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=== Weekly Calls / Notes ===
Regular topics:
- Upcoming community call topics - reach out to interesting people
Parking Lost / Lot?
17 September "OKFN is the mechanism whereyby CC and it's vision is acheived"
Progress
Priorities
- Confirm process for updating community picks in the future (use community call to do this?)
- Homepage content (homepage vs info)
- Update (and make pretty) -> Supporters page (2 pages -
Adwords intern- MOOCMaker lab report
email to workshop people about mission process DONE
Problems
Process
Ideas
27 August
Progress
- School of Ed Report done
- Blog post done
- Meeting with OKFN Open Ed team
Priorities
- MOOC Maker report (steve has checked - do you have time/inclination? - No time really ;-(
- OKFN?
- More blog posts - Make a list of future topics with names
- Discuss on community call on Thursday
- CC Global
- More reports - Come up with a schedule / topic list
- Mr Analytics - working on MOU
Problems
Process
- OKCON booking / visa crap
- OKCon meetings?
Ideas
20 August
- Progress
- Blog post about home page - in draft, waiting for Erika to do a few last tweaks
- Started working with Sam on ideas for OpenGLAM / School of Data
- Unconference blog post - why not on p2pu.org?
- Priorities
- School of Ed and MOOCmaker reports (worked with Erika yesterday during office hour)
- OpenGLAM / School of Data
- Schedule for more reports
- Social Media intern - want to speak with Jane
Marcelo
P2PU Strategy
13 August
Progress
Reimbursements almost done- Blog in draft
TEDxNorway - offer to cover travel & Accom -No, thank you!
Priorities
Community call report back- Marcelo - dirk goes away this Monday
OKFN / School of Data Humanities ideas- London meetup planning
Process
- Can we change this meeting time? Done
Problems
6 August (quick post-Boston check in)
- Post-Boston blog post - next week
- Reimbursements this week - all to be added to folder, to be handed to Ryan
- Marcelo - BK to call next week, need to think about working process/point of contact (communty call topic)
- MOOC report
23 July
Priorities:
- Boston logistics (http://pad.p2pu.org/p/boston2013
- Separate mails to house people -
- where they'll be, how to get there.
- 31 August - Staff Meeting - 5 people (+Delia)
- 10am (Optional breakfast) Area 4 - http://www.areafour.com/coffee-bakery/
- 11:00am Media Lab - Room 493 (unless we get bumped)
- 11:00 - 11:30 - Introduction / planning for the day
- 11:30 - 12:30 Group feedback
- 12:30 - 4:30 Individual feedback
- 60 Bekka
- 60 Vanessa
- 60 Dirk
- 60 Erika (Dirk)
- 4:30 - Closing
- Aug 1st/2nd - Strategy Workshop - 12 people
- Room 240
- Lunch at Sloan Business School (walk from Media Lab)
- Aug 1 - Dinner?
- Aug 2 - Baseball
- Baseball details
- WE HAVE NO MONEY so don't ask for any
- Dinner 31st - order in to Media Lab (Taiwanese restaurant)
- Boston Agenda
- Is there one?
- Plan would be good to have (post-Berlin feedback)
- Adwords intern - waited to share so as not to drown out SOO - tomorrow (with newsletter)
- June reimbursement
- Send it to Ryan (Philipp will confirm)
Process
- Next week's meeting - will be en route to airport - moved to Office Hour monday
16 July
Progress
- Boston:
- Boston accommodation - 2 apartments booked, 2 partners coming
- P to organise key handover with hosts (following Bekka's detailed instructions)
- Boston budget - need to look (we looked, we sighed with relief)
- HP Grant submitted
Priorities
Process:
- Staff/admin: frustrations with Chris.
- Project list incomplete
25 June
Progress
Priorities
Update workshop participants on reimbursement process- HP Grant stuff for Karen F
Boston accomodation- Boston everything else (sorry!)
Process
Problems
- Org issue: conversations happening in Discourse when they should be on the community call -
18 June
Progress
- Draft data policy - next steps http://pad.p2pu.org/p/datapolicy
- Forward to Delia - ask her if Karl would be a good person to ask about this.
- MOOC report draft - still v rough but happy to share
- Report page done - and promoted - awesome!!!
Priorities
- Boston - any word on accommodation?
