[p2p-research] article request ...

[Maria Droujkova]

I made a somewhat more detailed summary about homeschooling, as a Prezi:
http://prezi.com/yyhdbpsv9s6r/

Do you want that as your blog post? Would you like this content in the
narrative form? Do you want examples, details, illustrations for any parts
of it? Do you think people would envision what each part means, or does it
need a detailed "a day in the life of a homeschooler" example? Any other
comments?

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
http://www.naturalmath.com

Make math your own, to make your own math.




On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Maria,
>
> I wonder if I could not ask you for a little, one, possibly two, articles
> for the p2p foundation blog?
>
> one would be on the dynamics of the homeschooling movement,
>
> and another a little review of the mars trilogy which mentions the
> competing business models,
>
> just in case you have time for this,
>
> Michel Bauwens
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [OK] Red Mars - open collaboration business model
> To: openkollab at googlegroups.com, sheri at speakeasy.org
>
>
> Sheri,
>
> The Mars trilogy is one of my favorites as well, for the same reason
> some people dislike it (the author using the story to express his
> Utopian ideas). Is the gathering you are talking about Wisdom 2.0 from
> your Twitter hashtags? Interesting!
>
> In the book, there were several economies at once. Some things were
> totally open and free, like this lab gifted to the underground
> scientists by the new progressive megacorp that ended up supporting
> the independence of Mars - however, it came from the said megacorp
> participating in the money-based economy on Earth. Other things were
> free as the information on the internet is now free, because there
> were no costs to duplicating them, for example, goods produced by
> self-replicating robots running on solar energy. There was an involved
> gift economy with complex rules based on some tribal traditions. There
> was a common standard for the necessities, very similar to money.
> Coops had internal goods and service economies, providing members with
> necessities. Then of course there was the old capitalist system
> coexisting with all that. One of my favorite paragraphs about culture
> clashes described the young natives approaching newly arrived Earth
> corporations with requests for machinery for their projects, and
> totally expecting the machinery to be free because the projects are
> valuable.
>
> I am closely observing (and supporting) homeschool communities and
> networks in the US. They have complex gift, care, money and coop
> economies interacting with money-based economy. It's fascinating.
>
> Cheers,
> Maria Droujkova
> http://www.naturalmath.com
>
> Make math your own, to make your own math.
>
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