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1. Collaborative Futures
A free collaborative book about the future of free collaboration @ Transmediale 2010
NYC Book Launch / Upgrade NY @Eyebeam / March 4th 2010

2. Introduction

3. Transmediale 2010: Futurity Now!

4. Play the video

5. The authors
✤ Adam Hyde - Floss Manuals, artist
✤ Mike Linksvayer - VP Creative Commons
✤ Marta Peirano - Copyfight, journalist
✤ Alan Toner - Steal This Film, researcher
✤ Michael Mandiberg - Eyebeam, artist
✤ Mushon Zer-Aviv - Eyebeam, designer
✤ Aleksander Erkalovic (programmer) - Floss Manuals

6. What Are Book Sprints?

7. ...but this book is not procedural
"Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act."
Tom Clancy

8. How This Book Is Written

9. 5 Samples

10. Sample 1:
Open Relationships

11. Sample 1:
Open Relationships
✤ Like romantic relationships, open collaborations are based on mutual
trust

12. Sample 1:
Open Relationships
✤ Like romantic relationships, open collaborations are based on mutual
trust
✤ In an open relationship a different social pact governs the
relationship.

13. Sample 1:
Open Relationships
✤ Like romantic relationships, open collaborations are based on mutual
trust
✤ In an open relationship a different social pact governs the
relationship.
✤ Make sure you cover the basics: coordination, transparency,
attribution, autonomy, generosity, respect and freedom of movement.

14. Sample 2: Anonymous /
Problematizing Attribution

15. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step

16. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step
✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration

17. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step
✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration
✤ "This is who I am. This is what I did."

18. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step
✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration
✤ "This is who I am. This is what I did."
✤ identity + social objects = direct attribution, one to many

19. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step
✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration
✤ "This is who I am. This is what I did."
✤ identity + social objects = direct attribution, one to many
✤ social objects + identities = indirect attribution, many to many

20. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step

21. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step
✤ Adding a layer of coordination:

22. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step
✤ Adding a layer of coordination:
✤ "use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets"

23. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step
✤ Adding a layer of coordination:
✤ "use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets"
✤ social objects + coordination = new (collaborative) social object

24. Sample 3:
Sharing is the First Step
✤ Adding a layer of coordination:
✤ "use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets"
✤ social objects + coordination = new (collaborative) social object
✤ “Edits” (Wikis) or “commits” (open source) loose their individual
meaning outside the collaborative context

25. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts

26. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:

27. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:
✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.

28. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:
✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.
✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation:

29. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:
✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.
✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation:
✤ Wikis and version control systems: contrib+user+time

30. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:
✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.
✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation:
✤ Wikis and version control systems: contrib+user+time
✤ “diff”

31. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:
✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.
✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation:
✤ Wikis and version control systems: contrib+user+time
✤ “diff”
✤ Lower the friction but does not eliminate it

32. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts

33. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Social Contracts and Mediation:

34. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Social Contracts and Mediation:
✤ First Wikipedia edit determines the tone of the article - leadership

35. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Social Contracts and Mediation:
✤ First Wikipedia edit determines the tone of the article - leadership
✤ Social contract - collaborative goal:
to make the article more accurate and factual

36. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Social Contracts and Mediation:
✤ First Wikipedia edit determines the tone of the article - leadership
✤ Social contract - collaborative goal:
to make the article more accurate and factual
✤ “If you're going against what the majority of people perceive to be
reality, you're the one who's crazy”
http://tiny.booki.cc/?wikiality

37. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts

38. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Wikiality:

39. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Wikiality:
✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked)

40. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Wikiality:
✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked)
✤ Wikipedia banned stephencolbert - an unverified celebrity name

41. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Wikiality:
✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked)
✤ Wikipedia banned stephencolbert - an unverified celebrity name
✤ Vandalism?

42. Sample 4:
Coordination & Contexts
✤ Wikiality:
✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked)
✤ Wikipedia banned stephencolbert - an unverified celebrity name
✤ Vandalism?
✤ Or just a collaboration under a different social contract?

43. Sample 5:
On Intentional collaboration

44. Sample 5:
On Intentional collaboration
✤ www.thru-you.com

45. Sample 5:
On Intentional collaboration
✤ www.thru-you.com
✤ Is intention essential to collaboration?

46. Sample 5:
On Intentional collaboration
✤ www.thru-you.com
✤ Is intention essential to collaboration?
✤ What about Google Pagerank algorithm?

