Comments on: Essay of the Day: Producing Industrial Goods Through the Commons https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Wouter Tebbens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492274 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:19:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492274 yes, definitely!

]]> By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492272 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:59:25 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492272 In reply to Wouter Tebbens.

perhaps we could work this out as a policy proposal to circulate amongst public authorities?

]]> By: Wouter Tebbens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492271 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:43:36 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492271 I am thinking that such lab could be 1) an entry point for the (local) community to engage in free knowledge, peer production and commons projects; 2) a place where knowledgeable people from different domains (software, hardware, energy, chemistry, …) can fulfil a mentoring role to newcomers; 3) an incubator for new projects; 4) a series of physical workshops where people can tinker with different technologies and machines (like OSE); 5) a hub for local companies to build up a local industrial network; 5) an educational hub for schools and institutes in the region with self-organised workshop sessions; 6) a fun place to socialise with other hackers and people interested in building an autonomous society.

Hackspaces and FabLabs already provide some of these functions, but possibly we could find those that are most complete and successful in their set-up and organisation.

If we want something like this (I want one in my region near Barcelona!), maybe we should share the experiences and the good practices and collectively build a replicable model. That’s what I try to do in the Microfactoria Blog.

Good luck in China and Brazil, Michel!

]]> By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492267 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:15:14 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492267 Dear Wouter .. it’s a proposal, so no examples yet. I’m proposing this to the Hangwa Forum in China, and have talks about it in Brazil .. to be monitored!

]]> By: dsanchezbote https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492260 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:10:35 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492260 I think that the “Open Technology Transfer Research Lab” could be a great idea. In my opinion its objective could be to identify what technologies make sense (considering economical, ethical, geographical, and technical issues) to develop in a P2P model. In this way we could help many people to ignite their P2P adventure because I think that there is a lot of people with the intention of doing something in this arena (and they have the space and the community to start) but don´t have a clear idea about the kind of technology they could develop…
Perhaps we can work together in this direction…

]]> By: Wouter Tebbens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492248 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:04:52 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492248 You mentioned an “Open Technology Transfer research lab” to evaluate projects in order to select the adequate ones. I’d be interested in examples.

]]> By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492246 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:41:06 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492246 In reply to Wouter Tebbens.

Dear Wouter, not sure what you are referring too when you say, ‘such research labs’ ?

]]> By: Wouter Tebbens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492245 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:33:58 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492245 Hi Michel, thanks for republishing my article on the Microfactoria Blog here at P2P-F!

Such research lab seems a good idea to evaluate projects for local / regional communities. If you have blueprints of that, I’d like to reuse 🙂

thanks again,
best, Wouter

]]> By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492119 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:27:35 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492119 In reply to dsanchezbote.

automotive is good I think … the wikispeed commuter car, local motors, the eCars now conversion …; agricultural machinery from Open Source Ecology ? but why not create first, a Open Technology Transfer research lab which would evaluate the projects in terms of 1) economic feasibility; 2) ethics 3) sustainability … any technology that passes the funnel could then be supported

]]> By: dsanchezbote https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-producing-industrial-goods-through-the-commons/2012/06/12/comment-page-1#comment-492112 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:24:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24341#comment-492112 We are thinking in starting a P2P industrial project here in the Basque Country. We have found interested people (from the engineering wordl) , resources (spaces for example) and people like us that understand the commons model. But we have some difficulties in identifying in what concrete technology we are going to focus. We are thinking in the automotive industry for example, but is hard to imagine where we can found a good opportunity to create a real P2P industry. Any idea? Thanks!

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