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Peer production (also known by the term mass collaboration) is a new way of producing goods and services that relies on self-organizing communities of individuals who come together to produce a shared outcome. In these communities the efforts of a large number of people are coordinated to create meaningful projects. Common examples are Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, and Linux, a computer operating system.

Crowd Sourced products like community cookbooks were an early form of peer production. Gooseberry Patch has used their customer/friend community to create their line of exclusive cookbooks for over 18 years.

External links

• TED: Ideas worth spreading - Yochai Benkler introduces peer production.
• The Emergence of Open Design and Open Manufacturing Michel Bauwens, We Magazine Volume 2
• Quality Management of Peer Production

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