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Just another goal ...

Submitted by Admin on 13. February 2009 - 12:58

Not am employee

Long ago, we brought you all this fire.
Do not imagine we are still chained to that rock.
Now we are everywhere, and independent.
But not alone.

We do not work for you. You do not work for us.
We choose to work together.

We create, and advise, and design, and invent.
Inspire, build, teach.
Repair, research, heal.
We have craft, insight and experience.
We see. We make. With style and grace.
We move along.

We are diverse.
We are labor, but we are also capital.
Not a single class.
We are a web, the thread by which all else is linked together.

We’ve escaped.
Escaped the office, the factory, the regimen, the rat race, the vultures and that goddamned rock.
And all the more, we collaborate.
Independent, but never alone.

Not an employee.

[Update]

30.03.2009: CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery

Why manufacturies are needed

Submitted by Reto Stauss on 13. February 2009 - 9:07

E.F. Schumacher suggested in "Small is beautifull" how to minimize the useless und destructive migration to cities:

  1. Create jobs where people live. The need to move or commut between places of living and working is minimized.
  2. The cost of workplaces must be low to allow the creation of a huge number.
  3. Used production processes have to be simple to avoid specialized knowledge. This is also true for organisation, provisioning of ressources, financing, sales and distribution.
  4. Local available ressources should be used to produce for local markets.

Also after more than 30 years we can take this as manifesto to adress the problems we are facing today.

Public cluster of inspiration

Submitted by Reto Stauss on 10. February 2009 - 15:46

Nice definitions of different modes of publicity on keimform.de. No question about the mode of this site:

Last are the public clusters of inspiration. [...] Their duty is to build empowered egalitarian organized groups of people sharing similar perceptions. They are unrepresentable and not controllable. Their modus of acting is the equal relationship and their form of society is Commonismus.

Innovations of the open source movement

Submitted by Reto Stauss on 2. February 2009 - 22:17

Gundolf S. Freyermuth shows in his article Offene Geheimnisse - Die Ausbildung der Open-Source-Praxis im 20. Jahrhundert in the Open Source Jahrbuch 2007 (German only) how "open source practise is one of the main forces driving the industrial to the digital civilisation".

He describes six innovations of the open source software movement which may be assigned to the production of physical goods:

  1. Gaining (back) the knowledge about technologies monopolized by corporates of the industrial age.
  2. Striving after compatibility and standards. This needs to be adressed to build globally open source goods based on highly available standard components.
  3. Cooperation based on hirarchy free communication via Internet.
  4. Public ownership of intelectual property.
  5. Self organised organisations.
  6. A new understanding of competition and collaboration in order to accelerate und improve creative work and development processes.

You can find all this points explained in more detail in the freely available Open Source Jahrbuch.

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