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Hiddinghausen talks, part 2: A network for sharing and shared production

Christian Siefkes
8 September 2008


Free design is an important building block for spreading peer production,
but it is not enough. A second topic discussed in Hiddinghausen
<http://www.keimform.de/2008/09/04/hiddinghausen-talks-1-free-design/> was
therefore how to facilitate and encourage the sharing and the shared
production of physical goods and of services in all areas of life. My
proposal here is called the *Commons Network.*

The Commons Network is inspired by the practices of free software and free
content projects, where people do things they like to do (such as writing
software or texts) and, by doing so, produce goods that are useful for
others; but also by the approach of wireless community networks where the
participants jointly build a free network, allowing everyone to transfer
data through the free network or to access the Internet through it.
Community networks are interesting because they organize the free sharing of
limited resources that cannot just be copied freely (bandwidth and Internet
access). And some community networks are interesting in that they're
self-organizing and self-healing: whenever nodes (participating computers)
join or leave such a _mesh network_, it reconfigures itself to ensure that
all data still finds the best route through the network.

The idea of the Commons Network (future URL: commonsnetwork.org) is to build
a loose network of people and projects that is based on *commons* (goods
which are jointly used, managed or owned) and that allows the free sharing
and the shared production of goods and resources among everybody who wants
to get involved. Ideally, the network should also become a self-organizing
and self-healing "mesh," where production processes spontaneously adapt to
the needs and wishes of the people involved and where anybody can join or
leave the network without causing disruption.

A handout of my talk on the Commons Network follows; the slides are also
available as a S5 slideshow
<http://www.keimform.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/commonsnetwork-slides.html>.
Comments welcome!

-> Continued at
http://www.keimform.de/2008/09/08/hiddinghausen-talks-2-commons-network/


Best regards
	Christian

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