47. Sample 5:
On Intentional collaboration
✤ www.thru-you.com
✤ Is intention essential to collaboration?
✤ What about Google Pagerank algorithm?
✤ Intention of action vs. intention of context

48. Sample 5:
On Intentional collaboration
✤ www.thru-you.com
✤ Is intention essential to collaboration?
✤ What about Google Pagerank algorithm?
✤ Intention of action vs. intention of context
✤ Shared goals

49. Sample 6:
Collaborationism

50. Sample 6:
Collaborationism
✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”

51. Sample 6:
Collaborationism
✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”
✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)

52. Sample 6:
Collaborationism
✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”
✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)
✤ Context and conflict

53. Sample 6:
Collaborationism
✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”
✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)
✤ Context and conflict
✤ The nonhuman quality of networks (The Exploit - Galloway/Thacker)

54. Sample 6:
Collaborationism
✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”
✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)
✤ Context and conflict
✤ The nonhuman quality of networks (The Exploit - Galloway/Thacker)
✤ Tension between individual identities and group identities

55. Sample 6:
Collaborationism
✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”
✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)
✤ Context and conflict
✤ The nonhuman quality of networks (The Exploit - Galloway/Thacker)
✤ Tension between individual identities and group identities
✤ ‘Better a complex identity than an identity complex’ (The Digital
Given - Ippolito/Lovink/Rossiter)

56. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End

57. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ ...jump back to the world of flesh meetings, slow readings and the
realities of unpokeability by committing ritual suicide. Online:

58. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ ...jump back to the world of flesh meetings, slow readings and the
realities of unpokeability by committing ritual suicide. Online:
✤ "As the Seppuku restores samurai's honor as a warrior, in the same way,
Seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body...”
Seppukoo.com

59. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ ...jump back to the world of flesh meetings, slow readings and the
realities of unpokeability by committing ritual suicide. Online:
✤ "As the Seppuku restores samurai's honor as a warrior, in the same way,
Seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body...”
Seppukoo.com
✤ "This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking
profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

60. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End

61. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ Ceased and Deceased

62. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ Ceased and Deceased
✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting
other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without
permission.”

63. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ Ceased and Deceased
✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting
other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without
permission.”
✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?

64. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ Ceased and Deceased
✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting
other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without
permission.”
✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?
✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can
the same be said about our owned life?

65. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ Ceased and Deceased
✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting
other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without
permission.”
✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?
✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can
the same be said about our owned life?
✤ “A life owned by a dot.com company is not worth living...”

66. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ Ceased and Deceased
✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting
other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without
permission.”
✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?
✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can
the same be said about our owned life?
✤ “A life owned by a dot.com company is not worth living...”
✤ “The ritual itself is essential, as it stands as a gesture of independence from the platform,
the community and the commercial interests...”

67. Sample 6:
Death Is Not The End
✤ Ceased and Deceased
✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting
other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without
permission.”
✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?
✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can
the same be said about our owned life?
✤ “A life owned by a dot.com company is not worth living...”
✤ “The ritual itself is essential, as it stands as a gesture of independence from the platform,
the community and the commercial interests...”
✤ Assisted suicide & the right to leave.

68. Epilogue

69. Knock Knock

70. Knock Knock
✤ The anonymous contributor

71. Knock Knock
✤ The anonymous contributor
✤ “Where do I sign up?”

72. Knock Knock
✤ The anonymous contributor
✤ “Where do I sign up?”
✤ We were not in stealth mode, we were online!

73. Knock Knock
✤ The anonymous contributor
✤ “Where do I sign up?”
✤ We were not in stealth mode, we were online!
✤ No social or technical mechanism for managing external contribution

74. Are we interested?

75. Are we interested?
✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?

76. Are we interested?
✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?
✤ Do we ignore and say “we”?

77. Are we interested?
✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?
✤ Do we ignore and say “we”?
✤ Do we quote ourselves?

78. Are we interested?
✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?
✤ Do we ignore and say “we”?
✤ Do we quote ourselves?
✤ Can we quote what’s never been written or even said?

79. Are we interested?
✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?
✤ Do we ignore and say “we”?
✤ Do we quote ourselves?
✤ Can we quote what’s never been written or even said?
✤ Oops... complex identity/identity complex?

80. Things We Did Not Cover
Crowdsourcing & Mechanical Turk / Internal collaboration in for-
profit businesses / Piracy / Relative maintenance efforts of
collaborative and free / culture projects / Interns / FLOSS zealotry
and License fascism and Free Culture as an atheistic faith / Free
Culture posturing, and not walking / the talk / Open Source and
design / Scaling collaborations / Failure (it was not an option) / The
cost of failure / Tolerance of errors / The pain of confronting
ideologies / How to collaborate with people you don't agree with /
So much more...

81. Get The Book
✤ Read it online (html, epub, pdf):
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CollaborativeFutures/
✤ Print it yourself (POD - Print On Demand)
✤ Fix the typos:
http://booki.cc/collaborativefutures/edit/
✤ Buy the “dead tree version” NOW!
✤ Questions?