P2P Encyclopedia Book Project
Book publishing project of Michel Bauwens and Samuel Rose, with James Burke for illustrations and multimedia interventions.
Status: abandoned project for now
Title and Justification
Title
MB: The Peer to Peer Encyclopedia
MB: The Peer to Peer Revolution
SubTitle
MB: A toolbook for a new life and a new society???
SR: An (Emerging?) New Way To Collaboratively Solve Human Problems?
Table of Contents
Project One: The Book
Foreword by famous person
Introduction by Michel Bauwens and/or Samuel Rose
Part One: The Foundations: The Three Meta-Paradigms
Covers the principles involved
Chapter 1: Paradigm One: Everything shall be Open and Free
INTRO
This chapter could possibly offer some or all of the examples above. It should also discuss how making resources open and free for re-use allows for:
- Open processes up to all people involved in a system. When Open and/or free for re-use, managers, employees, and customers now can cooperate and collaborate and have a voice in the direction of decision making about change and innovation. Businesses have a direct line voice to fromn their customers and employees.
This chapter should also explain the the appropriate places that Open and free for re-use can thrive as a core part of a capitalistic business model, and examples such as IBM, Apple Mac OSX, Sun, etc cna be given.
Perhaps also a brief history of how "Open" emerged as a paradigm from people trying to create free software (reference Weber's The Success of Open Source), and how it is starting to come to be extended to many areas of human creation, both by existing institutions and by groups of individuals that come together to solve a problem.
LIST OF KEYWORDS
What is "Open", and why? Open Source, Open Knowledge, Open Design, Open Futures, Open Data, , Open Access, Open Archives, , Open Business, Open Organization, , Open Content, , Open Hardware, , Open Standards
Chapter 2: Paradigm Two: Participation shall be extended to all; and all shall collaborate
Chapter 3: Paradigm Three: Our common production shall remain common
Covers the Commons, the Public Domain
Chapter 4: Distributed Networks
Part Two: The P2P Processes
Chapter 5: Peer Production or the Sharing Economy
Covers free software/open source, the Wikipedia experiment, etc..; open hardware, open design
Chapter 6: Peer Governance or Absolute Democracy
Covers leadership/management of peer production projects specifically
Covers new forms of participative democracy generally
Chapter 7: Peer Property
Covers licenses such as the GPL/CC Licenses and property forms such as trusts, cooperatives, open capital
Part Three: The Applications
Chapter 8: Business and Economics
Chapter 9: Politics and Society
Chapter 10: Philosophy and Spirituality
Chapter 11: Art, music and creativity
Project Two: The DVD
The P2P Manuscript
The Document Vault
The Audio Vault
The Video Vault
Lay out and illustration
Hugh D'Andrade, hughillustration.com Mona Caron, monacaron.com
(both recommended by Chris Carlsson, who will reconnect in October)
How to go about it
I have posted some questions in Talk:Book_Project. I'd like to outline our plan here. I see that some structure has emerged so far here with chapters and content, but I'd like to know prettymuch how we are going to structure the whole thing exactly, so that I can get to work on parts of it. For example, from what I can tell, it looks like we are going to have some "chapters", as detailed above, but also a seperate section that includes and "ABC" encyclopedia. is that right?-SR