Beside Open Design, Open Hardware, Open Manufacturing, there is another path the Open Everything phenomenon is taking: Open Money. Although the Open Money projects are in their early steps, they represent a very important strategic and metadesign move in order to enable the spreading of community-based open and p2p organizational forms.
The open money project aims [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Currency, Economy, Enabler, Locality, Meta-design, Money, Open Money, Peer-to-Peer, Platform

From Michel Bauwens, here is a mindmap that presents a condensation of 3 years of his research at the P2P Foundation. The main body of the visualization contains 6 aspects of processes representing the cycle of reproduction and growth of openness in our societies:

Aspects of Openness
Enablers of Openness
Infrastructures of Openness
Open Practices
Open Domains of Practice
Open Products
Open [...]

Tags: Maps, Open Culture, Peer-to-Peer

A quick announcement: Michel Bauwens, Belgian philosopher and Peer-to-Peer theorist, founder of the P2P Foundation, is going to be in Milan in these days and he’s going to give two lectures.
Here’s the first one:

Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Time: [...]

Tags: Crisis, Economy, Peer-to-Peer, University

I’m very honoured to say that Michel Bauwens invited me to write a contribution for the P2P Foundation Blog, and here you can find it: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/massimo-menichinelli-open-p2p-design-as-enabling-open-p2p-systems/2008/11/24
It’s a resume of the Open P2P Design history and concept, and of its differences from Open Design as well.

While Open Design focuses on opening a design project, Open [...]

Tags: Open Innovation, Peer-to-Peer

Linus Torvalds:

I think the real issue about adoption of open source is that nobody can really ever “design” a complex system. That’s simply not how things work: people aren’t that smart – nobody is. And what open source allows is to not actually “design” things, but let them evolve, through lots of different pressures in the market, and having the end result just continually improve.

And doing so in the

Tags: Complexity, Free Software, Linux, Peer-to-Peer

Comunità Open P2P (zoom)

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Un approfondimento sulle Comunità Open P2P…

Una prima definizione di Comunità Open P2P

Prima di riassumere brevemente la parte più metodologica della mia tesi e le conclusioni da trarre, penso sia utile una precisazione su quei casi che ho definito Comunità Open P2P. La metodologia che ho sviluppato nella

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Open P2P Communities, Open Source, Peer-to-Peer, Web 2.0

P2P Community Network (GnuMap Project)

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Perché il Design dovrebbe imparare da Free Software, Open Source e P2P come relazionarsi ad una comunità?

Perché le comunità Free Software, Open Source e P2P hanno sviluppato forme organizzative e principi che hanno dimostrato di permettere una auto-organizzazione ottimale su base comunitaria, riuscendo a raggiungere dimensioni potenzialmente elevate. Hanno sviluppato, cioè, un approccio

Tags: Community, Design, Free Software, Open P2P Communities, Open Source, Peer-to-Peer