P2P Foundation:AboutFoundation for P2P AlernativesF4P2PA_a5e1d3ba-1bc1-4fb7-82cf-dbae262ddf0bThe P2P Foundation is a decentralized organization. In order to foster its growth, however, it has been necessary to create some centralized and managed structures. These are documented here. The P2P Foundation is a registered institute founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It's local registered name is: Stichting Peer to Peer Alternatives, dossier nr: 34264847.Michel BauwensThere are no formal operational roles, but Founder Michel Bauwens produces most of the content creation and takes care of community management.Brice Le BlevennecCo-FounderJames BurkeCo-Founder_16b04648-876c-11e2-8e0b-16a9fe1f21e9To be a meeting place for those who can broadly agree with [our] guiding ideas, principles and propositions_16b04832-876c-11e2-8e0b-16a9fe1f21e9Peer-to-Peer Technology... peer-to-peer based technology reflects and holds the potentials for a change of consciousness towards individual and networked participation, and in turn strengthens itDistributed Networks... the "distributed network" format, expressed in the specific manner of peer to peer relations, is a new form of organizing and subjectivity, and an alternative for many systems within the current socio-econominic and cultural-political order, which though it does not offer solutions per se, points the way to a variety of dialogical and self-organizing formats, i.e. it represents different processes for arriving at such solutions; it ushers in a era of ‘nonrepresentational democracy’, where an increasing number of people are able to manage their social and productive life through the use of a variety of autonomous and interdependent networks and peer circles; that global governance, and the global market will be, and will have to be, more influenced by modes of governance involving multistakeholdershipAutonomy InterdependenceSelf-OrganizationNonrepresentational DemocracyMultistakeholdershipInformation Commons... it creates a new public domain, an information commons, which should be protected and extended, especially in the domain of common knowledge creation; and that this domain, where the cost of reproducing knowledge is near zero, requires fundamental changes in the intellectual property regime, as reflected by new forms such as the free software movement; that universal common property regimes, i.e. modes of peer property, such as the General Public Licese and the Creative Commons licenses should be promoted and extendedKnowledgeGeneral Public License... the principles developed by the free software movement, in particular the General Public License, and the general principles behind the open source and open access movements, provides for models that could be used in other areas of social and productive lifeOpen Source Open AccessCooperative Social Order... it reconnects with the older traditions and attempts for a more cooperative social order, but this time obviates the need for authoritarianism and centralization; it has the potential of showing that the new more egalitarian digital culture, is connected to the older traditions of cooperation of the workers and peasants, and to the search for an engaged and meaningful life as expressed in one’s work, which becomes an expression of individual and collective creativity, rather than as a salaried means of survivalEgalitarian Digital CultureCollective CreativityRenewal... it offers youth a vision of renewal and hope, to create a world that is more in tune with their values; that it creates a new language and discourse in tune with the new historical phase of ‘cognitive capitalism’; P2P is a language which every ‘digital youngster’ can understand. However, 'peer to peer theory' addresses itself not just to the network-enabled and to knowledge workers, but to the whole of civil society (the 'multitudes'), and to whoever agrees that the core of decision-making should be located in civil society, and not in the market or in the state, and that the latters should be the servants of civil societyHopeCognitive CapitalismSubjectivity... it combines subjectivity (new values), intersubjectivity (new relations), objectivity (an enabling technology) and interobjectivity (new forms of organization) that mutually strengthen each other in a positive feedback loop, and it is clearly on the offensive and growing, but lacking ‘political self-consciousness’. It is this form of awareness that the P2P Foundation wants to promote.IntersubjectivityObjectivityInterobjectivityFeedbackP2P Ethos[Develop] a common initiative for the P2P ethos_16b048dc-876c-11e2-8e0b-16a9fe1f21e9P2P currently exists in discrete separate movements and projects but these different movements are often unaware of the common P2P ethos that binds them... The Foundation would be a matrix or womb which would inspire the creation and linking of other nodes active in the P2P field, organized around topics and common interests, locality, and any form of identity and organization which makes sense for the people involved The zero node website, i.e. the site of the P2P Foundation, would have a website with directories, an electronic newsletter and blog, and a magazine. It aims to be one of the places where people can interconnect and strengthen each other, and discuss topics of common interest.InformationBring information together_16b04986-876c-11e2-8e0b-16a9fe1f21e91ConnectionConnect people and mutually informs them_16b04a44-876c-11e2-8e0b-16a9fe1f21e92InsightStrive for integrative insights coming from the many subfields_16b04ae4-876c-11e2-8e0b-16a9fe1f21e93EventsOrganize events for reflection and action_16b04b8e-876c-11e2-8e0b-16a9fe1f21e94EducationEducate people about critical and creative tools for world-making_16b04c9c-876c-11e2-8e0b-16a9fe1f21e952005-11-292013-03-07http://p2pfoundation.net/About_The_FoundationOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net