Since Goteo aims to develope a social network for free culture microfinancing based on the notion of community profit introducing the possibility of returning money in the form of packets of "training" and educational methodogies, FLOSS code or physical products such as open hardware or open design, we have teamed up with openp2pdesign.org to publish a series of articles looking deeper at open communities business models. We start with an overview of Open Hardware which will be followed by 2 posts on Open Craft and Fablabs. Enjoy! Open Hardware Definitions The current Open Source Hardware Draft Definition is... Read more

"No es cuestión de filantropía o de caridad. Es cuestión de mecenazgo y de comercio." Perry Chen, cofundador de Kickstarter La noción romántica del garaje como nido o caldo de cultivo para ideas y compañías de enorme éxito comercial forma parte del imaginario colectivo gracias a una serie de historias más o menos mitificadas que, a lo largo del siglo XX, dieron un pequeño giro al estándar del sueño americano: Walt Disney, Mattel, Apple Computer, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard y muchas otras firmas empezaron en uno de esos garajes. Y a pesar de lo difícil que pueda resultar exportar ese ideal a otros contextos... Read more

Goteo (CC microcredits) is an ongoing research on creative currencies and p2p-financing systems. Goteo aims to develope a social network for free culture microfinancing based on the notion of community profit introducing the possibility of returning money in the form of packets of "training" and educational methodogies, FLOSS code or physical products (open hardware/open design) involving community development and emancipation. The aim of Microcréditos CC is to establish together with producers, lawyers, economists and fiscal experts a simple, effective and CC-inspired graphical and... Read more