Stefan Meretz

= German Commons advocate affiliated with the Oekonux group

URL = http://meretz.de/

Bio

Stefan Meretz, Berlin, Germany, *1962. Ph.D. in material science, diploma in computer science, webmaster at german united services union (ver.di), managing free software projects. Research of political economy of free software and member of the Oekonux (Economy & GNU/Linux) network. Teaching German Critical Psychology. Co-founder of the Keimform blog (http://keimform.de/), a blog investigating germ forms of a new commons-based society. Running several web projects (http://meretz.de/), member of Facebook.

Recommended publications

Text about the intrinsic motivation in peer-commons projects, which is called "Selbstentfaltung" in german:

- Selbstentfaltung (english)

Series of articles about Peer Production and Societal Transformation:

- Peer Production and Societal Transformation

Slides from a talk at the Open Knowledge Conference 2011:

- Understanding Commons and Peer Production

Discussion of the relationship between »Zeitgeist« and the Commons:

- »Zeitgeist« and Commons

Ten Theses About Global Commons Movement:

- Ten Theses About Global Commons Movement

Slidecast of a talk at the International Commons Conference 2010 in Berlin:

- The Generative Logic of the Commons

Text about a statistical analysis, that two third of the wealth is produced non-economically:

- Productive pigs and unproductive children

Text about commons as a part of a goods taxonomy:

- Commons in a taxonomy of goods

Debate on the question whether open money is a strategic liberator or not:

- The question of transition and the role of money

List of English-language Keimform articles, many of them about the commons:

- http://www.keimform.de/category/english/