Commons Network

This is a temporary page to collect material on Commons-related organizations and resources by participating members of The Commons Network.

Scope of the Project

Commons-related topics include: 1) access to knowledge and common cultural resources via the free and open paradigms; 2) process that are geared towards the broadest possible participation (the paticipatory and peer to peer paradigms); 3) legal and institutional forms which protect common goods from private appropriation.

Proposed Name

Michel Bauwens: "The Commons Network"

Content

Key Organizations

CoForum

Cooperation Commons [1]

The Foundation for P2P Alternatives [2]

CollabForge.net (Umbrella organisation for MetaCollab & ABRI - site currenlty under construction)

Key Resource Directories

The P2P Encyclopedia, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Category:Encyclopedia

Associated P2P Directories: Books [3]; Individuals [4]; Movements [5];

MetaCollab.net collaborative research project on collaboration [6]

Australian Bill of Rights Initiative (ABRI) [7]

Reading Material

Blogs and Newsletters

P2P Foundation blog, http://blog.p2pfoundation.com

P2P Foundation blog in Greel, http://bloggr.p2pfoundation.net/

Social Synergy, http://socialsynergy.typepad.com/social_synergy/

Stigmergy: http://stigmergiccollaboration.blogspot.com/

Darren Sharp, http://post-users.com/blog

Discussion fora and mailing lists

MetaCollab mailing list: http://lists.wikicities.com/mailman/listinfo/collaboration-l (low volume)

The Cooperation Commons mailing list:

Document Depositories

The P2P Articles and Documents Repository [8] ;

Audio-visual Material

The P2P Podcasts Directory [9];

The P2P Webcasts Directory [10]

Key Activists and Researchers

Sam Rose-Social Synergy