Hi Michel, Phoebe, Hackers <div><br></div><div>This is an information and developer gathering mission.</div><div>I intend to see to it everyone benefits. </div><div>I hope you might as well. </div><div><br></div><div>Peer-to-Peer Local-to-Global Platform</div>
<div><br></div><div>There's a particular platform I'm developing with the <a href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/Home">OpenKollab</a> group that differs from well known media ecologies like facebook or twitter. The peer-to-peer local-to-global (P2P-L2G) platform makes a distinction from the traditional notion of social networking software by expressing the virtual as it represents physical environments with the option when wanted to manipulate distant physical environments from a computer in a collaberative manner.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Who's doing this already?</div><div><br></div><div>Closed but exists, leaning toward this area:</div><div><br></div><div>Meetup.com</div><div>What others?</div><div><br></div><div>In Development: </div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Ted Hall with 100K Garages</span></div>
<div><a href="http://www.100kgarages.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.100kgarages.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Paul Fernhout with OSCOMAK</div><div><a href="http://www.oscomak.net/">http://www.oscomak.net/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Bryan Bishop with SKDB</div><div><a href="http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Skdb">http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Skdb</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Smári McCarthy with Tangible Bit</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://tangiblebit.com/">http://tangiblebit.com/</a></span></div>
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Then there's Sam with FLOWS -- not a L2G platform itself, but a core architecture that removes code redundancies and in practice assures all software can talk to other software and related components--like hardware. </div>
<div><a href="http://flows.panarchy.com/index.php?title=Main_Page">http://flows.panarchy.com/index.php?title=Main_Page</a> </div><div><br></div><div>What else?</div><div><br></div><div>Related:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/">http://www.thingiverse.com/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>What else?</div><div><br></div><div>At OpenKollab we're at the networking and formulation stage, amplifying early for collective attenuation. Real time engagement in the form of irc chat/Skype and a flexible platform (wagn) is the secret sauce at present. We're open to other platforms. We're also using a discussion list cc'd. </div>
<div><br></div><div>From...</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/Home">http://wiki.openkollab.com/Home</a> </div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 21px; ">Add <a class="known-card" href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Resources" style="color: rgb(68, 136, 68); text-decoration: none; ">Resources</a> that relate to collaboration. Add <a class="wanted-card" href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/%3Ca_href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.openkollab.com%2Fwagn%2FPeople%22%3EPeople%3C%2Fa%3E" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; "></a><a href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/People" style="color: rgb(68, 136, 68); text-decoration: none; ">People</a> you know, like yourself, developing collaborative tools. We are discussing and building on a set of <a class="known-card" href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/CollabPrinciples" style="color: rgb(68, 136, 68); text-decoration: none; ">Principles and Practices</a> to guide community action, both locally and globally, to determine what <a class="known-card" href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Process_Model" style="color: rgb(68, 136, 68); text-decoration: none; ">Process Model</a> we follow and what <a class="known-card" href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Platform" style="color: rgb(68, 136, 68); text-decoration: none; ">Platform</a> we use. "</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">My present area of focus and the focus of this topic:</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">From...</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Process_Model">http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Process_Model</a></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">""</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">"You are all already following a "purpose->process->platform" model to a large degree, which is good (first define your purpose, then work to create useful processes that help you accomplish the stated purpose, then choose your platforms based on the processes you have devised)." -Sam Rose</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">""</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">Resource Management Software. Corporate and Closed?</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">The only other platforms I recall are in the corporate and closed realm, usually referred to as resource management software. Like...</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">SAP</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></div><div>I hope Paul Fernhout might present a list here.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I cannot see the economic incentive for enterprise software firms to develop superior free and open source versions. Yet, if we know how these interface usefulnesses work, this can funnel into the P2P-L2G process and platform template, and with any group or individual purposes templates creates return to the repository for f/os use or whatever license you or your group decide. I hear firms like SAP are firing a few people; so we might want to get to know the damaged goods and give them a home. ;) I do not see proprietary RM stakeholder support until such time P2P-L2G reduces significant marketshare--and by that point--there will be no need for negotiation. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Business would like very much to do away with software licensing fees and use a free/open source equivalent, especially if it performed better and helped attract customers to make a preference specific, custom designed product. Drink the Kool-Aid fellas!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please add to the list above</div><div>Distiguishing between open and closed models. </div><div>Cited here:</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Resources">http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Resources</a></div>
