[p2p-research] Peer Governance of This List

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Matt,

James is the man to give you details about the nonprofit. I lost all details
along with my stolen laptop.

Philippe in cc was with Whole Systems and now with Shift, until last year,
they provided me with 2-3k euro, just to make sure I didn't totally sink
under the poverty level (<g>), without really any counterparty.

Philippe and Alain Wouters also organized and funded a first p2p gathering
back in 2006 I believe.

I still put shiftn in my sigfile as courtesy to all the assistance I
received in the past, it was not a lot, but a crucial amount for me, and
without any request for counter-services ...

Michel



On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Matt Cooperrider <
mattcooperrider at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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