Comments on: The P2P Foundation as a neo-nomad structure https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-as-a-neo-nomad-structure/2007/07/27 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:07:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-as-a-neo-nomad-structure/2007/07/27/comment-page-1#comment-102106 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:07:52 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-as-a-neo-nomad-structure/2007/07/27#comment-102106 thanks for those illuminating examples, that programmer without internet access will certainly stick in my mind

I do believe that full neonomads as a lifestyle is for a niche, after all, the original nomads had their roots, i.e. they had their house with them …

But, the global scaling of small groups is definitely a mainstream trend, and this is what drives peer production,

Michel

]]> By: Thomas Jankowski https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-as-a-neo-nomad-structure/2007/07/27/comment-page-1#comment-102087 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:42:22 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-as-a-neo-nomad-structure/2007/07/27#comment-102087 Merci pour la recommandation Michel 😉 I agree with you to an extent that it’s difficult to achieve neonomadism on a greater scale. But, and this is a major but, I don’t think the trend is to build it up to a certain scale. Let’s consider who neo-nomads are, for most part: IT experts, consultants, professional bloggers, graphic designers, teleworkers, freelancer journalists… While all of these professions are on a rise and while more and more tools exist to make working ‘anywhere/anyware’ plausible, it’s definitely a niche sector. Besides, the reason neo-nomads are called just that is their nomadic root – and what follows, a resistance towards collectivization. I meet other neo-nomads on the road and there’s only one thing I’ve decided we all have in common – a decent laptop, customized to do exactly what we need it to do; a decent understanding of things IT (one single-mom-turned-pro-blogger I met a few months ago was talking to me about PHP-tuning WordPress for two hours and only five months before her IT knowledge was limited to using Outlook and Word); and solid expertise in whatever it is we specialize in.
While on that subject, one other example comes to my mind. A while ago I was on a mission to find some of the crazier neo-nomads out there and I run across a programmer who specializes in Open Source development. His entire team of about 17 programmers is globally based, and he himself lives in Australia, with no internet access. Once every two weeks or so he gets to a nearby mountaintop, gets a quick satlink to the net, commits his coding changes to an SVN repository and downloads new code to work on. He also syncs all his e-mails to/from his team, grabs thousands of feeds to his offline RSS reader, and he goes offline. Oh, I could go on about such examples.
Back to your conclusion, I think you got it just right. It’s all about brand creation, and well, quality vs. cost of production is one ratio where we beat most enterprises any time.

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