Spanish-Language
This page should be covering Spanish-language resources on P2P, participatory, open, and commons-related movements.
Please send your suggestions to michelsub2003 at yahoo dot com. Volunteers to maintain this page would be much appreciated.
Thanks to Julen Iturbe-Ormaetxe for the first suggestions. Julen has an excellent and thoughtful blog covering P2P developments, with special attention to the cooperative economy and values: Consultoría artesana en red.
Peer to Peer Theory Texts
La economia politica de la produccion entre iguales
The essay by Michel Bauwens, the Political Economy of Peer Production is partially translated by Robin Good of Master New Media here [1]
A full translation, entitled La economía política de la Producción entre iguales has been produced by Eduardo Sadier. Thanks Eduardo!
P2P: la verdadera esencia de un mundo que viene
Roberto Martinez, a Mexican historian, has translated the extensive English-language interview on P2P], originally undertaken by Richard Poynder, into Spanish.
It is available at http://presshistory.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/p2p-la-verdadera-esencia-de-un-mundo-que-viene/
Selection by Julen Iturbe-Ormaetxe
Espai Alternatiu Torrent
URL = http://www.nodo50.org/torrent/spip/
Comment by Julen: It is written both some parts in catalonian language and some others in spanish. I translate some basic ideas:
"This is a project, a local political organization extremely experimental but emergent, that tries to build and to live according to new social realities. We are a group of people that configure a node of the organizational and personal networks that work coordinately at world level with the objective of achieving a more participative democracy. We act in order to develop new spaces in life, to avoid being treated as a market, to cooperate and support synergies among us, to help ourselves together, to auto-organize ourselves, to develop autonomy and cooperation among people, to eliminate the cruel and nihilist competitiveness and the fragmentation that divides ones from others and that hides what is essential in human beings: our hope and our wish of an absolute democracy."
Redes Sociales
URL = http://www.alianzo.com/blogs/redessociales
"very focused on social software and networking"
J. Freire's Nomada blog
URL = http://nomada.blogs.com/jfreire/
"deals with many different subjects but sometimes talking about collaboration and new perspectives in general. It is well done and supported with many references."