[p2p-research] Peer Governance of This List

[Matt Cooperrider]

Oh yeah, some questions.  Is the information about the official nonprofit
entity and the board members publicly available?  Would it be a problem to
post more details?  Also, what is the nature of the relationship with
ShiftN?

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Matt Cooperrider <
mattcooperrider at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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