Together with James Burke and Geert Drieghe, we plan to carry out a podcast-based interview program of the key P2P luminaries. These people should also feature with entries in our ‘Who’s Who in P2P’.

So I’ve started compiling a list, in two categories. A P2P Theory list, which doesn’t mean these people are not active, but their listed for their writings and research; and a P2P Practitioners list, which should have those who have most contributed in creating participatory technologies. This list is almost empty and I need your help. I would also appreciate any support for creating biographical entries.

So, do please send in your nominations:

”’The P2P Hall of Fame”’

”’P2P Pioneers: Yochai Benkler (peer production), James Boyle (Intellectual Property), David Bollier (Commons)”’

”’P2P THEORY”’

”’P2P Social Theory”’: Pekka Himanen (work culture, Howard Rheingold (Smart Mobs), Andreas Wittel (network sociality); Clay Shirky (network behaviour); Kris Roose (tertiary culture), Jan Soderbergh (post-Marxist network analysis); Philippe Zafirian (work sociology); Kenneth Gergen (relational self); Timothy Wilken (synergetics)

”’P2P Media Theory”’: Dan Gillmor (participatory journalism, Mark Pesce (Hyperpeople)

”’P2P Educational Theory”’: George Siemens (connectionism); Jean-Francois Noubel and Pierre Levy (collective intelligence)

”’P2P Business Theory”’: Yochai Benkler (peer production), Thomas Malone (coordination theory), Steve Webber (open source production); Eric von Hippel (diffuse and user-generated innovation; Pat Kane (Play Ethic);

”’P2P Economic Theory”’: Maurizio Lazzarato, Yann-Moulier Boutang (cognitive capitalism); MacKenzie Wark (hacker/vectoral class analyis; Philippe van Parijs (basic income; Herman Daly (throughput economics; Bernard Lietaer (monetary reform), Margritt Kennedy (monetary reform), Wim Nusselder (quarternary economics)

”’P2P Legal Theory”’: Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons), Yochai Benkler, James Boyle (IP developments), Nicholas Bentley (intellectual contributions), Ben Moglen (FSF counsel), Peter Suber (Open Access)

”’P2P Political Theory”’: Michael Hardt and Toni Negri (multitudes), Miguel Benasayag (networked counter-power), John Holloway (revolution without power); John Lebkowsky (extreme democracy), Tom Attlee (deliberative democracy; Stephan Merken (GPL Society); Raoul Victor (free software and Marxism); Kevin Carson (libertarian mutualism)

”’P2P Governance Theory”’: Peter Barnes (trusts), David Bollier (commons; Bob Jessop (global governance, Susan Crawford (internet governance; Andrew Lih (collaborative governance)

”’P2P Technology Theory”’: Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen (free software, Eric Raymond and Bruno Perens (open sources); David Reed (viral communicators and mesh networks)

”’P2P Spiritual Theory”’: John Heron (cooperative inquiry), Jorge Ferrer (participatory spirituality), David Skrbina and Henryk Skolimowsky (participatory mind); Susan Greenwood (magical consciousness); Remi Sussan (magickal practices); Loren Goldner (the cosmobiological tradition); Steve Talbott (participatory epistemology)