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A key change at iCommons
If you're not part of the iCommons mailing list, take a look at the letter that Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, sent to the list yesterday:
Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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Peer Production Practicalities at iSummit 07
DaveDuarte · Cape Town (South Africa) · 2 comments
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Commons based peer production is all about bringing people together, especially online, to voluntarily collaborate on large and meaningful creations. Prime examples of this are GNU/Linux, OpenBusiness and, of course, Wikipedia. These creations start with vision and understanding, but their success is often dependent on funding, dedication, and the right tools and technologies to support them.
At this year's iSummit the "Peer Production - Social, Technological and Economic Norms" stream will highlight and discuss ways to boost (or start) a peer produced project. In particular, we'll be looking at the gritty issues like motivation, funding, sustainability, and what free resources and software you can use.
We'll be kicking off the stream with a workshop on how to translate high level ideas and vision into practical, working communities. The panelists run successful open communities and they'll be sharing their methods and advising us on how to make sure our efforts are fruitful.
The next panel is entitled "Commons Based Peer Production in Second Life", where we'll look at the role of Virtual World's in helping people from different cultures come together, communicate, and above all: add real-world value.
We'll also be looking at how to grow commons based business models. Our focus here will be on peer-economics, non-monetary business incentives and emerging open business models. The panel will present numerous business models ranging from distributed peer investment in music, film and the arts to p2p finance services and innovative organizational models following the Open Source paradigm. We will also launch OpenBusiness Tools aimed at helping to grow Commons Based Business Models.
The third workshop will gather artists and users together with FLOSS (free/libre open source software) developers to find out what both sides could do to increase the use of free software multimedia tools among artists.
The 6 invited iCommons Artists in Residence at the Summit will join us in discussing how they, as contemporary professional artists, engage with the copyfight and balance that with artistic practice, funding and the sale of their work.
The new iCommons site is going to be a powerful platform to bring cool projects and ideas to the fore; to gather collaborators and coordinate their efforts. Attendees to this stream will be encouraged and guided in using it.
Heather Ford and the iCommons team will close the Peer Production stream with some guidelines on how to get involved in peer producing the iCommons Summit 2008 to help make it the best yet!
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