George Dafermos

Short bio

George Dafermos is a researcher of technology policy and management and a copyleft activist affiliated with the P2P Foundation. He holds a PhD from Delft University of Technology and is an internationally recognised expert on issues related to the governance of the commons, peer production, open/user innovation, open licensing and new organisational structures enabled by the Internet. His personal website is accessible at http://georgedafermos.github.io

• contact: georgedafermos at gmail.com
• P2PF blog articles

Recent publications

• 'Transforming the productive base of the economy through the open design commons and distributed manufacturing'. Journal of Peer Production, Issue 7 (2015) http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/peer-reviewed-papers/distributed-manufacturing/

• 'Transforming the energy matrix: Transition policies for the development of the distributed energy model' (with P. Kotsampopoulos, K. Latoufis, I. Margaris, B. Rivela, F. Washima, P. Ariza-Montobbio & J. López). Journal of Peer Production, Issue 7 (2015) http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-7-policies-for-the-commons/peer-reviewed-papers/transforming-the-energy-matrix/

• 'Images of innovation in discourses of free and open source software' (with M. van Eeten). First Monday, vol.19, no.12 (2014) http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4210/4176

• Governance Structures of Free/Open Source Software Development. Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation, Delft, the Netherlands (2012) http://www.nextgenerationinfrastructures.eu/index.php?pageID=17&itemID=605217

• 'Authority in peer production: the emergence of governance in the FreeBSD project'. Journal of Peer Production, Issue 1 (2012) http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-1/peer-reviewed-papers/authority-in-peer-production/

PhD thesis

Governance Structures of Free/Open Source Software Development (2012) Delft University of Technology [Book | Summary | Defense slides]

Policy papers

• Open design commons and distributed manufacturing. Commons Transition (2014) http://commonstransition.org/open-design-commons-and-distributed-manufacturing/
• Open, sustainable agriculture. FLOK Society (2014) http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Policy_paper_on_sustainable_agriculture
• Distributed manufacturing. FLOK Society (2014) http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Policy_paper_on_distributed_manufacturing
• Distributed energy. FLOK Society (2014) http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Policy_paper_on_distributed_energy

Selected interviews

• Interview about the FLOK Society project by CommonsFest (Mar 2014) http://commonsfest.info/en/2014/sinentefxi-me-ton-ellina-erevniti-sto-ekouador/
• Interview on Governance of Open Source by M. Bauwens & N. Gorenflo (Feb 2012) http://www.shareable.net/blog/governance-of-open-source-george-dafermos-interview