[p2p-research] p2p in action: how about a peer book award?

[Tomas Rawlings]

> Anyway, what exactly is the point of this award and this contest? Is it to 
> promote p2p cooperation on making books? :-) Or to promote individual 
> authors? Or to promote people writing new books? What are we trying to 
> accomplish here?
>
> People also have various abilities that are strengths and weaknesses in 
> different situations, so even encouraging an author after-the-fact may not 
> be a success, as I wrote here: :-)
>   

All good points and ideas - I would suggest there are 3 main aims;
1. to promote good books that have interesting p2p ideas.
2. to promote the p2p method, by using the p2p method to run the 
competition.
3. to promote the p2p foundation.

So the structure of how we go about doing it is as important as doing it 
- so how can we have a 'competition' that produces a meaningful result 
in that it has peer-merit and yet is not the same popularity competition 
(or a 'who's in the know?' thing) as existing competitions.

Am open to suggestions....I see this, like with the arguments of 
restructuring money - how can we restructure a book award?

-- 
Tomas

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