[p2p-research] Fwd: meoh platform

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Subject: Introducing Michel and Gael
To: Gaël Van Weyenbergh <lessines at hotmail.com>, Michel Bauwens <
michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


Hi Gael,
Thanks for your post.
I feel like introducing you to Michel Bauwens.

Michel,Gael is developing
femalepleasure.org/meoh

femalepleasure.org/meoh

Michel has been engaged in documenting p2p approaches, and facilitates
convergence around such ideas,
Including through p2pfoundation.net (wiki,blog,mailing list), where I have
no doubt there can be shared understanding,interest,and potential
synergies,and emergence.

I will write further when I ll have adsl internet connected.

For now,from mobile phone.
Gael's post from forum below.

Dante

On May 20, 2010 12:26 PM, "Dante-Gabryell Monson" <dante.monson at gmail.com>
wrote:

Participants: artbrock <http://meoh/users/artbrock>,
avdbogaert<http://meoh/users/avdbogaert>
, Dante <http://meoh/users/dante>, ETheunis <http://meoh/users/etheunis>,
jay.standish <http://meoh/users/jaystandish>,
jeanlucroux<http://meoh/users/jeanlucroux>
, Leander <http://meoh/users/leander>, sondenkind<http://meoh/users/sondenkind>
 and G <http://meoh/users/g>
  [image: G's picture] <http://meoh/users/g>
 G <http://meoh/users/g>
05/19/2010 - 00:27
 New

Dear all,

Welcome and thank you for your interest on the Meoh system! Like in any task
of this magnitude, the first attempts to gather people around this
stammering project failed to convince. It created, at best, indulgent
smiles. Today, the idea is more consistent and feeds passionate
conversations. It shows that a collective need has to be fulfilled.
Hopefully, we're on the way to address an answer. Since the first drafts,
almost a year ago, the emerging idea evolved thanks to many and especially
thanks to my friend Anna (and site administrator - sondenkind) who pointed
out the potential behind organic groups in the Drupal/CiviCRM architecture.
She also stressed the need to come up with a different model than the ones
based on secrecy, competition and scarcity. Another milestone in this quest
was the discovery of the Metacurrency project. The peer-to-peer approach at
the very core of the system makes the model robust, elegant and appealing.
Knowing that folks were developing an open source solution made the whole
Meoh project more workable. It then brought an enormous regain of energy and
confidence. Bernard Lietaer and Jean-Luc Roux gave the project true
attention. They came up with valuable resources in the field of
complementary currencies and collective intelligence. They also introduced
me to The Hub Brussels as we share similar concerns. We logically decided to
share knowledge as well. This is the purpose of this platform.

Still, a lot needs to be achieved and some elements presented here may seem
sketchy. Collectively, I assume that we do have most of the competences
required to give this project to a good end. I am neither a specialist in
economics nor distributed networks. Instead I had the chance to work with
communities, to understand their needs and to make the link with people who
may help. Eric Harris-Braun published a post on a Zulu say which has been of
much inspiration. Here it is : "You can achieve the impossible, but to do
it, you need to see the invisible. We know how many seeds there are in a
pumpkin, but we do not know how many pumpkins there are in a seed." This is
what I enjoin you to find out together.

This site contains some bugs. Most of them are known and will be fixed
within a few days. Anna is currently involved in an art exhibition which
requires full attention. Thank you for allowing a slight delay.

Gaël Van Weyenbergh




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