Hey Svetlina,
> Thanks for sharing this great initiative. Glad you are interested! > Are you going to participate on the CCC conference in Hamburg between > 27-30Dec this year? > I'd be happy to speak with you. > I'm sorry, I won't be in CCC this year. I'm now in Madrid and from February I'll be in Boston. > You could attend to this self-oranized session: > https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Session:Bringing_free-as-in-freedom_to_social_networks:_what,_why,_and_how > and also organize your own session. > > I want to ask you something - is it possible to have an internship in your > organization via this program: > http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/index.php > with ideas like this: > https://decentralizedmodel.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-decentralization-roadmap/ My organization is a nonprofit public university, and I'm afraid that program is just for enterprises. Cheers! -------------------------------------------- > On Sun, 12/13/15, Samer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: [GNU/consensus] Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, December 13, 2015, 9:29 PM > > Dear > all, > > I think that the > following call might be of interest to some members of the > list. Please, feel free to disseminate it > (thanks!): > > > > Call > for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons > We > are witnessing today a steady growth in the impact of > user-generated content and peer-production on the so-called > sharing or collaborative economy. These emergent practices > are an indicator of radical changes in the mode of > production in an age of ‘prosumerism’, characterized by > two main trends. On the one hand, corporations such as > Google, Uber or Facebook are capturing the value created by > the actors contributing to the collaborative economy, in a > way that has been described by some scholars as an > exploitation of free labour. On the other hand, projects > such as Wikipedia or GNU/Linux are emblematic of a new model > of production that relies on the contribution of many > individuals collaborating to a collective project that is > not owned by any given entity but rather by the community as > a whole (Commons-Based > Peer Production or CBPP). These individuals organise > themselves without relying on traditional hierarchical and > mercantile organisational structures, to produce a set > of commons resources > which are made freely available to the public for use and > reuse. In the last few years, CBPP has expanded beyond the > field of software and encyclopedias to also cover the realms > of information (OpenStreetMap, Wikihow), hardware > (FabLabs, Open Source Ecology), accommodation (Couchsurfing, > BeWelcome) and currency (Bitcoin, Altcoins). > The > concept of decentralisation is a key > requisite for the protection of thesecommons — from their > governance system, including the allocation of power and > functions in the organisation of labour; to the > characteristics of the socio-technical means of > collaboration, in terms of both the underlying technical > infrastructure and the ownership structure of such > infrastructure. Despite the original design of the Internet > as a decentralized network, with > the advent of the Web 2.0, centralized > (and often proprietary) platforms — typically driven by > corporate interests — have progressively taken over the > web. > These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to > increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden > revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria, > or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of > activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now > become clear that it is not enough to develop > free/libre/open source (FLOSS)alternatives, > if we do not as well endeavor to re-decentralize the > Internet. > Newdecentralized software tools > may ultimately be useful to support the operation and the > long-term sustainability of CBPP communities. > In > view of this, we organised the second FLOSS4P2P > workshop (@Fablab > London, supported by P2Pvalue), > gathering a wide spectrum of people working ondecentralized FLOSS projects > that could help or support the activities of peer production > communities. > Given the success > of the workshop, > we would like to prepare a book in collaboration with > the Institute > of Network Cultures (on > the model of the former MoneyLab > Reader) > to explore the topic of decentralisation in thecommons sector. > We > welcome proposals from academics, activists, researchers and > practitioners interested in exploring the topic from a wide > set of perspectives, ranging from computer science, > engineering, sociology, philosophy, organisational theory, > cultural studies, digital studies, etc. Contributions can > cover a variety of topics, including tools for grassroots > communities, commons-based peer production, > both online and offline wikis, maker culture, activism, > hacktivism, free culture, citizen science and hospitality > exchange. Contributions can take a variety of formats, e.g. > a story, a sci-fi tale, a comicstrip, a manifesto, a > critical essay, an interview, a study, a poem, a > conversation, a debate, a combination of the > former… we > would like you to experiment and surprise us! > We > invite you to submit > an initial abstract (max. > 750w; count each image as 200w, if any) explaining your idea > by January > 30, 2016. > Examples of possible topics are: > Dynamics > of (de)centralization in > CBPP communitiesDecentralized software > applications for online/offline > communitiesDecentralized solutions to > tackle specific communities concernsGuidelines > for developers and/or researchersComparison > of centralized/decentralized processes in > CBPP (e.g. decision-making, infrastructure ownership, value > generation, value distribution)Practical > experiences around centralized/decentralized structures (in > the form of stories, research, interview, > etc.) > The > more compelling ideas will be selected to be included in the > book. > Please upload > your contribution using the following Easychair > link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floss4p2p > If > you have further questions about the expected content, > format, etc. do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward > to hearing about your ideas! > > Primavera De FilippiSamer > HassanDavid > Rozas > > -- > Samer | @sh3v3k | http://samer.hassan.name > "We are the ones we have been waiting > for" (June > Jordan) > -- Samer | @sh3v3k <http://twitter.com/sh3v3k> | http://samer.hassan.name "We are the ones we have been waiting for" (June Jordan)
