[p2p-research] the issue with forking

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Alex,

hopefully, your work will finds its way to:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Facilitation,

Michel

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am working on a standard for sharing deliberative process on shared
> business across/between websites to enable distributed decision making and
> remote shared goals with consensus building.  Smari's Shadow Parliament in
> Iceland needs to communicate with the Ministry of Ideas to move business
> back and forth, and also to move it into the 'realpolitik' Parliament.
>  Small groups need this kind fo thing even more.
>
> Alex
> I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.- Socrates
>
>
>
>   On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Phoebe <pvm.doc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Michel et al,
>>
>> Good timing. I am presenting work on the same panel with Nathaniel at
>> Jussi's event this week in Cambridge (see URLs below).
>>
>> *Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process
>> *http://www.networkpolitics.org/
>> Schedule:
>> http://www.networkpolitics.org/content/thinking-network-politics-conference-schedule
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phoebe
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22 March 2010 09:49, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> the following seems an important issue for us,
>>>
>>> Phoebe/George, could you eventually explore this and fish for a deeper
>>> text by Nathaniel?
>>>
>>> Jussi will most like have the email contact,
>>>
>>> Michel
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.networkpolitics.org/sites/default/files/netpol10v2%20abstracts.pdf
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> Nathaniel Tkacz: The Politics of Forking Paths
>>> *
>>>
>>> Open projects are defined by their forkability. So central is this
>>> capacity (to
>>>
>>> fork), software and other content projects cannot lay claim to the
>>> beloved
>>>
>>> notion of openness without it. While forking is variously celebrated or
>>>
>>> discouraged depending on a whole series of factors, all agree that the
>>> *potential*
>>>
>>> to fork is vital for what might be called the political legitimacy of
>>> open
>>>
>>> projects. That is, such projects might be full of conflicts, have
>>> domineering
>>>
>>> participants, too many or not enough rules, trolls, vandals, sock puppets
>>> and
>>>
>>> numerous other schemers and nasties, and yet in the last instance each
>>>
>>> participant must see the overall organisation of the project as
>>> acceptable and
>>>
>>> therefore legitimate. If this was not so, members are free to take the
>>> software
>>>
>>> or content from the existing project and continue in a new direction and
>>> with
>>>
>>> new governance.
>>>
>>> Rather than accept this widely held position, this presentation offers a
>>> critical
>>>
>>> reading of forking. I begin by dispelling the ideas that anyone can fork
>>> and
>>>
>>> that all – if any - projects are forkable. Using examples from the
>>> history of
>>>
>>> Wikipedia, I then argue that forking offers a window to the many
>>> asymmetries
>>>
>>> that characterise collaborative, P2P networks and the open projects
>>> created on
>>>
>>> them.
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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