<div>Please point me directly to your resources</div><div>So I may direct to it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Okay,</div><div><br></div><div>Here's our window to develop a single platform that can advance all of our projects further in a market neutral fashion beyond our organizational, institutional, or siloed social networks. </div>
<div> </div><div>I hope all of you cc'd in particular will respond with input about your project, share what other projects you know of, and how they might relate to OpenKollab or similar efforts.</div><div><br></div>
<div>I cannot seem to stress enough that we must all work together on something that can better fulfill the goals of our projects or works. This is not only business in the productive sense, but personal. This is why it will not only work, but out-perform the rest. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If something is not clear, please contact me directly. If I don't have the answers, we'll find someone who does. </div><div><br></div><div>Please direct what you'd like to make public on this topic to the Open Manufacturing list so we can better stay on the same page. </div>
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hack on...</div><div><br></div><div>Nathan </div><div><a href="mailto:knuggy@gmail.com">knuggy@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If not already, please read the contents attached for further context: </div>
<div>(thanks in advance for allowing this anti-spam to distribute throughout your networks)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear Nathan, Sam:<br><br>our p2p friend phoebe moore, co-creator of the p2p research group, will be organizing a conference on 'media ecologies' and asked me for some suggestions<br>
<br>one of them would be 'media platforms for peer production and open collaboration' which could bring a few people together now working on similar collaborative platform ideas ...<br>
<br>In this case, this is tentative and depending on funding and where people have to come from etc.., a new names of people would be useful .. the idea is to give them the opportunity to discuss some ways of combining efforts<br>
<br>the presentations for the conference should include: 1) what is lacking now; 2) what to think of commercial platforms a la facebook: 3) what are possible ways forward ...<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Nathan Cravens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knuggy@gmail.com" target="_blank">knuggy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Sam,<div><br></div><div>I'm well rested now. Thanks ;)</div><div><br></div><div>OpenKollab needs an open architectural base so it can support a variety of small group developers already at work on specific projects such as your own. Now we need guys like you to focus on creating that center from which all varieties might flourish. I am now creating a process model with this group as a template to begin to see what people's needs are in forming projects outside organizational boundaries. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Matt Cooperrider began a subproject within OK to create a <a href="http://meetup.com" target="_blank">meetup.com</a> OpenKollab group.</div><div>From what I hear, and soon to explore further, is <a href="http://meetup.com" target="_blank">meetup.com</a> is not just a platform that builds face-to-face meetings, but a project tool as well, with virtual conference features and such. My recollection of <a href="http://meetup.com" target="_blank">meetup.com</a> is a few years old, back when it was just a face-to-face tool. From what I gather, Matt is forming this to surface a core team of developers for the OpenKollab process and platform to better distinguish between discussion and development. Matt has a contact within the <a href="http://meetup.com" target="_blank">meetup.com</a> development team. That should be helpful. </div>
<div><br></div><div>There are a few coders in this project, I just need to get in touch with them directly to see what they want to do. </div><div><br></div><div>I also need to get in touch with everyone that wants to develop the process model. </div>
<div>And artists as well...</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
I have learned from constructing web based learning systems that the way you set out to create tools is not going to be universally re-usable, but instead will probably meet the needs of a significant niche in the long tail of needs. </blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>OK must meet the niche and the entirety of the long tail of needs. The models I am attempting to build with this community will simply be an open template to inspire the do-it-all web-to-DIY to come. I'm only attempting to get the ball rolling on presenting a better way to link everyone into one open interface where everything is socially networked (people, interests, projects, designs, land, materials, ecologies, ect). I really hope my intentions are becoming clearer. I just want to see where you might fit into this, because it seems what you're doing now, like with FLOWS, is vital to OK without altering much of what you're already doing. </div>
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What this means is that you'll need to decide whether you want to dedicate to serving that niche, or if you want to help a broader base. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Both. I hope that is now clear. </div><div> </div>
