George Dafermos

Short bio

George Dafermos is an Internet researcher and copyleft activist affiliated with the P2P Foundation. He holds a PhD in Technology Policy and Management 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://opensource.gr/people/dafermos/

• contact: georgedafermos at gmail.com

Recent publications

• '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, no.1 (2012) http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-1/peer-reviewed-papers/authority-in-peer-production/

Recent policy papers

• 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

Recent 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