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Hello and welcome @pierro78,

Can you introduce yourself a little.

Well now it seems I am outnumbered here not speaking French :)

@claudesaintjarre and @nicolasstampf you might also be interested in @pierro78 's wiki own French language wiki http://wiki.gentilsvirus.org/

Hello. I live near Montréal. I do much volunteer work. I am a social worker
wit a masters degree but I did not work much in this field. I have alco been a
natural foods cook. I am studying a philosophy of joy, which originates from
here. I studien a lot the work of Buckminster Fuller. I am a futurist and a
presentist! I have one adult kid.
I read Michel Bauwens book, the book of Bollier, I would like to do a
“Commons breakfast”.
good day to you!
claude

Hello @nicolasstampf you can use this for checking links in any webpage for example - https://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fp2pfoundation.net%2FCategory%3AFacilitation&hide_type=all&depth=&check=Check

Hi I would just like to welcome the new members of the group and invite you to say a few words about yourself and the aspects of P2P and the commons that are of interest to you and if there are particular sections of the wiki of interest.

Hi everyone,

I'm Raph, a french-american by passport and definitely french by accent and political ideology. I recently finished studying international relations and I just got a job in Washington, DC. I'll be working for Build A Movement, an organization training pro-democracy activists to nonviolent methods. I'm also in the process of launching Mix Eat Up, a meal-sharing platform (which I am setting up as a truly cooperative platform, unlike Airbnb and others). I got into the open and transition movements by first learning about open government during my studies and, at the same time, by looking for ways to reduce my environmental footprint.

I sought to join the P2P Foundation after exploring the possibility of starting my own wiki to index and describe all the practical initiatives around the world that would fall under the label 'post-capitalism'. The idea was 1. to provide the resources for individuals who are looking for concrete ways to transition and 2. to help transition entrepreneurs find like-minded projects to cooperate with. I am convinced that a wiki for all post-capitalist projects and ideas could help consolidate the transition movement and I thought Commons Transitions could be this go-to website.

Today, it seems to me that CT is primarily designed for thinkers and policy-makers. Articles are very long and full of political jargon. Clearly, this is very important to influence policy-making. But I believe CT could fulfill a second, complementary mission: help people change the way their live their everyday lives by exposing them to all the post-capitalist initiatives out there.

For example, someone who needs to get furnitures and looks for alternatives to capitalist corporations would be directed to open design platforms like opendesk.cc. Someone who wants to build an eco-friendly house could look on the wiki for organizations which share designs, construction methods, etc. And people who are thinking of starting a particular project could find out about other people elsewhere working on similar issues, and join forces with them instead of setting up their own initiative.

This, in a nutshell, is the project I'd like to work on at CT (though on the long-run I'd be interested in working on other things).

Looking forward to working with you all!

Hi all,

I am french also ...
Thanks all for sharing all this interesting info ! :)

As for myself we are building a wiki about or around democracy (which I could define as p2p political governance of a society and its institutions) , you can find some info on my user page : http://p2pfoundation.net/User:Pierro78
(I ve started to be formally interested in the question "how do we better get together to build a better world ?" as you can also see on my user page so it s nice to read about work you guys are doing around the subject :) )

Welcome @pierro78

I'm Danyl Strype, a co-founder of the Aotearoa sections of Indymedia and CreativeCommons. For more than a decade now, I've maintained a blog and wiki at Disintermedia.net.nz (currently hosted by CoActivate.org), which focuses mainly on free code software, free culture, open hardware, and tech rights issues, but also aligned movements like permaculture and transition, and how all these movements share some commons-based ideas and practices about organizing, producing, and sharing social goods, challenging polluters and privatizers of the commons and so on. I'm gradually porting Disintermedia pages that seem sympatico with the P2PF mission into its wiki, and more recently creating new pages on the P2PF wiki instead of mine.

I haven't made much time to be active in this group, because Loomio 1.0 doesn't run very well on my very old laptop. So instead I've been commenting in the talk pages on the wiki itself, a la Wikipedia practice. But now I have a more powerful laptop, and access to the (hopefully) more efficient Loomio 2.0 beta, I intend to start using Loomio more often. For projects I'm more actively involved in, I might also make sure I'm getting email notifications filtered to a dedicated folder.

@asimong and I exchanged some ideas on my talk recently about formatting conventions on the P2PF wiki. Perhaps these are the sorts of things we could discuss here and see what consensus exists?

One other thing, I'd like to more formally join the P2PF as a member, and either wind up Disintermedia completely, or fold into the P2PF as an R&D organ with a special focus on software and other technological expressions of P2P/ commons. I've requested to join the parent group of this subgroup, but my membership is still pending. Is there a formal membership process I need to apply to, and if so, how do I do that?

No one answered you @Danyl Strype 😕 AFAIK there is no existing 'membership' for P2PF contributors -- I'm not a 'member' of anything formally. Just a contributor. If, however, we were to get together a proposal for some kind of 'guild of P2P contributors' that might be worth floating -- what do you think?