Re: [ox-en] Motto for the 4th conference
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:13:52 +0100
Hi StefanMz, Michel, all!
Happy new year to everyone :-) .
Last week (11 days ago) Stefan Meretz wrote:
On 2007-12-20 19:50, Stefan Merten wrote:
"Beyond" seems to be a nice term. In "Peer production and Beyond" it
seems to me as if peer production is already well established and
it's time to make a conference at least partly for the "beyond". Are
we already there?
IMHO the term peer production describes the "beyond". Thus "pp and
beyond" does not make so much sense to me. Or what do you mean
with "beyond"? Do I miss the point?
No. That's exactly my point.
I don't think, that peer production is already well established, the ox4
conference could be one step in doing so.
Though I agree with Michel that there is already a lot of peer
production around I'd also say that compared to the overall process
it's still a small niche.
Problem with the term "peer production" is also that it focusses very
much on production. It might make more sense to generalize this more
for instance to include the topic of governance.
That's right from the viewpoint of a "production" being separated from
the rest of social life as we face it in ordinary capitalism. However,
one step to a free society is to re-embed production in this old narrow
sense into society leading to a picture, where living _is_ producing
life and living conditions at the same time. In this wide sense
production includes governance, for instance.
Agreed - very much indeed. However, the problem I see here is that if
"production" is in the first part of the motto / title of the
conference it is too easy to misunderstand.
In short: I like that focus:-)
:-)
What to you think of
The World of Peer X
Free Software and Beyond
Would open up peer production to peer X and would also mention the
root of Free Software so people can have an idea of what the X is
about.
This focusses much on "peer" like "peer everything". but "peer" itself
is nothing, even not the solution of everything.
What about switching it:
Free Software and Beyond
The World of Peer Production
This appeals to me. In "The World of" every aspect of peer production
can be subsumed - like governance. This way it is also broad enough to
cover a lot of different contributions.
Unless nobody has a better idea then this is it.
Grüße
Stefan
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