[p2p-research] Open Everything MindMap - aligning OK with P2P

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 10:21:01 CEST 2009 

Hi Suresh,

here's is attempt to address your important questions, below, see the
original formulation from 2005 as well

To better understand the P2P Initiative, I am wondering if it would be
possible to outline the following:

*P2P Foundation Super-Ordinate Goal:* What is you highest and most inclusive
goal for P2P?
*

The most important goal of the P2P Foundation is to contribute to the advent
of a type of society that enables more peer to peer relationships, and which
combines free sharing of knowledge and culture, a civilisation operating in
balance with nature, within the context of social justice. We desire a
society which maximises both freedom and equality, without sacrificing one
for the other.


*
*P2P Foundation Sub-Ordinate Goals*: What intermediate goals (milestones)
are necessary to accomplish your larger objective (s).

- to research and promote peer production, peer governance and peer property
modalities in every sphere of life

- to research and promote open and free, participatory, and commons oriented
social practices

- to internetwork social forces interested in the same

- to promote the advent of more distributed infrastructures in every area of
human life


**
from http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Foundation:About

*The Foundation for P2P
Alternatives<http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives>
* would address the following issues:

   - P2P currently exists in discrete separate movements and projects but
   these different movements are often unaware of the common P2P ethos that
   binds them


   - thus, there is a need for a common initiative, which


   1. brings information together;
   2. connects people and mutually informs them
   3. strives for integrative insights coming from the many subfields;
   4. can organize events for reflection and action;
   5. can educate people about critical and creative tools for world-making


   - the Foundation would be a matrix or womb which would inspire the
   creation and linking of other nodes active in the P2P field, organized
   around topics and common interests, locality, and any form of identity and
   organization which makes sense for the people involved


   - the zero node website, i.e. the site of the P2P Foundation, would have
   a website with directories, an electronic newsletter and blog, and a
   magazine. It aims to be one of the places where people can interconnect and
   strengthen each other, and discuss topics of common interest.

Michel Bauwens <http://p2pfoundation.net/Michel_Bauwens>, November 29, 2005


**



On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Suresh Fernando <
suresh at radical-inclusion.com> wrote:

