[p2p-research] [open] Open Source and Co-ops events

Wed Jan 13 03:28:30 CET 2010

really great developments Nicholas, I look forward to your blog series on
this, as there seems to be material for more than one!!

these are all great developments of the different worlds coming together

I'm opening a new section on the wiki devoted to p2p oriented agri-food
developments,

thanks for eventually having a look at the following, these have mindmap
synthesis of our findings:

-
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-everything-mindmap-and-visualization/2009/09/08(prezi
version:
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-everything-p2p-presentation-for-tedx-brussels/2009/11/23
)

-
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-design-communities-entrepreneurial-coalitions-and-the-partner-state/2009/09/04

Michel

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Nicholas Roberts <niccolo.roberts at gmail.com
> wrote:

> hi all
>
> *will write-up a structure blog post about this, but for now, email
> rush...
> *
> am really interested in this development..
>
> we have been researching a *Permaculture Cooperative*, which would start
> with an open source, tech and content publishing worker cooperative..
>
> http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/11/17/live-together-or-die-alone-on-copyright-cooperation/
>
> http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/11/07/permaculturecoop-notes-on-mondragon-permaculture/
>
> myself, Kirstie Stramler and Evan Schoepke (
> http://punkrockpermaculture.com/ ) have been doing research and working on
> various threads of this.. in Australia, Spain, Basque, France, UK, Denmark,
> USA...
>
> example: *video of our research at Mondragon on a Permaculture*Cooperative.. official history
>
> http://permaculture.tv/mondragon-official-oral-history-cooperative-arrasate/
>
> While researching a *Permaculture Cooperative* [blog<http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/>]
> [video <http://permaculture.tv/tag/mondragon/>] in the summer of 2009 we
> visited*Mondragon Cooperative* [video<http://permaculture.tv/tag/mondragon/>]
> [photos <http://picasaweb.google.com/permaculturecoop>] [blog<http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/category/mondragon/>]
> and enjoyed a day-tour of the cooperative, which included a factory tour and
> a lunch, history and business workshop. This video presentation includes an
> oral history from the days of the founder Don José María Arizmendiarrieta as
> the oldest farmers son and revolutionary journalist to the modern
> cooperative. Photos of the cooperative headquarters, the historical museum
> and the town of Arrasate.
>
> or *Making a Mondragon Permaculture Complex*
>
> http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/07/17/mondragon-permaculture-cooperative/
>
> *
> meetings*
>
> Last year, in Leeds, had a kitchen meeting with Andy Goldring of
> Permaculture Association of Britain regarding Permaculture Cooperative,
> using the domain Permaculture.coop (which I registered under trust with Bill
> Mollison's Tagari) , PermacultureCooperative.org , Permaculture.TV and
> MondragonPermaculture.com.. Goals such as developing a permaculture worker
> cooperative body of knowledge expressed online, in publications, in training
> and also in cooperative projects. As you know many food justice projects and
> transition type operations are or are becoming cooperatives. Am especially
> interested in worker cooperatives as core of multi-stakeholder cooperatives.
> In the USA, say in Detroit, the succesful grassroots urban food movement is
> in danger of being privatised and incorporated .. see
> http://punkrockpermaculture.com/2010/01/11/can-permaculture-save-detroit/
>
> Also, a couple of short informal meetings in Totnes, Bristol and Copenhagen
> plus online instant message fragments with Ben Brangwyn (co-founder) and Ed
> Mitchell (web-manager) of Transition Movement about the Permaculture
> Cooperatives... am told via Facebook today that the TTT folks are heading to
> Mondragon in June... I registered the domains SustainabilityCooperative.org,
> TransitionCooperative.org and WorkerCooperatives.com and am looking at the
> Transition Movement framework as for these projects.. especially engaging
> and transitioning existing cooperatives and businesses
>
> http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/08/26/permaculture-worker-cooperative-britain-ideas/
>
> Also had an interesting time with the Radical Routes crew.. I think there
> IS a place, in some communities and some contexts for contention-based
> politics - which is not part of the Transition or Permaculture Way... am
> looking at perhaps developing RadicalPermaculture.org for that, indeed Tony
> Andersen of the Klimaforum, gave a presentation on From Activists to
> Grassroots... http://permaculture.tv/activist-to-grassroots/, one
> personficiation of this transition was a Hungarian FOE activist who was also
> getting involved in the Hungarian Permaculture Renaissance
> http://permaculture.tv/hungary-permaculture-report-klimaforum09/
>
> our core focus is the economic justice and we are trying to learn about the
> really vibrant social economies of the ALBA countries and work-out how we
> might develop the Permaculture Cooperative project so it might inspire and
> take root in places like Africa or out-back Australia, the inner city
> neighborhoods of Detroit or wherever.. being stateside we are looking at the
> US Social Forum in Detroit as major milestone event..
>
> having said all that, there is so much happening this year, all over, that
