[p2p-research] An Initial Proposal for a p2p Book Award

[Michel Bauwens]

I penned a comment in the blog, same link,

Michel

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Tomas Rawlings <tom at fluffylogic.net>wrote:

> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-proposal-for-a-p2p-book-award/2009/10/12
>
> So how can we merge the often top-down literary prize method with the p2p
> personal-recommendation approach? How would a p2p book award work? I guess
> from a starting point we could have an award for a book about p2p As a
> second there is the selection and judging process - which naturally would be
> done by p2p…
>
> Aims
> Starting at the start, here is what I would suggest that we could get out
> of the award (in order of importance):
>
> 1. To promote good books.
> 2. To promote good books on p2p ideas.
> 3. To show p2p in action via the p2p book award’s process.
> 4. To promote the p2p foundation.
>
> Registration
> Fist off, those who want to take part must register. We could use an
> existing social network to make the process easier and to guard against
> people using sock-puppets to skew the process.
>
> Criteria for Inclusion
> The next aspect of the process that is decided by the registered
> participants is the criteria for the year. We have a few broad categories;
> fiction, non-fiction and p2p and ask people to propose subcategories for
> these to narrow the field a little more.
> We could, each year revise and evolve the categories from ones you might
> expect such as fiction and non-fiction, to the format; ebook, comics, PDF
> (though how do we judge difference between a long article and a book - and
> does it matter?) though it would seem best to keep a time-category in that
> the book/item in question must be published or re-issued within last 12
> months.
>
> Selection
> At first people propose books for the initial round. Then at a pre-set date
> we’d stop taking new entries and then move to the next round. This would
> consist of books being ’seconded’ by the most number of people in the group;
> hoever people who proposed a book in the first round, cannot second it. We
> would then take the top voted 5 books in each category that go forward.
>
> Judging
> Then other people who have not proposed, seconded or read the finalists get
> a copy of the book and read them then come to a consensuses of the winner…
>
> What do people think?
>
> --
> Tomas
>
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