[p2p-research] Self-Repair manifesto

[Samuel Rose]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes Bill, a great project,
> http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto
>
>
> Chris: can you post that poster?
>
> Sam, Kevin, Eric: any chance for intelligent commentary that I can post
> later?
>


This is really similar to the idea some of us in MI, USA came up with
in 2008 at a "startup weekend" event, called "Exploded View/Void and
Infringe". I am glad someone is doing something like this.

Others may disagree with me, but I see *this* as a *crucial* use-case
for systems like https://github.com/kanzure/skdb and
http://tangiblebit.com/

Specifically, above and beyond fixing and repairing mass produced
physical objects, I see that when people figure out what materials are
useful and re-usable in existing discarded mass produced goods, that
they can document the dis-assembly and processing of those materials
for use use as raw (or processed) material in new types of production.

The only *problem* (as ever) that I personally can currently see with
ifixit in particular as a website is that it does not appear to
implement an open standards-based "API" for talking to systems like
SKDB and Tangible Bit. ifixit  *really* need an open standards based
API on their site, today.

A similar, and perhaps competing site at http://bildr.org happened to
choose Free/Libre Open source software in the form of Media Wiki as
the part of their architecture. This turned out to be a good choice,
because what they walked away with was a fairly robust API that allows
for Creating, Reading, Updating of records.

example http://wiki.bildr.org/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=API|Main%20Page&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content

Furthermore, within Media wiki (and really almost any wiki) it is
possible to create a vary simple and standard way to enter information
so that it can be recognized/parsed. translated if needed, and re-used
outside of the original location. In turn, the possibility should
exist to contribute back to a resource like ifixit or bildr in the
same way from the outside (such as from another wiki, or website, or
database, etc).



> Michel
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:05 AM, jwilliamgibson <jwilliamgibson at ca.rr.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Michel,
>>
>> The P2P community needs a heads-up about a new group. Their goal is to
>> make all manufactured goods such as cars and appliances and electornic
>> gizmos amenable to self-repair. Part of their manifesto calls
>> for manufacturers to make instructions for self-repair readily available to
>> users. In my reading, self-repair groups would become P2P communities.
>>
>> See what you think.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto
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