P2P Encyclopedia Book Project
Book publishing project of Michel Bauwens and Samuel Rose, with James Burke for illustrations and multimedia interventions.
Title and Justification
Title
MB: The Peer to Peer Encyclopedia
MB: The Peer to Peer Revolution
SubTitle
MB: A toolbook for a new life and a new society???
SR: An (Emerging?) New Way To Solve Human Problems
Table of Contents
Project One: The Book
Foreword by famous person
Introduction by Michel Bauwens and/or Samuel Rose
Part One: The Foundations: The Three Meta-Paradigms
Covers the principles involved
Chapter 1: Paradigm One: Everything shall be Open and Free
What is "Open", and why? Open Source, Open Knowledge, Open Design, Open Futures, Open Data, Open Money, Open Access, Open Archives, Open Biology, Open Business, Open Organization, Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Hardware, Open Politics,Open Source Disaster Recovery, Open Standards, Open Textbooks
Chapter 2: Paradigm Two: Participation shall be extended to all; and all shall collaborate
Chapter 3: Paradigm Three: Our common production shall remain common
Covers the Commons, the Public Domain
Chapter 4: Distributed Networks
Part Two: The P2P Processes
Chapter 5: Peer Production or the Sharing Economy
Covers free software/open source, the Wikipedia experiment, etc..; open hardware, open design
Chapter 6: Peer Governance or Absolute Democracy
Covers leadership/management of peer production projects specifically
Covers new forms of participative democracy generally
Chapter 7: Peer Property
Covers licenses such as the GPL/CC Licenses and property forms such as trusts, cooperatives, open capital
Part Three: The Applications
Chapter 8: Business and Economics
Chapter 9: Politics and Society
Chapter 10: Philosophy and Spirituality
Chapter 11: Art, music and creativity
Project Two: The DVD
The P2P Manuscript
The Document Vault
The Audio Vault
The Video Vault