George Dafermos
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Short bio
George Dafermos is a 'copyleft activist', a member of the Commons|Lab open technology co-op and a researcher affiliated with the P2P Foundation. He holds a PhD from Delft University of Technology and is an internationally-known researcher and thinker on issues related to the governance of the commons, the mode of peer production, the role of users in the innovation process, open licensing and new organizational 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
- 'Prophets and advocates of peer production' In M. O’Neil, C. Pentzold & S. Toupin (eds.) The Handbook of Peer Production, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2021)
- Digital Commons: Cyber-commoners, peer producers and the project of a post-capitalist transition Heteropolitics: Refiguring the Common and the Political (2020)
- The Catalan Integral Cooperative: an organizational study of a post-capitalist cooperative P2P Foundation/Robin Hood Cooperative (2017)
- 'Transforming the productive base of the economy through the open design commons and distributed manufacturing'. Journal of Peer Production, Issue 7 (2015)
- '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)
- 'Images of innovation in discourses of free and open source software' (with M. van Eeten). First Monday, vol.19, no.12 (2014)
- Governance Structures of Free/Open Source Software Development. Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation, Delft, the Netherlands (2012)
- 'Authority in peer production: the emergence of governance in the FreeBSD project'. Journal of Peer Production, Issue 1 (2012)
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)
- Sustainable agriculture. FLOK Society (2014)
- Distributed manufacturing. FLOK Society (2014)
- Distributed energy. FLOK Society (2014)
- Biodiversity. FLOK Society (2014)
Selected interviews
- Interview about the FLOK Society project by CommonsFest (Mar 2014)
- Interview on Governance of Open Source by M. Bauwens & N. Gorenflo (Feb 2012)
Articles
- Articles by George Dafermos in the P2P Foundation blog.