Dafermos, George

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 pertaining to digital commons, peer production, open/user innovation, online communities 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 writings

• 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 interviews

• Interview about the FLOK Society project by CommonsFest (Mar 2014) http://commonsfest.info/en/2014/ellinika-sinentefxi-me-ton-ellina-erevniti-sto-ekouador/#more-1083
• Interview about the FLOK Society project by B. Horne (Nov 2014) http://floksociety.org/en/2013/12/04/george-dafernos-la-p2p-se-enfrenta-a-la-hegemonia-del-neoliberalismo/
• 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