Links

Projects

• The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force (The IETF is a large organization responsible for Internet technical standards; it has some characteristics that are reminiscent of Open Organizations.)
• open theory - Developing texts like Free Software according to the principle "rough consensus, tasty text!"
• Social Tools, a project to build a network of volunteer-run web servers, hosting online collaboration tools for open organizations.
• http://www.oekonux.org/ whether the principles of the development of Gnu/Linux may serve as a foundation for a new economy, and a new society.
• MAP (Media Arts Projects) - arts/culture/technology projects with inspiring techniques of turning producer/participant around, whose practice has been cross-pollinating with open-org since our first days (related archived analysis)

research/education: attempts at open organising in a university department

• http://arXiv.org - open publishing of research articles in physics, astrophysics, mathematics, etc (starting from atom bomb lab, Lawrence Livermore around 1991-ish)
• http://adjani.astro.uni.torun.pl/cosmo (astronomy at University of Nicolas Copernicus, Torun, Poland - mix of English and Polish)

economy: attempts at documenting or organising participatory economies

• http://wiki.tostaky.net (focussing especially on practical experiments, especially around parecon, mostly in French to start off with, but Polish, English and Italian are likely to be developed too)

Research on social movements

• demos, a project of the European University Institute to study the use of participatory democracy in social movements.