Introduction During the Summer of 2013, Celya Gruson-Daniel, Founder of Hack Your PhD (HYPhD) went on a tour of Eastern Canada and the United States seeking open science advocates from Montreal to Boston to San Francisco to Seattle. She has kindly provided us with excerpts from her diary, complete with links to various interviews and… Continue reading
Events: Bien Communs Paris Oct 14th
Bien Communs by Peer 2 Peer Foundation
If the Goal is Scale, Promote Theft
if scaling impact is the goal—versus the security or perpetuity of our organizations and its members—making our playbooks open source makes perfect sense Excerpted from Eric Stowe: “Organizations can’t ignite systems change alone. They will always be hindered by their own programmatic myopia, constrained by their internal innovation cycles, isolated by their own geographic limitations,… Continue reading
Daniel Estrada on Bruce Sterling’s “The Caryatids” As a Model for the Attention Economy
Daniel Estrada is a big fan of the Attention Economy, which he describes as one part Augmented Reality, one part Internet of Things, one part Use-Theory of Value, and one part Cognitive Surplus. I am utterly convinced that an attention-economic system will ultimately replace both money and centralized governance as the dominant method for large-scale… Continue reading
Events: Delen is het nieuwe hebben Amsterdam Oct 8th (Amsterdam as leading p2p economy in the world?)
Delen is het nieuwe hebben by Peer 2 Peer Foundation
Open source hardware – Arduino expands into robotics
Arduino has announced that it is shipping a new product, an open source robotic platform, for prices starting from 189€. “Designed in cooperation with Complubot, 4-time world champions in the Robocup Junior robotics soccer, the Arduino Robot promises endless hours of experimentation and play. It is a self-contained platform that allows you to build interactive… Continue reading
Open Science Tour Diary (2): Celya Gruson-Daniel
Introduction During the Summer of 2013, Celya Gruson-Daniel, Founder of Hack Your PhD (HYPhD) went on a tour of Eastern Canada and the United States seeking open science advocates from Montreal to Boston to San Francisco to Seattle. She has kindly provided us with excerpts from her diary, complete with links to various interviews and sources. P2P… Continue reading
Call for Papers – Special issue of the Journal of Peer Production
Shared Machine Shops: Beyond Local Prototyping and Manufacturing Deadline extended by two weeks – 15 October 2013 Editors: Maxigas (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Peter Troxler (International Fab Lab Association, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) Information In the last years we have witnessed an incredible proliferation of shared machine shops in a confusing number of… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Bottom-Up Broadband Project
Bottom-Up Broadband Project Project The project is trying to particularize the general ideas of peer production and p2p infrastructures to data networks Related research projects: [in this section there are links for cross-referencing] Mobile Node? A mobile streaming solution for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure and mesh networks Open Sensor Network? Of the Shared Internet Access model: (the authors… Continue reading
A Day at Campo de Cebada, a working P2P community
Situated in the heart of Madrid’s La Latina district, El Campo de Cebada is a community-managed urban space. It is also a great working example of a for-benefit P2P association. Everybody is welcome to contribute and benefit from El Campo de Cebada, where neighbours invest their time and effort building and maintaining both the physical… Continue reading