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if broader base, your tools and processes and the way that they can be configured need to be highly adaptable and changeable. So, the above description does have adaptability and evolve-ability in some ways, but is tightly coupled and hard wired in others.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I agree. Like in terms of the consensus assumption I posed, groups should decide whether consensus is necessary or not or of what form of governance they want with each defined process. A consensus approach might be (a potential 'is') default setting or template created by another community. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I really think we're on the same page here, Sam, it just seems I need to better express the openness for a decision path after describing each process. I've made the assumption the reader can pick or add to each described process. I'll be sure to clarify this as we move forward. I suppose in a way I have by describing these models as sessions. (See: <a href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Process_Model" target="_blank">http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Process_Model</a>) The OK group did a process session before I arrived previously titled spec and changed to Process Model Session 1, so now on the wagn three sessions are listed. I hope this representation will demonstrate the flexibility of the model without getting lost or leaving something without a direction at all. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I hope you might attract some readings that relate to systems or process modeling and development so that can improve that design if necessary. I'll add them to Resources.</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Resources" target="_blank">http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Resources</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't want this group to end up like the Open Manufacturing list. This is why I came aboard quickly while the iron is clearly hot, because I know after a measure of time people will fall into assumptive traps and stagnate. This is not to say I think the OM list is a failure or that the people there are inept, quite the contrary. It is a really great list in terms of other lists that came before it. Brilliant people are discussing brilliant things and posting news and other media that relate to the subjects we've discussed. Its now well established as a learning community and discussion group with just a handful of highly active participants like Paul and Bryan, (that may well have kept the list alive) but now as the group has exceeded 200 subscribers, more folk are coming into the discussive mix. The ideas I wanted to pursue at the time when forming the OM list were too vague to be of much help to anything like OK if it were to start then. By the time I developed a pretty good idea in the direction OK is pursuing, the group had already settled into a pattern that many other discussion lists have. What I'm coming to understand by watching the OK community come alive is that without "real time engagement" links within the group are diminished from each other and the results are what you find in the majority of e-mail based discussion lists today. I'm glad I started the group, its a great group, and it will continue to add to the theoretical work now being applied to OK.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now is the chance to note to Matt that a general discussion about this area is already available and that we can keep the existing OK list development focused. If we do sense more general discussion surfacing, we can start new lists that distinguish between the two. I say this from experience, when Bryan Bishop tried to establish a development discussion group for OM it flopped. I could go into why, but that's fodder for another discussion, one I'd rather have at OM. I'll start one if you're interested, but I'm more interested in developing OK with you. ;)</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
The metaphor for architecture for a malleable collaboration base is "small pieces loosely joined". Many small reusable and reconfigurable parts, all optional, and the whole systems itself optional. You want to make it really easy to add new tools, or for people to work with their existing tools in conjunction with yours. On top of that, I would not even start to design and build tools until you actually have some real world people to work with, who are asking for web based collab tools, and let them drive the design. But, that is just me.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I agree. Let the user's drive the needs, then develop solutions. In this universal architecture there must be a series of "project templates" or solutions that are stored in a user friendly directory to use and revise when needed. These revisions then add to the template repository. This process can apply not only to projects--but all things--anything imaginable. So long as we keep it an open, transparent, and as gift economic as possible I'm very confident the "anything imaginable" will be a good thing for more people than what platform or "conditions creators" we have available today. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The 'people' >> 'interest' >> 'project' >> 'design' >> 'resources' as a process formula (or something like that) will found the pursuit of the many aims to come. Its just a matter of "what do you want to do and how can we apply that to the OK platform." The user is maximized by OpenKollab--this vital link--which connects the person to the world that person may have an interest, and in easily pursuing these interests, when using this platform, the actions benefit the world. We're already seeing this development in the many process outlines that have come before as, Sam, you've mentioned--from Memex before to Facebook and Deepqa today. If we, even as a small group, keep our heads up, our eyes clear, and have an active sincere interest in one another, the trust from within our group will spread to others to better develop the OK platform as we call it presently, and so we have ourself that little everything module in no time--safe and sound. ;)</div>
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