[p2p-research] (almost) Gone to Croatan

[Samuel Rose]

A quick reply to one part:

Joseph, I will follow your lead, too. Maybe you can talk about details, as I
have fallen behind on keeping track of your progress. Do you need software,
help, what do you need to get collaboration around resource pooling going
online? I have some workable code done in Drupal that could be used if
needed...

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Sam, Paul, Josef,
>
> thanks for  thinking this through and for your proposals ...
>
> 1) I'm definitely interested in money/resource pooling, but would rather
> follow a lead in this. If Josef takes the lead, we can support him in the
> ways he requires ...
>
> 2) merging of movements ... Again, I'm interested and have put forward some
> proposals in that sense. But you have to take into account both ego and
> branding, and 'visions'. Ego: people are invested in their projects; Brand:
> online brands, even if they at presently fail to generate much return, have
> value as well. What I'm saying is that I would be really reluctant to give
> up the 'brand' of p2p foundation. Visions: p2pfoundation and cooperation
> commons are related, but also different, their purpose is not the same.
>
> So, how would you create a higher entity, especially if you do not have any
> financial means to begin with. What would the purpose be of such a higher
> entity. Research (coop comm), political change (p2p found) ?
>
> I'm interested in creating a explicitely political movement, dedicated to
> bringing about a p2p society. Such an entity could then have a research wing
> (coop comm and p2p found wiki), a political wing, a funding entity, etc...
>
> If you simply want to intermesh research, I think the solution is
> technical, i.e. the ability to easily cross-reference ...
>
> One more thing, as an individual, I'm most interested in continuing to act
> as a librarian, and as a political theorist; any proposal which allows me to
> do this in a broader entity, with more means, I'm game.
>
> Josef: do you remember our prior discussion about merging UD and p2p ...
> what about it?
>
> Michel
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/attachments/20080923/96715b50/attachment.html