- If not, should start book
- Discourse - P mentioned on community call that wanted to talk about invitation (Send out the invitation to the community)
- Mail from Joao re: P2PU UX - loop him in on Dirk's front page discussions on discourse/calls
- Finish the MOOC report
- S.A.M renewal in pipeline
- BK travel
- Newsletter
- MAiling list management - show more addresses more prominently (make sign-up possible)
- Find out mailing list costs - what's the right longer-term solution?
- Do a mailing list review - options, costs, scenarios
- Joao re: template
Problems
Process
- Performance review Wed 26th June (we're doing this at the face to face meeting)
- Jonas Oberg offered me a job (hot smoldering sticks poked into peoples' faces)
Ideas
11 June
Progress
Priorities
- The blog (again)
- Invitation to Discourse!!
- John's questions from the community call
- Boston meeting
- Check airbnb wishlist
- Philipp is checking on Joi's house
- Tell people to book travel (send quote, Bekka says "go ahead", people book)
- Mech MOOC report
- Weird admin thing (renewal of SAM?)
- Community call planning - line up next few calls / invite people
Problems
Process
- How do we get P2PU to blog?
- Create a calendar for communications, incl. blog posts
- Bekka to check progress/priorities each week on community call
Ideas
4 June
Progress
- Privacy discussions finished, ready to write-up
- MOOC report in first draft
- Ready to start data policy
Priorities
- Working on ToU page
- Data policy
- P2PU Reports
- URL
- Get it on the server
- Announements?
- Meeting logistics
Problems
- Hayfever (Philipp has the solution)
- Loratadine 10mg (every evening)
- Nasal shower (twice a day)
- Add steroidal nose spray (once a day)
Process
Ideas
28 May
Progress
Newsletter doneTalking to Privacy karen tomorrowMOOC Report: talking to Chris & VMG tomorrow
Priorities
- Finding a place to store the reports
- plus packaging legacy docs/malleability of reports
- Meeting
- (2nd week seems preferred) - let's go with that one
- Next steps:
- Follow up with stragglers
- Ask everyone to block the dates
- Book flights
- Book accomodation
- Terms of use page
Problems
Process
- Missing community call June 6th
- This week's office chat - what do we think?
Ideas
Data Policy -
Discourse
21 May
Progress
- Lab reports:
- First draft of Berlin report is ready - any changes?
- Joao working on School of Ed
- Interviewd Steve Carson yesterday for MOOC - it was great
- Data Policy
- Signoff from CC and OKFN
- In touch with privacy lady
- Summarising Data tables with June
- Meeting (move to priorities?)
- Started a list of places on Airbnb
Priorities
- Newsletter this week
- Hosting research papers
- Important we do this properly - so that authors get mileage and we get coverage
- Finishing Data Tables with June
- Reports
- Figure out URL (where do these live)
- Talk to Dirk about getting them on the server
- Meeting
- Need to send mail
- Need paperwork for visa (I'm the only one who needs one)
- Discourse
- Let everyone know about URL
Problems
Process
- How is the strategy discussion going for you?
Parking Lot / Ideas
- Discourse next steps
- How do you like it?
- Decide on URL -> http://thepeople.p2pu.org
- BK to post on discourse to let everyone know we decided on thepeople (and give some reasons why)
- Waiting for tech
- Discussion with community:
- Integration with P2PU web presence (needs to be included in nav bars, etc.)
- Featuring certain topics on other sites (e.g. listing intereating threads about badges on badges.p2pu.org)
- What other categories do we need? ("Getting started") ("Running courses")
- Announce
- Email not great for all discussions
- Want P2PU to feel more open, easier to get involved with
- We've tested discourse with the team
- We are not shutting down the mailing list, but expect to gradually move most conversations over to discourse.
14 May
Progress
Priorities
- June's paper - shared and for community call
- MOOCMAker - have a call with steve for MOnday
- Write up of licence recommendtion to community
- Send to Philipp who will forward to CC and OKF
Problems
Process
- P2PU HR stuff - nobody is doing it and people are sounding needy
Ideas
- Proposal for OKCon? Call closes on May 24th
7 May
Progress
- Joao busy with layout, will get next draft to BK soon.
- Needs School of Ed report
- Data License report shared with team
Priorities
- Nudge June re CKAN
- BK to export data from SurveyMonkey
- MOOCMaker report is in SurveyMonkey
- MOOCMaker report
Problems
Process
- Missing calls/ Stuff needs to go into etherpad before the call
30 April
What is it that we are bringing, and to whom?
