[p2p-research] Gift Nodes/Exchange Nodes

Thu Nov 29 17:24:13 CET 2007

We have not had too much that people could engage beyind a blog, and an
understandably invitation-only wiki

But, we can change that, I think. I recommend that we first follow the steps
that we are taing to attract and build community more amongst ourselves
p2presearch at listcultures.org is one step in the right direction, and
http://www.socialtext.net/p2pworld/index.cgi are good, and we should also
eventually have a public-accessible extension of these spaces. Perhaps not
right away, but we can talk collectively about how we would like to see
emerge, to put together the best insights of everyone concerned and
interested.

I was thinking that we might make a public-facing extension of our otherwise
private http://socialsyneryweb.com/resource pool, eventually, that can hook
into this "gift node" system. Users of this part of the "site" would not
have access to the private resoruce pool section. Basically, our internal
group could opt to make some of the "gifts" or in-kind donations they are
offering the private group, public, and these could then be listed on the
public "list". This is just a proposal, what do you think? This is similar
to what Andrius expressed that he might like to do with
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Gifts basically giving worknets group folks
the option to also list their "gifts" or "needs" in the greater gift node
network...

On Nov 29, 2007 2:10 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> I would welcome such a page, though so far, our own requests for
> assistance in knowledge creation have been less than successfull ...
>
> I think as usual, there needs to be a person behind it, who can stimulate
> the process, and I have had not enough time for community development
>
> my dream is to find such a person for the p2p foundation!
>
> Michel
>
> On Nov 26, 2007 6:29 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I had a great conference call with Steve Bosserman, and  Andrius
> > Kulikauskas, of Minciu Sodas yesterday. One of the items Andrius mentioned
> > was a project on Work Nets wiki where participants are listing "gifts" they
> > have to offer, or items they'd like to receive, on their site:
> >
> > http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Gifts
> >
> > One of the things we talked about is that it seems to be more successful
> > for smaller  groups who collaborate together, to create these types of
> > exchanges, or giving "boards" amongst themselves, rather than creating a
> > monolithic "service" that is meant to attract many people who are anonymous
> > to one another. The groups of people who know each other are more at ease
> > giving and sharing like this.
> >
> > We have been exploring a bartering exchange at
> > http://www.communitywiki.org/en/InternetExchange. This is a bit
> > different, in that it is meant to be a list of skills that can be bartered
> > for in some way, either for LETS, or for some "equivalent" skill.
> >
> > And, of course in P2P foundation, we're developing a resource pool.
> >
> > An idea that Andrius raised in our conference call was to think about
> > how to connect "giving" networks between groups, so that, for instance if no
> > one at http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Gifts is interested in what is
> > being offered or requested there, maybe people in groups where there is
> > overlap in participants, would be interested? It might be possible to create
> > "Gift nodes" that connect these giving pages on different communities?  This
> > is kind of like we've created at
> > http://www.communitywiki.org/en/WikiNode, but specifically centered on
> > connecting pages like http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Gifts
> >
> > My friend Lion Kimbor, who helped me create
> > http://www.communitywiki.org/en/InternetExchange, has brought up the
> > point that there are some things that we would like to offer, but cannot
> > really afford to offer for free. There are some types of work that we would
> > like to post as being available to do for the greater community, but would
> > need something in exchange for (even if that is just LETS or community
> > currency that is used solely for those exchanges.)
> >
> > So, what I would like to propose is that it we could create a "Gift"
> > page that is similar to http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Gifts for the
> > P2P foundation, and one for CommunityWiki. And, if there is interest, that
> > we might also create a local "InternetExchange" for P2P foundation and
> > perhaps Worknets, that is similar to
> > http://www.communitywiki.org/en/InternetExchange, and that we create
> > links between these ("Gift Nodes", "Exchange Nodes"). And, we think about
> > how to keep these first centered and catered to their respective
> > communities, but also open for access between communities, mostly through
> > symbolic link. I propose that these pages would be public facing, like
> > http://www.communitywiki.org/en/InternetExchange and http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Gifts
> >
> >
> > If people are interested, I will make this a public-facing,
> > openly-editable "wiki" page on http://socialsynergyweb.com/resourcepool
> >
> > Lion, and Andrius, I have copied you on this email, and please feel free
> > to join
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> > you'd like this is a mailing list that grew from http://www.ntu.ac.uk/p2pworkshop2007/programme/index.html
> >
> >
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