Comments on: What kind of economy are we moving to? 3. A hierarchy of engagement between companies and communities https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-3-a-hierarchy-of-engagement-between-companies-and-communities/2007/10/05 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:15:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Estimating the value of the free economy at 300 billion https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-3-a-hierarchy-of-engagement-between-companies-and-communities/2007/10/05/comment-page-1#comment-282509 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:37:18 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-3-a-hierarchy-of-engagement-between-companies-and-communities/2007/10/05#comment-282509 […] See also my own “ladder of open business models“. […]

]]> By: Agroblogger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-3-a-hierarchy-of-engagement-between-companies-and-communities/2007/10/05/comment-page-1#comment-121475 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:20:47 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-3-a-hierarchy-of-engagement-between-companies-and-communities/2007/10/05#comment-121475 Open Source AT: What’s Next?…

It has been almost two years since I first began advocating for adapting an Open Source model to the development of Appropriate Technology. Naturally, my ideas did not develop in a vacuum, and a number of other groups were already working on the…

]]> By: Agroblogger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-3-a-hierarchy-of-engagement-between-companies-and-communities/2007/10/05/comment-page-1#comment-120714 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:08:41 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-kind-of-economy-are-we-moving-to-3-a-hierarchy-of-engagement-between-companies-and-communities/2007/10/05#comment-120714 It has been two years since I wrote the post referenced in this article. Since that time, Open Source AT has made strides beyond my imagination. One thing we clearly lack, for better or for worse, is a common framework. The fact that appropedia, instructables.com, and howtopedia all exist (to name a few) exist side by side is a wonderful thing, but it begs the question: how can we use similar, standard formats? I think a software application that acts as the “glue” for these communities might go a long way in bridging this gap, as I no longer believe a “sourceforge” type community will emerge from this phenomenon. But, how about a desktop application that organizes critical content for us, and then automatically updates different web-based respositories on the web? The software can take the work out of organizing documentation, CAD files, GIS objects, photographs, etc, and it will also retrieve other such changes made by the community in real time via the web.

Sure, my idealized software is pure fantasy right now, but the concept is fairly simple and should be standards based. If the OSAT community could galvanize around this project, I think a community-minded group could get some of the GNU/Linux types on board to actually build the thing. Then maybe howtopedia or appropedia would become more like a torrent tracker a la Pirate Bay. This is definitely something worth looking into.

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