====== Sat.16:00 LAG. Freedom as a common-pool resource. Alpha 1 ======
**Organised by: petros**

//First attempt to describe freedom (both freedom-to and freedom-from) using the language of the commons. Brief talk + collaborative thinking.//

The goal of this attempt is change the perception of freedom. The most popular view considers freedom as a "rare", rivalrous good, which we have to compete for. 
If we able to speak about freedom in the language of the commons, we may see the "freedom-from" as a common-pool resource, that we can sustain and expand in collaboration, while the "freedom-to" as the fringe units stream that we can share according to the community-formulated regime.

Warning! The concept presented here is absolutely scandalous from the scholar's point of view. The only reason I am trying to elaborate this methodological abomination is the fact, that it can potentially provide an easy and efficient „cognitive pry bar” to open – and change – popular thinking about freedom. It is still to be determined, whether the end justifies the mean here.

  - Freedom: negative and positive
  - Relationship between them.
  - Libertarian concept of freedom.
  - Critique of the above.
  - Freedom as a common pool resource
  - Negative freedom as a core resource
  - Positive freedom as a stream of fringe units
  - How does it change our mindset?
  - The critique of the concept.

The newest version (article): http://freelab2014.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/the-freedom-commons-alpha-2/

Recommended readings:
  * http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_as_a_New_Paradigm_for_Governance,_Economics_and_Policy
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-pool_resource
  * https://titanpad.com/JUBslJxy08 the working pad for this topic