- Spread awareness that informal open online learning is credible (and awesome)
- Provide communities to learn with for those interested in peer learning
- Offer a validation of learning for individuals, through new types of recognition, and association with credible partners
- Help organizations to engage with and grow their networks through learning
30 April
Progress
- Insurance paid
- Berlin report -> Joao has everything he needs, working on next version
- Last draft of School of Ed done - BK to share
- Have mailed June
- Spent day with School of Data
Priorities
- Next report?
- Mechanical Mooc (Python MOOC), would like to do interviews "How we made the mechanical MOOC)
- Steve Carson (ask for a participant to speak to)
- Chris Ewald
- Nudge Karen privacy lady
- Am working on a licence matrix (please no! this sounds horrible...)
- Reframed as Bekka's Licence Recommendation:
- FAQ with super short answers
- One or two licence recommendations (June is on board)
- Share with board/community/etc.
- Marketing strategy for reports
- Spread the word about OCW award
- Karen HP proposal (won't require much input)
- (Possible) Hewlett proposal draft review
Problems
- Can't send newsletter - we've maxed out our free MailChimp account. Paid account = $43 p/m (that's with a non-profit discount)
- Explore migration to Google Groups (check both public, but also Google App account - p2pu.org)
- Can't make this week's community call - have put a how-to into tech document
23 April
Progress
Insurance payments - spent the day on the phone - can we do it on the card? (US 2068.00)BK to try card, if it doesn't work, send a check via internat banking. DONE
- First draft of layout from Joao,
- he needs data for visualisations
- Good follow-up from June on the data sharing stuff (see emails) & spoke to Sam @OKFN
Priorities
- Final Berlin by the end of the week
- Finish data policy (long-term)
- Speak to June (short term), practicalities,
- Mention CKAN to him, see what he says,
- Licencing - BK to speak to Karen Neumann
- School of Ed report - lots of panel beating
Process
Problems
16 April
Progress
- Berlin report: Joao on board, working on v1, will do it for free
- Board meeting slides: to check with P today
- Content is done
- Images to be added into the GDoc
- School of Ed report: holdups
- Data policy discussion -
- suggestion: a virtual spectogram in the pad - people put their initials (in colour) on a spectrum:
- idea 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------idea 2
Priorities
- Blog posts -
- check with Dirk, Vanessa's is coming, BK to do a hackday one
10 April
Progress
- Round 2 of Berlin Report
- Spoke to Joao - seems keen, do we know about budget?
- BK to ask about hourly rate
- Newsletter out (GREAT newsletter!)
Youtube archive added to info.p2pu - BK to edit page, add more info, change name- Insurance sorted
Priorities
- Instruct Ryan to pay insurance
- Round 2 of Berlin Report
- Lab report template
OCWC voting- School of Ed report just arrived - will look at it today/tomorrow
- (Potentially) GLAM Wiki event
- Data licencing policy - Setting up the community call about it
- BK to prepare people for it
Process
- Paying people was an exception (dongle issues)
Problems
2 April
Progress
Priorities
- Add mini community call section in Tech Account document
- Berlin report (5 drafts in)
- Bekka to speak to Joao about design, show him the 2 reports, looking for a template, rather than stand-alone
- Spread the word to Media Lab if needed
- School of Ed report (check with Karen Fasimpaur)
- MOOC report (Steve Carson)
- Blogging & newsletter
- Preview Open Hackathon post
Process
- Add article about CEO email practices and mention in community list
30 March
- Progress
- 1st draft (of 6 or 7) of Berlin Report done (1/3 still need to be removed)
- Hours sorted
- Priorities
- On "vacation" from Friday until 31st - after that:
- multiple drafts berlin report
- Karen Fasimpaur's report on School of Ed
- MOOC report - alternate approach (tie to open learning hackathon / interviews with builders)
- Problems
- Mailing list conversation
- Process
- Start invoicing for 96 hours from April? - Yes (but review Maths)
- Move weekly call to Tuesdays? - Moved
- Research VMG <> BK
- How can we improve our use of email -> http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4438.html
- Consider more synchronous communication when we are all awake
- Use email differently
- Stuff
- Thinking about team goals. What do WE want? I have no idea what the staff of P2PU are working towards together, in concrete terms, not abstractions.
- How do I/we fit into the matrix of what other people are working on?
- At times, feels very compartmentalised
- There is a differnece between hands-off that encourages people to step up and grow, and not knowing what is going on.
