div>over the past 18 months I have written a draft book on the network commons, in particular groups creating wireess community networks. Michel has put some excerpts on the p2p-wiki, which is okay, but you find the more coherent format here, a Drupal book with all the chapters from top to bottom.</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.thenextlayer.org/NetworkCommons" target="_blank">http://www.thenextlayer.org/NetworkCommons</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am still hoping to turn this into a proper book, btw, any ideas?</div><div><br></div><div>Lateley, I have written an article that takes a more philosophical approach and is not yet part of the book structure, that's this one:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1358" target="_blank">http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1358</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Some of the topics that you are looking for are addressed but of course not in the kind of overview form that you probably would like, since it was just me doing the research with limited time and resources (such as almost no travel budget).</div><div><br></div><div>So the answer to the question if there are such repositories, the answer is yes and no. There is not one global one that covers everything, but there are several. There is of course the free network foundation <a href="https://thefnf.org/" target="_blank">https://thefnf.org/</a> but cfor more finely grained ninformation you will probably have to a) collect that information yourself or with a research group, b) dig into your language skils because a lot of information is in German, Spanish, Greek, etc. </div><div><br></div><div>all best</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Armin</div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Armin's work on wireless commons can be found here:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/index.php?search=Armin+Medosch&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net/index.php?search=Armin+Medosch&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Rachel's work on the spectrum commons: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Rachel_O%27Dwyer_on_the_Role_of_Commons_in_Contemporary_Capitalism" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net/Rachel_O%27Dwyer_on_the_Role_of_Commons_in_Contemporary_Capitalism</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Michael Gurstein should know a lot about community networks, he's in cc,<div><br></div><div>Michel</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Becky Lentz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div><div><div>Questions came up yesterday from someone at the IGF from Scandinavia asking whether there was a site for community networks that offered best practices. I asked about the various institutional models being used, i.e., coop, NGO, social enterprise (possibly B-corp) and other revenue models for costs; also curious about governance models. </div><span><div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt">----------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt">Becky Lentz, PhD</span></div><span style="font-size:10pt">
Associate Professor of Communication Studies</span><br><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:13px">Department of Art History/Communication Studies</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">McGill University</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">853 Sherbrooke Street West, Arts Building, W-265</span><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span><span style="font-size:13px">Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0G5</span></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px">P</span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px">hone <a href="tel:514.398.4995" value="+15143984995" target="_blank">514.398.4995</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px">F</span></font><span style="font-size:13px">ax <a href="tel:514.398.8557" value="+15143988557" target="_blank">514.398.8557</a></span></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:becky.lentz@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">becky.lentz@mcgill.ca</a></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs" target="_blank">http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs</a></span></div></div></span></div></div><div><br></div><span><span><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;text-align:left;color:black;BORDER-BOTTOM:medium none;BORDER-LEFT:medium none;PADDING-BOTTOM:0in;PADDING-LEFT:0in;PADDING-RIGHT:0in;BORDER-TOP:#b5c4df 1pt solid;BORDER-RIGHT:medium none;PADDING-TOP:3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com" target="_blank">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> on behalf of Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 10:39 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Becky Lentz <<a href="mailto:roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca</a>>, Armin Medosch <<a href="mailto:arminmedosch@gmail.com" target="_blank">arminmedosch@gmail.com</a>>, Rachel O' Dwyer <<a href="mailto:rachel.odwyer@gmail.com" target="_blank">rachel.odwyer@gmail.com</a>>, Kevin Flanagan <<a href="mailto:kev.flanagan@gmail.com" target="_blank">kev.flanagan@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> commoning <<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org" target="_blank">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a>>, Commoning discussion list <<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de" target="_blank">commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [commoning] query about communication commons portal?<br></div><div><br></div></span><div><div><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#b5c4df 5 solid;PADDING:0 0 0 5;MARGIN:0 0 0 5"><div dir="ltr">dear Becky,<div><br></div><div>I am adding two people , Armin and Rachel, who have been respectively working on the meshwork and spectrum commons, and may know the answer,</div><div><br></div><div>ideally, you could do a joint tag search at <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.diigo.com/user/mbauwens</a></div><div><br></div><div>combining P2P-Media, P2P-Research, P2P-Commons (or pairing the first alternatively with one of the two next ones)</div><div><br></div><div>the wiki at <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">p2pfoundation.net</a> also has combined category searching, that Kevin knows more about so </div><div><br></div><div>[[Category:Media]] paired with [[Category:Commons]] should do the trick,</div><div><br></div><div><div>Michel Bauwens, <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Media" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Media</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Becky Lentz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>[Please excuse any unavoidable cross-postings]</div><div><br></div><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>I’ve spent the last week at the 2015 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Brazil and there was a very useful session Friday on community technology/networks. The community that met at the IGF was a bit uneven in that some in the room seemed to know that community networks started as far back as the 1990s or earlier; some seemed not to know about community radio but just tech (wireless mesh networks). I mentioned this community (commoning) but no one seemed to pick up on it. </div><div><br></div><div>So, I’m wondering if this community knows of a portal/platform that aggregates communication commons work, i.e. Radio commons, spectrum commons, telecom commons, internet commons? I teach media governance at McGill and organize my course around the notion of the commons applied to the field of media/comm/technology (including internet) studies. If we can, it would be helpful to build out the <a href="http://commoning.org" target="_blank">commoning.org</a> site to include portals/platforms where comm/tech/media/internet commons work is aggregated for general information purposes. I’d be happy to help with this, but just wondering what’s already out there as the various platforms (media/tech/internet, etc.) tend to build their own sites/communities.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Becky Lentz</div><div>McGill University</div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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