[p2p-research] Peer Governance of This List

[Matt Cooperrider]

Fun!  I feel like I just cracked open an undiscovered book of histories :)

I added some of this at http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Foundation:About and
linked the full text from there.  If anyone has suggestions, I am happy to
work them in, if you're not feeling like editing directly.

I see an opportunity both to practice transparency and other principles of
open goverance, and to keep a history of the foundation.

Thanks for indulging me on this Michel.

Best,
Matt

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> Some background, as requ3sted, in reverse chronological order
>
> This list was created by Ned Rossiter after Andreas Wittel's Peer
> Production workshop meeting in Nottingham in November 2007 .. About 2 months
> ago, he quit as listmaster, and the settings he choose went to Kevin Carson
> and Ryan Lanaham for review. I have no details about what they changed.
>
> Ning was set up by Joseph Davies Coates, but is administratively maintained
> by me.
>
> Tne blog was set up by James Burke, who is admin and gives out pw/id's
> usually on my request. I produce 90% of the content, 3-4 items per day. He
> pays for the server space.
>
> The wiki was set up by Brice Leblevennec and about 18 months ago, admin was
> transferred to James Burke. Since short, it seems a web of trust is
> technically operating, i.e. existing members give access to new ones,
> before, it was james and I. I produce about 85%, perhaps more, of the
> content, from 5 to 25 items per day, depending on my time.
>
> I can easily spent 8 hours a day on this, which was what I did before I
> started this job, now I'm down to 4 ... which requires 2 extra hours outside
> of the office and 2 times 4 hours on both weekend days.
>
> But to be clear, my work is content oriented and I always forward technical
> issues to James, list issues to kevin and ryan, technical ning issues to
> joseph ..
>
> There is no formal governance, but I would argue, neither a tyranny of
> structurelessness. In fact, inside our resources, the case with Marc was the
> first conflict. My conflict with Stefan on Oekonux being a matter external
> to the P2P-F.
>
> The P2P-F has a legal structure in the netherlands, with a board and all,
> but no real existence so far.
>
> I'd be happy to answer more questions.
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