[p2p-research] mode of production shootout

Tue Feb 12 10:39:10 CET 2008

There are a few different issues here:

- every society has multiple modes but nevertheless,
a dominant logic

- even in using a particular mode, there can be hybridity involved
(co-production of free software by both corporations and communities
come to mind)

for peer production, you need voluntary contribution, participatory
process, universal availability

marcin will be using, presumable, peer production for the open design,
but is otherwise using an innovative market practice (i.e. selling the
machines)

2 modes of production are co-working here ...

of course perhaps I have it wrong, and Marcin is using cooperative
production, but coupled with open design only as the license

it is worth describing the process in detail

- who works, and under what conditions (if they are paid
conditionally, it's not peer production)

- how's the process of producing

-who gets the final product and under what conditions

my provisional idea: marcin applies cooperative production, in a
market, with some twists such as open licenses and crowdfunding

Michel

On 2/11/08, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I asked this question, because it's my experience that in real-world
> practice, different applications are "mixing" some elements of these "modes"
> together. The conditions of the world itself often do not allow the actual
> application of just one conceptually pure mode of production, distribution,
> etc.
>
> In the case of the
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Neocommercialization example I am
> helping Marcin work on applying right now, Marcin is commercializing copy
> lefted designs, by first asking people to co-fund his creation and
> development of the product through many different cycles that will lead up
> to the product being available for sale at the cost of labor and materials
> only.
>
> This is not (yet) a "User Owner" or "PropertyFarLeft" model, because
> investors and users do not become full legal "owners" of anything. Instead,
> they co-fund to help a team of people evolve a technology to the point of
> being ready for commercial production, yet also released under a copyleft
> license.
>
> Although, Marcin also wants to bring interested folks to his location, show
> them how to use the equipment, in exchange for those people turning out a
> few products as part of their learning process. Those people will then be
> able to go and replicate his business.
>
> Marcin will also be able to sell his finished product to contractors,
> builders, and others, who just want to buy a finished product (such as a
> compressed earth block making machine, etc)
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that this model that Marcin has
> come up with, (with some small contribution from myself), has some elements
> of the different modes that you talk about in
> http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Mode_Of_Production_Shootout
>
> I actually don't think that
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Neocommercialization needs a new
> entry in your table. Instead, I think that
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Neocommercialization as I am
> describing it, is already defined by different elements in your table.
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2008 2:54 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sam, Mich[a]el, and other researching peers,
> >
> >
> > Samuel Rose wrote:
> > > How do you see something like
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Neocommercialization
> > > fitting into these categories (if at all)?
> >
> > Hey Sam.
> >
> > I found Marcin's SourceOpen.org stuff maybe back in 2003 [
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/20031231194735/http://www.sourceopen.org
> ]
> > when I was trying to get the "Permaculture Propagation Project" and
> > the more general "Communityism" ideas going.
> >
> > I have alot of respect for his "Open Source Ecology", "Open Farm Tech"
> > and now "Neocommercialization" initiatives, and of course for your
> > help with them.
> >
> > I've been thinking about this shootout idea for quite a while now, but
> > suddenly got the urge to work on it "in the open" before thinking it
> > through fully because that tends to only cause me too much
> > procrastination...
> >
> > I definitely want to include more Modes, but have some questions/trouble:
> >
> > 1. I am not always sure what to name them.
> > 2. The table is already kinda cramped.  Maybe we could break it into
> > two or more tables?
> > 3. I'm not sure User:Mattcoop even considers "Open Enterprise" a Mode,
> > so would you please replace it for now with Neocommercialization (or
> > whatever title you prefer).
> >
> >
> > Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > > I would appreciate if you would introduce it to our blog readers, in a
> > > language that is accessible to laypeople not yet immersed in those
> debates,
> >
> > Sorry to be daft, but I'm not really sure what you mean.
> >
> > Maybe you could give it a go and I'll try to fill-in with whatever
> > seems missing (insert questions in your explanation if that will
> > help).
> >
> >
> >
> >
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