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Template
- Standups (in writing only)
- Alison
- Bekka
- Chloe
- John
- Philipp
- Zuzel
- Alan
- News of the week (in writing only)
- Blog posts you wrote
- Articles / books you read
- Initiatives you heard about
- Short report backs (1 min)
- New Courses (Alison)
- Development priorities (Zuzel)
- Showcase items (Alison)
- Agenda (3 formats)
- A challenge you need help with
- Any proposals you need feedback on
- Ideas you want collaborators for
- General discussion and questions
- Anything else that just needs to be said out loud
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See the new pad http://pad.p2pu.org/community-call
February 9
- Attendees
- Gunner
- Carla
- Sunny
- Piet
- Vanessa
- Brylie
- Standups (in writing only)
- Alison
- Bekka
- General Admin (banking, tax, insurance, contracting etc)
- Plenty blogging (see below)
- planning for berlin/london
- Chloe
- SoW Report One pager
- NSF grant, curriculum ideas
- Design Doc Assessment Features, round# 2 first sketches for 5 areas below
- Challenge Creation
- Task Plugins
- Discussions
- Badges
- Mentorship
- John
- Continuing Developer Interviews
- We still need to find someone
- Started work on Summer Internship Program (developers + outreach)
- Working on planning for Berlin
- Completed Review of Webmaking 101 Challenges
- Scheduled user interviews
- Requesting beta testers for new challenges
- Added Chinese language file to github
- Google Summer of Code Application - http://pad.p2pu.org/gsoc
- We need mentors, will send an email to p2pu-dev
- Google Grant Approved, managing campaign
- working on keyword optimization for PPC and SEO
- This will increase our keyword validity on the Google adwords we choose
- Nonprofit deal from SEOmoz on their monitoring software
- Philipp
- School of Data - announcement and fund-raising
- NSF grant plotting
- Learning challenges report (feedback to Chloe)
- Org stuff - legal, payments, etc.
- Zuzel (on vacation)
- Alan
- News of the week (in writing only)
- Blog posts you (we?) wrote
- Articles you read
- Initiatives you heard about
- Short report backs (1 min)
- New Courses
- Development priorities
- Showcase items
- lots of good stuff in the blog over the last week
- Agenda (3 formats)
- Format comment: Everything here needs some context / narrative.
- Why is this important? What's the background?
- What are you proposing?
- What's feedback or input do you need?
- Philipp: Before we launch into this part of the agenda, I'd like to say something. Puts up his hand ...
- Can we reduce the list of courses to one or two specific asks - something to look at, something to note, something to be fixed etc
- Ali volunteers to to send an email to the community
- pick one from each category
- send long list to community
- More awesome challenges for P2PU. [John]
- People are really liking the new challenges. How can we build more and generate some buzz around them?
- Let's each make one challenge in a subject area where we know someone high profile. We do the work and put both names on the challenge (with their blessing of course)
- Format "Challenge Name - High Profile Person - Owner" These are suggestions, please edit. If we each do one we'll make a lot of progress and it won't be a ton of work.
- What does it mean to take "ownership" of one?
- Open Governance / Community Building - Jono Bacon/ Seth Godin (Philipp)
- MBA Monday Challenge - Fred Wilson (John)
- Cyberpunk Fiction - Cory Doctorow / China Mievielle (Bekka, Nadeem, Laurian)
- Creative Writing - ... (Jane)
- Blogging--ask Audrey Waters (Vanessa)
- Building Collaborative Spaces--Alex Hillman (Vanessa)
- Audio Documentary--Ira Glass (eeeek!)
- Food - Gordon Ramsey / Jamie Oliver / Heston Blumenthal (Niels)
- Planning your Web Career - / Sacha Chua / (paulbakulich)
- Plus these http://dev.p2pu.org:9001/p/party
- Questions:
- What are the next steps? How can you help?
- Put your name on the list and start making one
- How do we track progress
- Bekka -> are you doing the one with China Mieville?
- I wish! Go for it! What do you need to actually do it?
- Find him, ask him? Yes!
- John and I will move forward building our challenges ...
- Step 1: Someone take ownership of the challenge
- Step 2: Contact the "sponsor"
- Step 3: Make a draft, review, iterate
- Step 4: Challenge party with the results to get feedback
- Google Keywords
- Our friend Mac in Berlin (http://dataloo.de) hooked us up with Google to get this grant.
- I need help brainstorming search keywords to improve traffic to P2PU [John]
- Mindset: Think like users, what kind of searches do we expect people to do when looking for P2PU (if they know us or not)?
- Think in terms of topic areas or solving a user's problem
- EX: User wants to learn how to read music. Possible search queries for this topic:
- how to read music
- learn to read music
- learn to read music free
- parts of a musical staff
- learning scales
- We can theme keyword groups around:
- Individual courses
- Schools
- Subjects to learn
- Mentorship
- ETC
- It can be better to have links that connect to pages lower down in a site
- Gunner -> it may be that the bid on a page are capped at $1.00
- we should anticipate a lot of tuning-time
- Further reading: http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=16928
- Philipp: we already get quite a lot of new users to the site with keywords as we have now, but they're not high-quality users
- with better keywords, we might get better users directed to us.
