P2 Surveys – supported by P2P Foundation

By On February 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In diybio, Ecosystem, Hackers, hackerspace, network, open source, Participate, research, survey, Uncategorized

In previous blog entry I introduced Peer Production/Community survey domain p4.ossoil.com. While I was finalizing the content in the pages, I also contacted Michel Bauwens from P2P Foundation and asked “perhaps some hd space in some server could be the support from Foundation?” Michel [...]

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Surveys for DIY communities

By On February 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In biohacker, community, diybio, Ecosystem, hackerspace, open source, Participate, research, survey, Uncategorized

Ever wanted to know what kind of cool stuff biohackers do? How about what’s the attitude towards external funding in different kind of DIY communities? Or what’s the most preferred way to handle space rent?

Now that’s possible to find out. For the past 3-4 years I’ve been studying (and participating) hackerspaces; motivations to participate [...]

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P2 Generation Survey Site

By On February 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In community, diybio, Ecosystem, Hackers, hackerspace, Hacktivism, network, open source, Participate, research, survey

The past ‘hackerspace’ surveys 2010 and 2011 have created a great data base for longitudinal study. Now that my funding for PhD survey is about to finish (after all it was just for one year), I’m considering to put my research efforts to this survey study. [...]

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Developing Peer to Peer Community Surveys

By On February 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In biohacker, community, diybio, Ecosystem, Hackers, hackerspace, network, open source, Participate, research

For some time now I have been pushing an idea of a new hacker generation called ‘Peer Production’. It is a continuum to hacker generations identified by other scholars. Somewhat good presentation of the generations can be found from my previous blog entry “Extrovert Hacker Generations“.

Peer Production Generation research

As part [...]

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Spare parts – originals or pirated?

By On February 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In 3D, community, Ecosystem, Manufacturing

Different device vendors, tool manufacturers and other sectors of industry are facing same situation in which music and movie industry have failed. Music and movie industry are in hopeless battle with the masses mostly because they have failed to adapt to market needs. They could have chosen to create easy ways to buy music and [...]

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Fabbing Industry – laying the foundation

By On February 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In 3D, community, Ecosystem, network, open source

Fabbing Foudation – sounds like fun and something big. Fun like hacking, ‘fabbing’, doing stuff, creating something. Big like Mozilla and Linux. Concerning my ideas, I’m not sure about the latter. Or at least being huge/big is not the primary goal. Instead I want to see a vivid, innovative, open, transparent and co-operative open source [...]

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Transparency and local meetups

By On January 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In common, community, dashboard, Ecosystem, finland, Hackers, network, Open Coral, open source, Understand

Members of Open Coral project have been ‘divided’ to three teams: Core Developers, Concept Designers and UX Team. Similar team formation is common in open source projects. Of course the amount and names of teams vary from case to case. In Open Coral project we try to be as open [...]

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Open Coral Teams

By On January 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In community, dashboard, MeeGo, meego network finland, network, Open Coral, open source, Participate

We have lured in around 8 to 10 people to participate in development. We have graphics designers, UX specialists, concept designers and a few code developers. Nevertheless this project does not look like a normal open source project. In normal case, code developers are the majority if testers are not included. Of course one must [...]

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Open Coral Daemon

By On January 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In community, dashboard, Ecosystem, Open Coral, open source, research

Open Coral Daemon (OCD) is intended to handle information retrieval from multiple sources (URLs) asynchronously. In the future it will most likely have a lot of other tasks as well, but let’s start with one. Information streams will be different formats such as HTML, JSON, RSS, ATOM to mention a [...]

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Open Coral – users and projects

By On January 1, 2012 · 1 Comment · In dashboard, Ecosystem, network, Open Coral, Qt, research

Here’s some initial ideas for the database structure regarding several tables/objects such as user, projects, blog and mailing list messages. Note that this is just first iteration and most likely will contain oddities and fails (in multiple levels). Let it be just a starting point for future ideas. Below is a database defined with a [...]

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