From aa97112f572560b5904520b507286d61c471c61b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Emmett Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:05:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Reframe Michel Bauwens references as part of broader movement Shift from hagiographic tone to matter-of-fact. Frame the P2P Foundation Wiki, commons frameworks, and three modes of production as collective achievements rather than one person's legacy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 --- components/emergence-section.tsx | 2 +- components/hero-section.tsx | 4 +-- components/legacy-section.tsx | 43 ++++++++++++++------------------ components/mycelium-section.tsx | 2 +- 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/components/emergence-section.tsx b/components/emergence-section.tsx index 0976543..a20ed0c 100644 --- a/components/emergence-section.tsx +++ b/components/emergence-section.tsx @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ const CARDS = [ }, { title: "Living Commons", - body: "Michel Bauwens built the P2P Foundation Wiki — 25,000 pages of commons knowledge. That's the seed. Now we grow the forest: knowledge, tools, and infrastructure that belong to everyone. Not static archives but living, growing resources — tended by communities, freely shared across the mycelial web.", + body: "The P2P Foundation Wiki holds 25,000 pages of commons knowledge, built by hundreds of contributors over two decades. That's the seed. Now we grow the forest: knowledge, tools, and infrastructure that belong to everyone. Not static archives but living, growing resources — tended by communities, freely shared across the mycelial web.", }, ] diff --git a/components/hero-section.tsx b/components/hero-section.tsx index a9c7a20..0a0b6e9 100644 --- a/components/hero-section.tsx +++ b/components/hero-section.tsx @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ export function HeroSection() { className="emerge-letter text-sm sm:text-base opacity-40 max-w-xl mx-auto" style={{ animationDelay: "1.5s" }} > - Born from the P2P Foundation. Rooted in the legacy of Michel - Bauwens. Powered by mycelial principles. + Born from the P2P Foundation and the Commons Stack. + Powered by mycelial principles.

{/* Terminal tagline */} diff --git a/components/legacy-section.tsx b/components/legacy-section.tsx index 3326008..d28b511 100644 --- a/components/legacy-section.tsx +++ b/components/legacy-section.tsx @@ -17,22 +17,18 @@ export function LegacySection() {

Every network grows from somewhere. Ours grows from the Commons - Stack and the life’s work of Michel Bauwens. + Stack, the P2P Foundation, and the broader commons movement.

- {/* Michel Bauwens tribute */} + {/* P2P Foundation */}

- The Librarian of the Commons + The P2P Foundation

- For over two decades,{" "} - Michel Bauwens{" "} - (1958–2024) dedicated himself to a monumental task: - documenting the emerging paradigm of peer-to-peer collaboration - and commons-based alternatives. The{" "} + The{" "} P2P Foundation Wiki - {" "} - he created contains over 25,000 pages of carefully curated - knowledge — case studies, theoretical frameworks, policy - proposals, and practical guides that have informed countless - projects worldwide. + + , started by Michel Bauwens (1958–2024) and shaped by + hundreds of contributors, documents the emerging landscape of + peer-to-peer collaboration and commons-based alternatives. Over + 25,000 pages of case studies, theoretical frameworks, policy + proposals, and practical guides — an open knowledge base + that continues to inform projects worldwide.

- Michel wasn’t just a theorist. He was a{" "} - librarian in the deepest sense — someone who - believed that knowledge, freely shared and carefully tended, could - transform society. His frameworks for{" "} + Out of this work came key frameworks:{" "} commons-based peer production, the{" "} partner state, and{" "} cosmo-localism (“design global, manufacture - local”) gave the commons movement its intellectual - foundations. + local”). These ideas didn’t belong to any one person + — they emerged from a network of researchers, practitioners, + and communities building alternatives in the open.

@@ -63,7 +59,7 @@ export function LegacySection() { {/* Three modes */}

- Michel’s Three Modes of Production + Three Modes of Production

@@ -122,8 +118,7 @@ export function LegacySection() { token engineering, augmented bonding curves, and conviction voting, the Commons Stack and its{" "} Trusted Seed community developed regenerative - funding mechanisms for exactly the kind of commons infrastructure - Michel championed. + funding mechanisms for commons infrastructure.

But tools alone aren’t enough. The Commons Stack taught us @@ -169,7 +164,7 @@ export function LegacySection() { {[ { title: "Preserve", - text: "Archive and steward Michel's knowledge commons. The P2P Foundation Wiki, oral histories, theoretical frameworks \u2014 ensuring decades of accumulated wisdom remain living resources, not static monuments.", + text: "Steward the knowledge commons. The P2P Foundation Wiki, oral histories, theoretical frameworks \u2014 ensuring decades of accumulated wisdom remain living resources, not static monuments.", }, { title: "Sustain", @@ -204,7 +199,7 @@ export function LegacySection() { “The more we share, the more we have.”

- — Michel Bauwens + — a commons proverb
diff --git a/components/mycelium-section.tsx b/components/mycelium-section.tsx index dcae7da..f495e45 100644 --- a/components/mycelium-section.tsx +++ b/components/mycelium-section.tsx @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const PRINCIPLES = [ }, { title: "Mutual Aid", - body: "Every node strengthens the network. Every network strengthens each node. Michel Bauwens called this commons-based peer production — contributory, needs-based collaboration as the third mode of production beyond state and market. In a mycelial system, there are no extractors — only participants in a web of reciprocal support.", + body: "Every node strengthens the network. Every network strengthens each node. The P2P Foundation called this commons-based peer production — contributory, needs-based collaboration as the third mode of production beyond state and market. In a mycelial system, there are no extractors — only participants in a web of reciprocal support.", icon: (