From the monthly archives: February 2012

P2 Surveys – supported by P2P Foundation

By On February 21, 2012 · 17 Comments · 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 · 7 Comments · 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 · 14 Comments · 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 · 11 Comments · 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 · 10 Comments · 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 · 11 Comments · 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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