NOTE: I've had a series of increasingly great responses from Toby - please see the comments Toby Hemenway, a leading permaculture author sent me a message with very very thinly veiled threat to sue me for including his great book Gaia's Garden here https://files.uniteddiversity.com/Permaculture/ (someone else has also put it up on Scribd) Here is the text of his message: at https://files.uniteddiversity.com/Permaculture/ you have a pirated copy of my book, Gaia's Garden. My publisher, Chelsea … [Read more...]
California’s P2P Carsharing Bill Passes Assembly 63-0
Carsharing just took a step forward on June 3rd in California when AB1871 passed the Assembly with zero opposition. The bill now goes to the Senate and could become law before the year is out. We talked about the potential for this bill to accelerate the already fast growing carsharing industry here. Below is the press release by California Assemblymember Dave Jones who is spearheading the bill. You can voice your support for the bill at peer-to-peer carsharing startup Spride Share's petition … [Read more...]
Most retweeted P2P Foundation articles
Via Topsy: * Estimating the Development Cost of Open Source Software * The 10 Most Important P2P Trends of the Year * Cory Doctorow. Makers * Abundance Creates Utility But Destroys Exchange Value * Greenwashing or conscious capitalism? * Will the Web bankrupt government? * Facebook and your data * Could American Democracy survive 13 million foreclosures? View original post … [Read more...]
The decentralisation of Pirate Bay filesharing
Following a suggestion by Rasmus Fleischer, a leading member of the Pirate Bureau, Torrentfreak concludes: “The Pirate Bay will dissolve, but in its place many “new TPBs” will return, just without the familiar domain name and pirate ship logo. This is very similar to a concept Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde had in mind for the new Pirate Bay. A decentralized setup through which the ‘torrent site’ controls only a tiny part of the ’sharing’ process. At the basis of this new scheme are two … [Read more...]
Rural revolution in Colombia goes digital and p2p
“Latinamerica is particularly well equipped for these changes (peer production) by their cultural affinity with the values of P2P”, said Michel Bauwens on an interview for Pagina/12 the Argentinian journal. This statement seems to prove itself when one reads Elyssa Pachico;s article “Rural revolution in Colombia goes digital” (first published by CounterPunch, you can find it also at her site). In poor rural Colombia, where phone lines, drinkable water and decent roads can be hard to find and … [Read more...]
Peer to peer ‘unclasses’
Springwise reports on the LaidOffCamp initiative: “Unconferences have become increasingly common over the past decade or so, notable in particular for their low-key structure and participant-driven format. LaidOffCamp is one such example, and now—inspired, in fact, by that initiative—the concept has been applied to education with the launch of (un)classes. Aiming to provide a more casual and ad hoc way for people to learn something new during their limited free time, the (un)classes website … [Read more...]
Transition Handbook Now Open Source!
I've been meaning to contribute for ages, but here is my first post on the P2P Foundation blog, about my role in helping to open source the wonderful Transition Handbook … [Read more...]
P2P Foundation Ning
UPDATE: Save the P2P Foundation Ning! A week or so ago I created the P2P Foundation Ning Here is Michel's post about it, and this is how it happened... As I browsed the archives of the Strategic P2P list I came across this old thread (from mid-Dec 07) where Michel asked "would it make sense to have a ning-based p2p network"? As I explain at the end of that thread, I thought Why Not? Hi Michel, I think we chose ning because it is simple, free and featureful and therefore we've got … [Read more...]
Peer Trust Network, OSE and More!
I sent this out on The Open Co-op mailing list (amongst others) but should've posted it up here too... This chap Stan Rhodes has a vision that is very familiar to me...https://www.p2pfoundation.net/Narrative_on_Discovering_the_Peer_Trust_Network_System https://www.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Trust_Network_ProjectAnd if you haven't caught up with Open Source Ecology lately, you've got to check this out: CEB (Compressed Earth Block) Phase 1 - Donehttps://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=91Open Engineering: … [Read more...]