I've always believed quite strongly that there is something very valuable and important at the heart of cooperation studies. The challenge of realising this however, has always been in it's cross and even trans-disciplinary nature - which means that it has no 'home' as such (other than in our collective minds and on this list and site).
I guess what I'm really saying is that CoCo has no centralised locus from which it is consistently coordinated in an ongoing fashion - something like a research centre or a particular academic institution, or something of the like (at least that's the traditional way this need is usually addressed). - It's the classic need for centralised activity/persistence to draw together and coordinate the distributed efforts. Funding is of course a usual route for this approach, and in its absence, individual commitment fills this gap (thanks Robert for yours!) - however there's just only so far this can go and last... I personally had visions of being much more involved in various ways at different points, and then the business i started, Collabforge, started demanding more and more of my time (not to mention my kids etc). So, all my extra capacity has been sapped. I'm not sure I have any great suggestions here (that I can reasonably back up by my own efforts) just my 2 cents. :-)... On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Robert Link <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:41:48PM -0400, Jim Benson wrote: > > At one point we were getting 1200 blog spams an hour. > > Sweet Jesu! > > > > -- ----- Mark Elliott, PhD Director, CollabForge pty ltd collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software http://Collabforge.com ~ http://Mark-Elliott.net ~ http://MetaCollab.net Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) Twitter: MarkElliott, Collabforge --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cooperationcommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
