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'''Join a group of peer so collaborative build a course on "peer production and commons theory". We believe that is necesary to collect, sort, organize and create contents to teach and learn these topics in a better way. Help us to make it possible: a course on p2p topics created in a p2p fashion'''

Peer to Peer is mostly known to technologically-oriented people as P2P, the decentralized (or rather: distributed) format of putting computers together for different kinds of cooperative endeavor, such as filesharing, in particular for the distribution of music or audiovisual material. But this is only a small example of what P2P is: it's in fact a template of human relationships, a "relational dynamic" which is springing up throughout the social fields, more precisely where one finds 'distributed networks'. This dynamic is the one that made possible to develop Internet in the first beginning and enabled the Free Software existence. "Commons-based peer production", as Benkler puts it, is the fundamental base of the emerging forms of value creation and studying them is essential to understand our modern societies.