Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a new and increasingly significant model of social innovation based on collaborative production by citizens through the Internet. This project will foster the CBPP phenomenon by providing a techno-social software platform specifically designed to facilitate the creation of resilient and sustainable CBPP communities.

As part of the P2Pvalue.eu project, we commissioned this great short film from Shoestring Videos to explain Commons Based Peer Production to the wilder public. Now that P2Pvalue is over, we are glad to share it again with our blog readership.

The P2P Value Project – Promoting the Tech Commons from Shoestring Videos on Vimeo.

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When: 18-21 July 2016
Where: University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)

“Course Description: In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in issues at the intersection of political philosophy and public policy. In particular, attention has increasingly turned to the question of what kind of institutions and policies would be needed in order to create a significantly more just society. Following past summer-schools on topics such as a basic income (2013), predistribution and property-owning democracy (2014), the ethics of banking (2015), this year’s summer school will be devoted to the commons. The topic of the “commons” is an expanding issue of interest within academia, where it combines different and complementary disciplines (philosophy, history, law, political science, economy, …). It is also a very important discussion outside academia. The “commons” is a social space where people can enter and leave freely; in which they relate as equals; and in which they work cooperatively, to solve a problem, meet a need, or just enjoy creativity for its own sake. In this school we will explore the ways in which society has a strong responsibility to protect a sufficient commons and to ensure that anyone holding an asset removed from the commons pays compensation to everyone else.

Professor Karl Widerquist will in his lectures introduce us to the political philosophy of the commons by laying out and indepentarian theory of justice and applying that theory to the justification of government and property rights. It uses ideal and practical political theory to argue that both the justification of the state and the justification of private property require the payment of a basic income guarantee. This payment is necessary not only to preserve status freedom, but also to compensate those who dissent from the institutions that powerful people have endowed with authority over land and natural resources. It will be argued that society owes compensation to the rational and reasonable dissenters. This conclusion is very different from typically arguments for a natural right to private property, because such arguments usually ignore the loss of negative freedom accompanied by the loss of access to the commons in any system that creates property without compensation to non-owners.

Professor Axel Gosseries will in his practical sessions explore moral dilemmas that may arise within the forms of production and consumption which occur through various kinds of “commons” such as:
(a) protecting and preserving local natural resource commons;
(b) creating wider, transnational and global natural resource commons;
(c) protecting capacities for Commons-based peer production (CBPP) for information goods;
(d) developing rights of open access to more information goods;

Inscription: If you would like to participate, please send an e-mail to Roberto Merrill ([email protected]) by 20 May 2016. If you also wish to give a talk during the School, please send us an abstract between 300 and 500 words.”

More details can be found here.

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The last in the series of free posters about Commons-Based Peer Production produced by P2Pvalue  & designed by Laura Recio shows some of the crazy things we can do with collaborative communities. The poster can be  downloaded below (click on image to go to the downloads page on Wikimedia Commons) & used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The posters are currently available in English, with other languages to be added soon. Enjoy

Download the other posters:
A history of Commons-Based Peer Production communities
One Day Living Through Collaborative Communities

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The second in the series of free posters about Commons-Based Peer Production produced by P2Pvalue  & designed by Laura Recio tells the story of one day living through collaborative communities. The poster can be  downloaded below (click on image to go to the downloads page on Wikimedia Commons) & used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The posters are currently available in English, with other languages to be added soon. Enjoy

The first poster in the series, outlining the History of Commons-Based Peer Production communities, is available here

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P2Pvalue have produced a series of about Commons-Based Peer Production, designed by Laura Recio. The first poster which can be  downloaded below (click on image to go to the downloads page on Wikimedia Commons) & used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, explains the history of Commons-Based Peer Production communities . The posters are currently available in English, with other languages to be added soon. Enjoy

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Hello,

The  P2Pvalue project is undertaking research on commons-­based peer production (CBPP) communities around the world. The goal of this research project is to develop a software platform to support sustainable models of value generation in commons-based peer production.

As part of this work, the P2P Foundation is interested in understanding more about how value is created in these communities.

What are CBPP communities? Its simple, CBPP communities work with the commons. For example commons of knowledge such as Wikipedia or the P2P Foundation, Free and Open Source software, Open Data, Open Design, Open Hardware. We also want to hear about your hackerspace, co-working space, fablabs and sharing communities.

We would be very grateful if you could help by completing the questionnaire in the link below . Please share the survey on social media and others involved in your or other CBPP communities.

http://surveys.peerproduction.net/ls2/index.php?r=survey/index/sid/981217/newtest/Y/lang/en

Once the survey will be finished, the resulting raw data will be anonymized and publicly available.

Thank you very much for your help!

Kind regards,

Ignasi Capdevila
P2P Foundation

PS: Please help us with 10 min of your time to complete the survey.

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