[p2p-research] new crowdsourcing book is out

[Christian Siefkes]

Sam,

"Samuel Rose" <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
> Community participation and peer production can work, but the community
> needs to be allowed to establish themselves as a real commons, a
> self-governing system. They need to be listened to, because they can so
> easily leave. The early "crowdsourcing" attempts from a year ago or so, are
> actually burning a lot of people on the idea of peer production in general.
> The time is actually quite ripe for someone to come along and offer ethical,
> community-driven peer production systems. But this type of system is:
> 
>    1. Probably should not be approached as a typical internet start up
>    venture seeking capital
>    2. Could have money-making businesses that are associated with it, but
>    itself should be managed as a commons

I very much agree with you. Great post!

Best regards
	Christian

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