This will function as a mini-guide to Peer Production proper, in the more narrow sense, so that this key material is no longer only available through our almost unwieldy section on P2P Business trends in general.

Ported: selections from the first three columns of P2P Business only. Thanks to Dante Monson for assistance with the further porting for this section.

Introduction

1. Karim Lakhani on the Open Source Software communities Open Development process [1]
2. A Bibliography on Peer Production. Recommendations by James Boyle.

Citations

On the connection between Modularity and Sharing

"If the stuff to hand isn't modular, you can't really share, because your stuff isn't compatible with other people's stuff. If it isn't modular, you can't share out tasks and scale. If you can't share out tasks, you can't have people working independently, at their own pace and in their own way, which means the project isn't really open. If it isn't modular, you can't swap in some new elements while leaving everything else untouched, which means no "release early, release often", no experimentation, no rapid evolution. Modularity is indispensable."

- Glyn Moody: [2]

Key Resources

Key Articles

1. Paul Hartzog on the Advantages of Scale of Openness and Peer Production
2. Dmytri Kleiner's Critique of Peer Production Ideology
3. Michel Bauwens: Is Peer Production a Real Mode of Production

Key Video

• Charles Leadbeater on the Rise of the Amateur Professional