dear Eimhim, can we publish this in our p2p blog, as is or in adapted form ?
if you agree, please send it to Kevin for publication, many many thanks!! this is a great real-life testimony, Michel On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Eimhin David Shortt < [email protected]> wrote: > An anecdotal account on the usefulness of the peer production license from > an experience in the circus/flow/spinning arts. > > My friend Ronan McLoughlin was member 951 of home of poi back in 2003. > Back then the 'jedi' move, the most difficult move that existed, was the > 'behind the back weave'. Today there are over 150,000 members of this > website and, in true networked learning tradition, the art has complexified > accordingly becoming a practical science of geometric shapes, flow > patterns, translations, and patterns while developing a global > supracultural community of practice with festivals, learning events, shops, > jewelery, fashion, and so on. I was a jedi back in 2003, these days, not so > much. Ronan on the other hand has maintained his 'jedi' status, and ten > years later is one of the 'grandfathers' of this collaborative and emergent > art form. > > In 2010 Ronan invented 'contact poi' after a brief encounter with this > potential in a play session with dancer and contact juggler Ed Adams (a.k.a > AnimatEd Adams), it was a simple innovation of the structure of the object, > using rope, a 100mm contact juggling ball, and a juggling club handle. > Because of Ronans 'Jedi' status as a frontline explorer of the > possibilities, and the influence he holds in that community by virtue of > his creative process, 'Contact Poi' became a thing. > > The owner of Play Juggling, a maker and online seller of juggling props, > contacted Ronan to access the prototypes (admittedly simple) and in a > subsequent commication breakdown, went on to mass produce and sell the > model with no benefit accrueing to > Ronan whatsoever. Ronan is lovely and this doesn't bother him much, but it > bothers me. > > We started together in the practice of object manipulation back in > university in Galway in 2003. We have been best of friends since, most > people confuse us as brothers though we are not directly related at all. In > this last 11 years I have watched him develop this artform, along with many > others, and the community, a collaborative community, that built up around > this process. I find it unfair and unjust that a specialised distributor > should absorb the value created by this man, my friend, and artist, for > something that he has created, and popularized by his influence, effort, > and creativity. > > Had I known about the peer production license in 2010 I would have > suggested it to him, but even though I was familiar with the P2P movement, > and with OS licenses such as the Creative Commons license, I did not fully > understand the global context of production, value, and the workings > of capital. Now that I understand this somewhat, the application in this > case is clear. > > Ronan lives outside Timoleague, Clonakilty in West Cork, at the moment he > is renovating the 'top-cottage' and making nut butters, kombucha, and > kefir, while attending a course on food production in a nearby town and > works two days a week at the family speciality food and wine shop The > Lettercolm Kitchen Project in Clon. I wish for Ronan that he had had his > efforts honoured by the application of the Peer Production License as it > fits the kind and heartful person that he is. Instead, others profit by his > efforts, and he continues creating regardless. Making that which others eat > and sustain themselves by. Hopefully he will have more luck with the nut > butters and holy well water kombucha and kefir (his house is beside a holy > well which provides the house with water). > > By writing this I intend to show a few things. First of all, this is a > clear example of a case for the application of the Peer Production > License among the global circus arts community. Secondly, I want to show > our own insularity in the P2P Community, that we do not educate and > disseminate materials in a way that makes the tools we are developing > accessible, by way of understanding, to communities outside of this one. I > point out above that I could not see the reason and use-application of the > license until I had an adequate understanding of the global function of > capital and the predatorial capture of value. > > In pointing this out again I think it important that we step up our > collective efforts this summer to bring people together at FLOSFs > : Free/Libre Open Source Festivals. Where we educate eachother and > celebrate the value and shared values of our respective collaborative > communities. To this end I have begun work with programmer Matthew Hart on > the 'Cake Chart', a simple tool to legibalise resource and role > distribution in any work. Here the focus of course is OS festival creation. > We presented this 'made in three days' mock up at a dance event 'Dance, > the body and activism' as part