Collaborative Production
Collaborative Production
Yochai Benkler coined the term 'commons-based peer production' to describe collaborative efforts based on sharing information, such as free and open source software and Wikipedia. He also uses the term 'networked information economy' to describe a "system of production, distribution, and consumption of information goods characterized by decentralized individual action carried out through widely distributed, nonmarket means that do not depend on market strategies."
Note: The word nonmarket needs to be defined. Collaborative Production does not imply lack of marketability within the market system, because real value may be generated in social production, and real value may be exchanged for other consideration. - MJ
Factor e Farm Case
Collaborative Production is the means by which Factor e Farm intends to deploy prototypes rapidly - and to produce boot-strapping financial sustainability. It is a model whereby community members work together in production runs - after cross training its members to basic production skills.
By December 2012, we aim to demonstrate that we can produce $20k/month net bootstrap funding. We aim to produce a single CEB Machine in 1 day with 8 people working in our flexible fabrication workshop, yielding $5k per day. We intend to do 4 such production runs per month to allow ourselves to carry on research and development while enjoying the fruits of our optimized productivity.
Initial Results - Collaborative Production Test Run 1
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151423280111562.583178.66469461561&type=3
Concept
http://www.relationship-economy.com/2011/01/collaborative-production-consumption-or-destruction/