Here’s the old good story of LEGO Mindstorms and how they learned that active users can co-create important value with a company (hacking their product / services). But this time, instead of reading this story in a book, we can listen to Eric von Hippel telling it (and we can watch the videoclips too!).

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Few months ago I prepared a presentation in English about Open P2P Design and openp2pdesign.org that was not used; I remade it now and I decided to publish it as the shortest and easiest introduction to Open P2P Design methodology and the openp2pdesign.org project. You can find it in Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/openp2pdesign/what-is-open-p2p-design

You can download the pdf file and share it, it’s under a Creative Commons license:
Massimo.Menichinelli_what.is.openp2pdesign

Here is a video of Charles Leadbeater on TED, about Pro-Ams (“innovative, committed and networked amateurs working to professional standards”) and Open Innovation.

The theme of the video is closely related to this book (that I found very useful while developing my thesis): “The Pro-Am Revolution. How enthusiasts are changing our economy and society written by Charles Leadbeater and Paul Miller in 2004, available under a Creative Commons license from Demos.
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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 P2P Design focuses on building a community or social system that follows Open P2P principles and organizational forms in order to put in practice a collaborative activity that generates Open Innovations. With Open Design we offer a design project to an Open P2P social system; with Open P2P Design we co-design and enable an Open P2P social system. Not just open processes and open contents, but also peer-to-peer relationships.

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