[p2p-research] stack

[Michel Bauwens]

As I said Alex, I really applaud your positivist approach to making p2p
principes concrete and actionable in real projects,

one issue is how to present all that work to our audience,

if you look at the main wiki page, there is space at the bottom of the left
column,

also, I would suggest an overview of your different initiatives for
publication in our blog ... as you know, some of our items have been read by
half a million people ... in any case, this would insure that a lot more
people would be aware of what you are doing,

as I emailed privately, I don't see myself having the time to participate
fully, but any concrete needs can always be addressed to me and I can see
what I can do,

perhaps at a later time, I will try to do more ...

Michel

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michel,
>
> You wrote http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Toolkit
>
> The stack isn't much different, and I have inserted a logic into it.
>
> Concepts are foundational, and that's where the definitions happen.
>
> There are P2P Concepts.  Peer.  Peering.  P2P Network.  These have
> pages now, that are very-too empty.
>
> Then there are collaboration systems, which aid the development of
> orienting generalization, but usually involve something outside a peer
> and so are intersubjective.
>
> Then there are p2p networks and these are aperspectival.  So, they
> require that something like transparency be treated, as a subject,
> through the eyes of a peer, 2 peers in a network, and in relation to
> significant systems like a p2p politics or a specific commons as a
> target of the generalization.
>
> When a model is written, like a knowledge commons model, it reuses the
> concepts.  It should autolist them on a page, actually, as supporting
> documents.  Make it easy, is the point.
>
> There are lots of models, and then there are functioning
> networks...many, in fact, but few that are written up.  These go into
> the models category for now, though.
>
> So, fulfilling the p2ptoolkit is on track.  This stuff is all
> application oriented information meant to serve as the 'book' that we
> walk into a consultancy with.  Imagine you need to write a position
> paper, and you write 50 pages in 40 minutes because you can reuse all
> these definitions and perspectives.  That's what I'm talking about.
> Agile responses will get us jobs on worthwhile projects where we run
> the show.
>
> This is the rebuilding of the wiki into a support tool and action
> learning lab that houses all the knowledge commons for the
> consultancy.  That consultancy is the one that 'exploits' and renews
> the commons, and the help docs are the protocol for playing with us.
> Have you seen the help section by the way?
>
> http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Foundation_Wiki
>
> Kinda crazy huh?  It's all, you know, like, organized, and helpful and
> stuff?
>



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