Dear colleagues, Just a short message to go back to the very interesting conversation held on this list a few days ago about Academia.edu and possible alternatives. Mathieu O'Neil and I, from a personal viewpoint and also as members of the editorial board of the Journal of Peer Production, would like to support Rob's proposal to set up a "p2p online social network" for academics as an alternative to academia.edu, and remain available to discuss this further. We believe that this could be a significant advance for the commons, as well as a possible way to channel towards volunteer projects the funding that is indeed starting to become available for open access. We look forward to further discussions. Kind regards, -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France