> Michel,
> I just spent some time looking through the MindMap and I want to commend
> you and the others that developed this for both generating the taxonomy as
> well as populating it with all of the links.
>
> This is a great resource for all of us that are committed to the principle
> of Openness and recognize both how this principle is transforming the way we
> stand in relation to each other and how we interact with each other; giving
> rise to transforming how we work together etc.
>
> The possibilities are endless! I think we all recognize that. The challenge
> will be to focus our efforts in such a way that we can collectively effect
> change in the world.
>
> This, in turn, will require that capitalize our process so that we can
> compensate those working in this area.
>
> To better understand the P2P Initiative, I am wondering if it would be
> possible to outline the following:
>
> *P2P Foundation Super-Ordinate Goal:* What is you highest and most
> inclusive goal for P2P?
> *
> *
> *P2P Foundation Sub-Ordinate Goals*: What intermediate goals (milestones)
> are necessary to accomplish your larger objective (s).
>
> I can't speak of the other groups, but this information will make it easier
> for OpenKollab to align its initiative with P2P and, therefore, to better
> leverage the assets of both groups as we move forward.
>
> Regards,
>
> Suresh
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> judging from the initial buzz in my email box, I think the publication of
>> our mindmap offers a special opportunity to make the work of the P2P
>> Foundation more known, and also of course all the initiatives that are
>> mentioned on the map.
>>
>> If you could make a special effort to spread the word through your mailing
>> lists, social bookmarking, and perhaps even sites like Digg, it would be
>> most appreciated,
>>
>> Many thanks for considering it,
>>
>> Here's the main link,
>> http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free., with more
>> explanations below
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>
>> <<
>>
>> The public version of the map is here:
>> http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free
>>
>> People who want to add and improve can ask access at
>> http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/28717702
>>
>> Details about its structure are here at
>> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-everything-mindmap-and-visualization/2009/09/08,
>> I'm quoting it for your convenvience below.
>>
>> Finally, there is an embed code, here:
>>
>> <iframe width="600" height="400" frameborder="0" src="
>> http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/public_map_shell/28717702?width=600&height=400&zoom=1"
>> scrolling="no" style="overflow:hidden"></ iframe>
>>
>> Thanks for your interest Jon, and I hope you can in turn spread the word,
>> and mention it in Boing Boing and Worldchanging if possible,
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> [image: newsvine:Civilisational competition, social change, and P2P]<http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.p2pfoundation.net%2Fcivilisational-competition-social-change-and-p2p%2F2009%2F09%2F08&h=Civilisational+competition%2C+social+change%2C+and+P2P>
>>
>> Open Everything Mindmap and visualization<http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-everything-mindmap-and-visualization/2009/09/08>
>> [image: photo of Michel Bauwens]Michel Bauwens
>> 8th September 2009
>>
>>  This mindmap<http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free>could certainly be more beautifully designed and presented, but I can’t
>> refrain from already sharing, as it presents such a condensation of the 3
>> years of research we’ve undertaken at the P2P Foundation.
>>
>> A special thanks to Ben Dagan of Creative Commons Austria<http://www.creativecommons.at/Members/ben/ccalpssalon/CCalps%20Salon%20Text_long>,
>> who prodded me to undertake this visualization effort, and added some extra
>> visual elements already. Ben and the CCAlps Salon invited me to speak on
>> Open Everything in Vienna on 11 September<http://creativecommons.at/salon/everything>at 19:30 in the Museumsquarter. It’s part of the annual
>> Paraflows <http://www.paraflows.at/> festival.
>>
>> Other participants will most likely improve and change it, as will some
>> other people associated with the P2P Foundation.
>>
>> Some explanation of this draft visualization:
>>
>> First the red links, that’s the most unsuccessfull part of this draft:
>> they are meant to represent the process of ‘Circulation of the Common’, the
>> means by which the Commons socially reproduces itself, i.e. by *open and
>> free input*, which is *participatorily processed* to result in a *universally
>> available commons*, which in turn represents open and free input for
>> further iterations.
>>
>> The main body of the visualization contains 6 aspects of processes
>> representing the cycle of reproduction and growth of openness in our
>> societies.
>>
>> *I. Aspects of Openness,*
>>
>> i.e. the requirement of inclusionality or open access; the demand for
>> participation, i.e. permissionless contributions; the demand for holoptism
>> or full transparency of that process, and finally, for full shareability and
>> ‘changeability’ of the common material. All these represent new social
>> expectations, and are key ingredients of commons-based peer production as
>> well.
>>
>> *II. Enablers of Openness*
>>
>> These aspects or fundamental characteristics of openness are then embedded
>> in enablers or ‘guarantors’. First of all are the Open Definitions, the
>> social charters that determine the boundary conditions of the open
>> communities and which define the minimal conditions for openness to be
>> recognized; these are further embedded in open code, open licenses, and open
>> standards; as well as the basic conditions which are open access and open
>> data.
>>
>> *III. Infrastructures of Openness*
>>
>> To make it all real, we need infrastructures in which these enabling
>> elements are embedded, i.e. we need open platforms, both virtual and
>> physical, which alllow us to produce in a open way: open collaborative
>> technical platforms, open places where we can gather, open media and
>> communication infrastructures we can use, open and free software, knowledge
>> and scientific data; and the ability to live in open and free villages and
>> urban spaces, which connect local production with global open design
>> communities.
>>
>> *IV. Open Practices*
>>
>> All the preceeding enablers, will allow us then to engage in open
>> practices, especially open design and open manufacturing, but also free
>> currencies and new forms of sharing (ownership).
>>
>> *V. Open Domains of Practice*
>>
>> These practices are obviously embedded in topical domains, such as
>> education and science, where these practices are contextualized and made
>> real, to finally result in all kinds of …
>>
>> *VI. Open Products!!*
>>
>> The actual ’social artefacts’ actually created by the processes from I to
>> V, i.e. the Apache server, the Linux operating system, etc..
>>
>> All of the above gives us a circular process, leading to new iterations of
>> open characteristics.
>>
>> Note that we then add a layer of examples of each practice (in bold), as
>> well as the sources where you can find examples in our ecology of
>> information services at the P2P Foundation.
>>
>> Go here for full access:
>> http://www.mindmeister.com/28717702/everything-open-and-free
>>
>> *VII. Open Movements*
>>
>> New social movements, specifically dedicated to increasing ‘openness’ are
>> also specifically tackling the social awareness concerningt this shift,
>> strengthening and increasing the numbers of people who see this as a new
>> mode of life and ethical ideal, and as their default social practice. Like
>> the P2P Foundation itself, they consciously work on creating open
>> distributed infrastructures in all areas of life, interconnecting
>> initiatives in global networks of experience sharing.
>>
>> *VIII. Open Consciousness*
>>
>> All the efforts from II to VII change our subjectivies and how we relate
>> to each other, re-inforcing new iterations of the Open Cycle.
>>
>>
>> --
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>> http://www.dpu.ac.th/dpuic/info/Research.html - Think thank:
>> http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
>>
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