> I do not know, where and what we will be doing..
> *
> Gaia Permaculture*
>
> As Transition Initiatives scale-up, and with the realities of Climate
> Change, have become more and more interested in global permaculture. A
> global permaforestry and global energy descent plan was presented by
> Klimaforum09 founder and permaculturalist Tony Andersen.. will post the
> video I have ASAP.. for me this is the only sensible global Transition to
> Climate Justice plan I have seen. It integrates all the threads of the
> social and environmental movements, Climate justice, Transition,
> Permaculture, the needs of the global south etc
>
> Kirstie and myself are also working on a knowledge-set called Gaia
> Permaculture. A synthesis of Gaia Theory and Permaculture. Top down and
> bottom up.
>
> http://permaculture.tv/save-the-planet-with-permaculture-tony-andersen-of-klimaforum09/
> http://permaculture.tv/permaculture-international-pioneers-klimaforum09/
> http://permaculture.tv/10-000-trees-strategy-documentation/
> http://permaculture.tv/10-000-trees-presentation/
> *
> Klimaforum Declaration and Mandate
>
> *Klimaforum09 developed an really useful and powerful document, compared
> to the complete BS to come from COP15. Klimaforum10 is in Mexico City in
> 2010.
> http://permaculture.tv/system-change-not-climate-change-klimaforum09-declaration/
>
> and the Bolivians have a climate social movements forum in Bolivia on
> Mother Earth Day. The Via Campesina / FOE alliance is a very powerful one,
> and many of the talks and presentations on sustainable agriculture, food
> sovereignty etc in Europe AND the global South where about how Via Campesina
> was working with small, peasant ecological agriculture.. very much in
> Permaculture Cooperative mode (or should I say visa versa)*
>
> *
> http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/permaculturecooperative/blog/2009/11/20/klimaforum09-mandate-spectrum-of-coverage/
>
>
> *
> **on technology
> *
> currently am operating very basically with Wordpress, YouTube and a
> software called OpenCore.
>
> am looking at a major tech-transition to Drupal, especially OpenAtrium,
> ManagingNews, MapBox, Aegir...
>
> when I attended Drupalcon in Hungary and the European Social Forum in Malmo
> in 2008 all of these Drupal appliications where in pre-release... now they
> are public betas and I am game.. indeed they look amazing good, as does
> Drupal 6 (and Drupal 7, I notice they are working on moving bottlenecks into
> Java at Pressflow)
> *
> on structure*
>
> will write-up something more structured and concrete ASAP.. still working
> on back-log of Klimaforum video and have a queue of video interviews
> lined-up for Jan for Permaculture TV
>
> cheers
>
> --
> Nicholas Roberts
> skype permaculturecoop
> plans http://gaiapermaculture.com
> video http://Permaculture.TV
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Josef Davies-Coates <
> josef at uniteddiversity.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm thinking of co-ordinating the production of 3 events during
>> Cooperative Fortnight June 19th - July 3rd 2010 about the potential of
>> uniting the Open Source and Co-op movements.
>>
>> The rough idea for the 3 events is:
>>
>> 1) presenting the amazing achievements of open source software/
>> hardware to people in the co-op movement
>> 2) presenting the amazing achievemenets of the co-op movement to
>> people in the open source world
>> 3) a big open space event that bring everyone together to try and
>> answer a question like "how can the open source and co-operative
>> movements help each other to thrive (in the face of climate, energy
>> and economic uncertainty)?"
>>
>> The events would (most likely) take place in Manchester and London.
>>
>> Who would like to get involved/ present/ fund/ help make it happen?
>>
>> A bit of background...
>>
>> Ed Mayo, who headed up the new economics foundation (nef) when I
>> worked there for a while has recently taken on a job heading up
>> Co-opsUK.
>>
>> In his first speech
>>
>> http://www.cooperatives-uk.coop/live/images/cme_resources/Public/speeches/a_dog_helps_dog_world.pdf
>> he state that one of the central economic challenges is to:
>>
>> "6. to take advantage of the digital economy, we can embrace the
>> creative commons of co-operation online, from open source to platforms
>> for user generated content, rather than try to shore up traditional
>> private business. If there can be increasing as well as diminishing
>> returns to investment in a knowledge economy, then economic policy
>> should economic sharing and limit private monopolies, rather than
>> increasing the protectionism of intelletual property as the UK and EU
>> has done."
>>
>> I met with Ed shortly after he started his new job and we discussed
>> some of the amazing potential for Co-operative and Open Source
>> movements to well, cooperate.
>>
>> For example, imagine what could happen if the Mondragon Assembly
>> factory factory (i.e. they make things that makes things)
>> http://www.mondragon-assembly.com/ (itself part of a much larger co-op
>> group) co-operated with people on the Open Manufacturing list
>> http://openmanufacturing.org/ and amazing projects like Open Source
>> Ecology http://openfarmtech.org !
>>
>> Please let me know ASAP if you can help make this happen.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Josef.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Josef Davies-Coates
>> 07974 88 88 95
>> http://uniteddiversity.com
>> Together We Have Everything
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>>
>
>

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