Might there also be the possibility of using existing infrastructure in some way, like a Diaspora node or Crabgrass? On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 12:09 +0100, Francesca Musiani wrote:

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,

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