[p2p-research] the issue with forking

[Alex Rollin]

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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