[p2p-research] Peer Participation and Software

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks Nicholas,

if you could look up his email, I would contact the author for featuring it
as book of the week,

Michel



On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Nicholas Roberts <
nicholas at themediasociety.org> wrote:

> Peer Participation and Software
> *What Mozilla Has to Teach Government*
> David R. Booth<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=37936>
>
> Firefox, a free Web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, is used by
> an estimated 270 million people worldwide. To maintain and improve the
> Firefox browser, Mozilla depends not only on its team of professional
> programmers and managers but also on a network of volunteer technologists
> and enthusiasts—free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) developers—who
> contribute their expertise. This kind of peer production is unique, not only
> for its vast scale but also for its combination of structured, hierarchical
> management and open, collaborative volunteer participation. In this
> MacArthur Foundation Report, David Booth examines the Mozilla Foundation’s
> success at organizing large-scale participation in the development of its
> software and considers whether Mozilla's approach can be transferred to
> government and civil society.
>
> Booth finds parallels between Mozilla’s collaboration with Firefox users
> and the Obama administration’s philosophy of participatory governance (which
> itself amplifies the much older Jeffersonian ideal of democratic
> participation). Mozilla's success at engendering part-time, volunteer
> participation that produces real marketplace innovation suggests strategies
> for organizing civic participation in communities and government. Mozilla's
> model could not only show us how to encourage the technical community to
> participate in civic life but also teach us something about how to create
> successful political democracy.
>
> *About the Author*
>
> David R. Booth is Creative Writing Professor in the MFA in Writing Program
> at the University of San Francisco. His work has appeared in *Washington
> Square*, *The Missouri Review*, *Opium*, and other periodicals.
>
>
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12237&mlid=703
>
>
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