"The thrill of private ownership is the fruit of an underground common."

— Anna Tsing, "The Mushroom at the End of the World" @wd-Q60786968

#PropertyIsTheft #Commons #quote

New #wikipedia page, "The Goose and the Common"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_and_the_Common

"The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back "

Feedback/edits welcome

#commons #poem #enclosure

An interesting paper about an agent-based model of an economy based on commons. They added quite some complexity including agents with various character traits that form "cultures" and experimented with variations of inclusion, exclusion, and shared inventories.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43253-023-00110-0

Similar to my much simpler experiments in https://transform-social.org/en/texts/tools/ inclusion and shared inventories increase the fulfillment of needs. Without shared resources, those agents with more egoist character traits run into economic issues.

Quote from the paper: "Consequently, in the long run, traditionalist’s wellbeing
decreases because their level of cooperation is too low to develop successfully."

#AgentBasedModels #commons #commonism

Just stumbled into a cache of German #cargobike goodness 🚲 👀

- https://dein-lastenrad.de [DE/EN] wiki for setting up a cargobike #commons 🤝
- https://commonsbooking.org/ [DE] #wordpress plugin for coordinating the use of cargobikes (or other shared stuff) 🤖
- https://www.werkstatt-lastenrad.de [DE] wiki with ~40 different cargobike/trailer build guides 🔧

Credit: @fleg

Team #CommonsBooking stellt neue Funktionen in der #commons #sharing #software vor

#FFL24 #freiesLastenrad

#Ostrom and Crawford started the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, with its 3 levels and 7 rule categories.

Has anyone on fedi worked with it?

Concrete question: which category do conflict resolution processes best fit in? (I'm guessing Aggregation, but could be Boundary)

#commons #IAD

Here's my #introduction

I'm Nathalie, interested in sociocracy, commons and open-source with an academic background in (biochemical) engineering. I love working with self-organised groups towards social change.

foodsharing.de was my main project over the last years, now I'm working with karrot.word. Looking into group governance I'm very into sociocracy and Sociocracy for All being my home for that!

#sociocracy #opensource #commons #foodsharing #foodsaving #karrot #sociocracyforall

Reminded again today that I'll never join a project doesn't have a robust way to expel people that need to go, or to reach a decision if consensus can't be found.

#idealism #anarchy #commons #pragmatism #notetoself

It's #WorldCommonsWeek!
The International Association for the Study of the #Commons is hosting events all week, from all around the world 🌏 🌍 🌎.
See the IASC webpage for details.
https://wcw2022.iasc-commons.org/

Some elements of space, like dark skies for astronomical observations, have aspects of a #commons and are prone to overuse.
In this case, a satellite is now one of the brightest objects in the sky and compromising the dark skies and radio frequencies used in astronomy.
Can #SpaceCommons be governed sustainably?
https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau2211/

Does anyone know of research about cake fines? 🍰

Cake fines are a light-hearted social sanction groups use for minor violations, such as being late. The person then needs to make/buy a cake and bring it the next day.

I experienced it while at a research lab. Seems to be popular in the british emergency services too per https://cakeoffencesact.uk/

"Graduated sanctions" is 'Ostrom's 5th principle', but seems to get little attention.

#cakeFine #sanctions #commons