of an appeal to that community to explore > open participatory budgeting in an effort to overcome the divisive effects > of state funding structures in the arts in Ireland, a process that > commodifies and makes a competition of what should be a creative process. ( > http://www.bazosoft.com/cake_chart/) > > Earlier today, in the Resilient Communities facebook group I cam across > this article on Open Sourcing Festivals: > http://www.pixelache.ac/blog/2014/open-sourcing-festivals/#comment-2324 > And this reminded me of an event I created in Pushkar India, where I > rented a small hotel and ran a Free CoCreative and Participatory festival. > After a short publicisation of the event in Goa at the Indian juggling > convention InJuCo in 2011, I opened the doors of the event and began > cleaning preparing and decorating the venue. Folk asked me (as I hurriedly > lugged, lifted and loaded) "When does it start?". I explained: "This is a > 'Free' 'CoCreative' 'Participatory' Festival, it starts when we start it, > right now I have to prepare the space." > > In ten minutes everyone was up and moving and everything subsequently was > put into place, the venue was decorated, soundsystem set up, workshop wall > built and populated, and from there it began. There were workshops by day, > in theatre, dance, choregraphic techniques, darbooka, macarma jewelery, > belly dance, contact staff, juggling, freestyle rap, acrobatics, we had > camel rides going, free group meals provided in the evenings cooked up by > Khalu Ram the Camel Man, musical performance in the evenings with Berlin's > Ohr Booten followed by group jam sessions and performance. Friendships were > made, people fell in love, later when I moved back to Europe, to Berlin, it > happened that I moved to the same street as the Ohr Booten crew who opened > many doors for me personally in Berlin, I am sure the same happened for > others. My favourite part was the freestyle rap section where a circle of > 16 people, none of whom had ever tried it before, were taken through the > three stages, the Body (beat) Mind (lyrical metre) and Soul (the full flow) > of freestyle rap. We heard voices rap in French, Arabic, Indian, German, > English... This was one among many beautiful experiences. > > It was a very small festival with only 70 to 100 people, alcohol > and 'drug' free, over 5 days, but this was the best thing I had ever > created, experienced, and enjoyed. The aim was to test the premise that > payment makes way for expectation, passive consumption, and that it > diminishes creative potential. The test proved beyond doubt that this was > the case. People loved it, everyone learned, no one made any money off of > anyone else's back, and so everyone participated, learned, and generated > immense cultural value. Many of those friendships are still going out there > in the world. > > Imagine, and then lets act on what can be done! > > > http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License > On Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Stacco Troncoso <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Heya Kev, you gotta walk me through the SYMPA-list thing, I really have >> no idea on how to use it (much less administer it!) >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> thanks kevin, great initiative >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Kevin Flanagan <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA512 >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> There has been much discussion on the PPL (Peer Production License) in >>>> recent months. To support the growing interest I've created a public >>>> discussion list for the PPL. The list can serve both as a place for >>>> those using the license and for those new to the license to discuss >>>> and share use cases and experiences. >>>> >>>> http://lists.p2pfoundation.net/wws/admin/ppl.discuss >>>> >>>> Kevin >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>> >>>> iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTOZmbAAoJECAeSbRqWXA+C/EIAIzRqL18WKxW1G9bzPiU7+8q >>>> IbJ3+Db/08x4d5jinCCjiMvWCyccxpU4Zo6PfvO4oDBXdmf7EktAmqCLXvwA4P3E >>>> xfIRxbToOwP50vVoTNrwW/rNmM7H2NFVAJjx5gxp7LwWKa+gwXdHcI+90CfDkRu4 >>>> l2OU5F/gAL3KwtCXz8NyGcY1A9hhzvC6YV0mnMsn3XrfVGMvD2Kn2NO6M+YvqtUK >>>> Fd7lTC5CtV4q5BM/d25kOeDBQdFSjFrIoH/rNeEZtHxgxzQ22du+/12taoRJoiEW >>>> helQXqJ4uPIdkQAAu9zyXDIRxZKTvlpLu9NB84qXE3iPb4gDJBWnrW+3b1bCArw= >>>> =p5iV >>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no >>> record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* >>> >>> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - >>> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >>> >>> <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: >>> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >>> >>> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> - Stacco Troncoso <http://about.me/staccotroncoso> >> >> > > -- > http://about.me/eimhin > -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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