13 March
Progress
- Newsletter done
- Mountains of mail processed
- Chloe passed design request on
- MOOC report - mid May
- Berlin Report - Mid May?
- Timesheet central (system set up and working)
Priorities
Problems
Process
- Feedback on role change (DU says helpdesk is fine, VMG also says it makes sense and she doesn't see problems)
Stuff
6 March
Progress
- Static text updated (Get Involved page on info.p2pu.org and p2pu.org)
- Copyright tutorial linked from SOO
- 1st draft of Berlin Report (google doc)
- Erika onboarded
Priorities
- SOO reviews
- Blog posts
- Featured SOO courses
- Voices from the MOOC
- Defining new responsibilities
- Chief writer/Researcherwoman/Documentationist/Archivariat/Writer in residence (Righter of Residence) - role vs community role
Problems
- We don't have a clear ASK for new people we meet
- "Run a course" isn't working (it's a huge ask, we are doubtful about scalability of courses)
- Run a hangout might be easier / more promising
- Next Step: What will this look like, and what do we need to build to make it happen?
Process
- Community call
- Keep increasing the governance component
Stuff
- Google Ngram - Villagers and werewolves
February 13
Progress
- Mid-Feb newsletter went out today - too early to tell on stats but looking good.
- Blog stats: Up 103% since 14 Jan 2013 (i don't think this is hugely indicative, since most of it is referrals from MIT/LCL but people seem to like these stats) - they like them until they start going down again ;-)
- Insurance renewal process underway
Priorities
- Berlin report
- Bill of rights? -
- we're walking away. Leave the document as open as possible, and let people know that they can add/edit/use it.
- Personal learning plan blog post
- Follow up success discussion
- View from inside the MOOCs "Are you in a P2PU MooC? We'd love to hear some reports from the embedded..."
Problems
- I don't think we communicated the UX changeover very well. There was confusion, some courses are still using beta site, we should have done it differently.
Process
- Am I supposed to be doing a performance review this month? Was scheduled for Jan 28th
Stuff
February 3rd
- Progress
- Readership for newsletter is up and blog stats for Jan were 2nd best ever
- Want to rethink the newsletter mailing list (currentl manually tansferring, it's a pain and people get spammed)
- On Air worked for call, now we have a video record (with loud typing, note to self for next time)
- Have checked Facebook and twitter/blog links - they weren't working but now they are.
- Priorities
- Problems
- Blogs are a bit thin at the moment
- Process
- Stuff
January 28th
- Progress
- Newsletter almost ready to go - can I add a link to Bill of Rights edit?
- yes, with a small paragraph from us
- Looks like money stuff is sorted (thanks, P!)
- Bekka to check that we have the documentation for all these payments
- Call worked last week (except for on Air, which was a google problem)
- Priorities
- On air part of call
- Blogs
- Philipp's Berlin Keynote / Next week
- Technovation (Bekka)
- DML (Vanessa) - went up
- Music Hackday (Chris)
- Open Ed week planning
- UX launch framing
- 2 messages, for community and public, saying the same thing in different ways.
- Wait until we have some more new courses to point people to.
- Prepping stats for community call
- Follow up with Billy from CC re: blog post
- Problems
- Process
- Stuff
- What about our Berlin 2012 report?
January 21st
Progress
- Newsletter went out, reader stats rising
Priorities
- Logistics for community call -
- Google+ Communities?
- Hangout on air?
- VMG needs pay stubs with tax info
- blogs
- 2nd Jan newsletter
- Money hunt
- Open Ed week planning
- (SoO launch, anything else?)
Problems
Process
Stuff
SoD f2f meetup/course creation sprint?
Another round of course promotion?
January 16th
Progress
- Insurance - We're good until end of Feb
- Newsletter - New look, 1st issues goes out this week (GREAT!!!)
Priorities
- blog posts for next week
- newsletter v 2
Problems
- Money hunt - Bekka to find out where that money went
- Need to get better at feedback to Bekka's work
Process
Stuff
January 7 2013
Progress
- Excellent meeting with Vanessa re: content strategy (http://pad.p2pu.org/p/*contentparty)
- Monitoring busy courses
Priorities
- Newsletter for 15th
- Communicate content strategy to staff/community
- Community call
- Blog post
- Separate follow-up emails
- Strat call follow-up
- Philipp needs to write a blog post
- Community call: Grant writing with Philipp
- (Might happen the week after) School of Data launch marketing
- Insurance crap
Problems
Process
Stuff