[p2p-research] Self-Repair manifesto

[Samuel Rose]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:57 PM, jwilliamgibson
<jwilliamgibson at ca.rr.com> wrote:
> P2P Research Guru Gang:
>
> Can't one of you send I Fix It an email and say, "Great idea, we've posted
> it! But your website architecture is not consistent with your project. Think
> about changing to x,y,z."
>
> Bill
>


I sent them a message via twitter, and it turns out that they are
working on an outgoing (read) API via xml,
https://twitter.com/#!/iFixit/statuses/3863545032744960

example: http://www.ifixit.com/api/guide/3185?type=xml That's really great news.

Personally, I'd feel better contributing to ifixit if it were BY-SA,
instead of BY-NC-SA. If I give something away for free, I want people
to be able to use it to make a living if they need to. Releasing
something under BY-SA still ensures that there is no way that others
can wholly claim it for their own. It still remains in the digital
media commons, except now there are more options for more people to do
more with it. The more that I think about it, with the existence of
BY-SA, BY-NC-SA is likely totally unneeded. It'd take you just as many
resources to enforce BY-SA as it would BY-NC-SA. Why stop people from
feeding their families?

Anyway, the ifixit site is a great project. They definitely deserve
congratulations for creating and evolving this resource.



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michel Bauwens
> To: Samuel Rose
> Cc: jwilliamgibson ; Peer-To-Peer Research List
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 7:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Self-Repair manifesto
> thanks Sam!
>
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>> >
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