The consolidation of open and distributed manufacturing as a real alternative, though presently operating at the margins of the economy Examples: Arduino, 100Kgarages, Open Source Ecology, eCars, the Maker movement Key individuals: Umair Haque, Marjory Kelly’s Corporation 20/20, Chris Cook’s Open Capital Below, I’m focusing on trends in business and politics. WHAT DID I FORGET?

This mindmap could certainly be more beautifully designed and presented, but I can’t refrain from already sharing, as it presents such a condensation of the 3 years of research we’ve undertaken at the P2P Foundation. Ben and the CCAlps Salon invited me to speak on Open Everything in Vienna on 11 September at 19:30 in the Museumsquarter. A special thanks to Ben Dagan of Creative Commons Austria , who prodded me to undertake this visualization effort, and added some extra visual elements already.

Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let them out until they have framed a new, massively-distributed financial system, founded on sound, open, peer-to-peer principles, from the start. Launch a new financial medium that is as open, scale-free, universally accessible, self-improving, and non-proprietary as the Internet, and leave the 13th century behind.” - George Dyson* How to best transcend the current economic mess? And don’t call it a bank.

Mellis, co-founder of the Arduino open source hardware circuit boards, wrote the following in 2008 , but it is still of interest. David Mellis: “Open-source hardware requires money. This fundamentally distinguishes the nature of its participants from those of open-source software. David A. In open-source software, the fundamental contributor is the developer, many of whom collaborate in order to create a single software application.

This is a great explanation of the cooperation logic behind Greenxchange, an initiative by Nike, BestBuy and the Creative Commons, to create collaborative open innovation pools for renewable energy research. ...Tags: Tags: Open Design P2P Energy Vide

Open models are now famous for being adopted in many fields outside software development, and we can see this as a proof of their importance and a clear sign of their success. One of the most interesting fields where we witness the adoption of Open models is the Design one, where we can find cases of open web design ( OpenDesigns , Open Source Web Design , Open Web Design ), open product design ( Openmoko , VIA OpenBook , Bug Labs , Zoybar ), open meta-design processes , and even open architectural design . Even if slowly, an usually competitive and ego-driven professional community like the design one is starting to realize what are the potentials for the collaboration and sharing of Open Design initiatives .

Detailed discussion by Eric Hunting : “The ideal situation for P2P architecture is where you can produce structures of small to large scale using intuitively simple modular systems with components on a human scale that are easy for the solitary individual to manipulate and which encode aspects of safety and structural engineering into their interface standards in the same way that the sub-components in a personal computer encode lower levels of engineering into them so that assembly and design higher up the food chain doesn’t have to think much about them. Alas, he was also

With the help of the Prezi staff (thanks to lily fischer and zoltan especially), I am happy to be able to present my first presentation on “Open Everything” for the TEDx Brussels event at the European Parliament: ...Tags: Tags: Link recommendation

First of all for the Oekonux community itself (really an interlocking of several inter-related networks, one of them being the P2P Foundation). Oekonux has also definitely outgrown its historical basis in the free software community, and has now fully embraced the full gamut of peer production, including the recent but very clear move towards peer production in the physical sphere, under the form of open design and open hardware. The 4th Oekonux Conference is over and it was not just a terribly interesting one (not a single lecture I attended was wasted time, and people were raving about the one’s I missed), but also, I believe, a historical milestone of sorts.

It is because of the hyperproductivity of open and free input, participatory production processes, and universally available output in the form of the commons, that, just as in the previous two meta transitions, sections of the former ruling class are changing into netarchical capitalists, and investing into new types of open business models, ‘enabling and empowering sharing’, or associating with commons-based peer production. It also signifies that while we work on the autonomy and social reproduction of sharing and commons-based communities, we need to critically ally ourselves,