- Might it be useful to look at the search terms that people use when they wind up at the blog?
- We have all of these recorded in the Wordpress stats (I can give access if you don't have it)
- Brylie -> We need to add keywords to our existing pages
- Google will analyze our pages to determine the keyword (adword) relevancy.
- <meta keywords> would be a start.
- Homework: Brainstorm P2PU keyword groups [John]
- Our goal is to come up with as many distinct groups as possible, but keep the keywords within a given group RELATED
- Post here: http://pad.p2pu.org/keywords
- People willing to help:
- John
- Alison
- gunner
- P2PU Goes to Berlin!
- http://pad.p2pu.org/berlin
- There has been a recurring idea @ P2PU of having a virtual office
- Idea is to set up space in Berlin (cheap, we like it)
- June/July/August
- Most staff will be there in July, some for longer
- We'll find a good working space, which will include some kind of way to provide three meals a day
- Shared accommodation for those who want to come
- We have created a fellowship for people who need help in getting to Berlin
- List of projects has been created, for people to sign up to
- There is an application process (outlined on the etherpad) and some factors will be considered:
- Skills / project idea
- Committment shown in the past
- Time willing to spend in Berlin
- First proposal is on the etherpad (above)
- We're looking for feedback from everyone, on every aspect...
- Piet: this is everything I have been waiting for from P2PU
- Question: how is a community member defined?
- Answer -> Philipp: sense is that people who are on the list/actively participate, but there is no threshold set
- Carla -> segment about who you want, and what they can bring to the table, and maybe select by category, as a rough first cut
- Vanessa: not clear what I would be doing (Philipp: This is something we need to fix in the message!)
- Bekka: In terms of the everyday working at P2PU, just having people in the same room would be helpful (having people there without the ability to escape). Maybe it doesn't have to be so clearly defined.
- Different for staff members and volunteers? Staff members already have long todo lists ... but people who come to Berlin to work on specific projects?
- Ali -> it's not up to us to define what a community member is, the community defines this for themselves
- We should think about buckets of need, which will enable people to make stronger applications
- If the application requires a reference from a community/staff member, then we need to be clearer on what/who a community member is
- Piet -> I would probably approach a staffer I know, and start the conversation that way (Philipp: And I would write the recommendation ;-)
- But for people who aren't 100% familiar with P2PU it might be very difficult
- Philipp -> The process has to help bring new people in to the community
- Proposal: Add a contact person for each project that is on the list, this might be a good starting point, especially for people who don't already have friends at P2PU
- Next step:
- Philipp to update the description, and get the project list started. Then open the application process. Will add deadlines to the berlin pad.
- Courses/Challenges/Groups? (Moved to next week)
- Take a decision on consolidation of courses-challenges-study groups [Alison,Chloe,John]
- Can we postpone until there is a proposal based on previous discussion (and the emails)
- Outreach strategy
- Need help developing an outreach strategy to bring new courses into P2PU [Alison]
- Metapoint from Philipp ->agenda items what have context/background seem to be the ones that are most successful
- Having a specific ask is also helpful,
- Next step: Ali to add text to next week's pad, and we'll hold the discussion until then.
- Ideas you want collaborators for
- General discussion and questions
- Challenges discussion (Chloe)
- We created some great challenges at last week's amazing challenge party, http://dev.p2pu.org:9001/p/party
- The follow-up will be the Badge Edition party on Feb 23rd, where ideas can be refined, and tied to badges
- Tie existing challenges to badges.
- Chloe will send follow-up invitation, and is willing to review challenges
- Competition for the best badge title - surprise gift!!! (WHAT? That's amazing)
- Get started here -> http://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-challenge/
- Can still participate at the "How to make a Challenge" challenge http://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-challenge/
- I did some work on my challenge. Would love some feedback. Will post now. (ok but you cannot get the suprise gift before the competition ^^)
- Yes, Philipp, that's CHEATING!
- School of Open (Philipp) Yay!
- Slowly coming together, but we are moving faster on School of Data ;-)
- Open.Michigan is working with Data Without Borders this weekend on a "datadive" - we should have created challenges for this but didn't; we still need to work on badging for this event, but we'll have more in the future (http://a2datadive.weebly.com/)
- Please point them to this form (and point yourself as well) and register so we can make sure to keep you in the loop:
- Mainly waiting for the person who's been identified as a coordinator to step into this role
- Carla -> this touches on the Open Badges Endorsers idea, where outside orgs/partner orgs endorse a badge that has been issued by some other org.
- Piet -> Open Michigan is interested in School of Open becuase we've been thinking about it ourselves and waiting for a group to get it started
- Launched their badges this week, and already thinking about next steps. and the Open Badges team knows someone who received one! :)
- Community Call notes on P2PU Blog [John]
- This came up on the mailing list, I'm +1 as this will help our search engine rankings and give us something to talk about as well as preserve notes in a non-editable space. I don't think this needs discussion, just wanted to note it here.
- Idea that was discussed:
- Clean up typos / formatting after the call
- Suggestion -> Clear colors (or turn off color display). Makes it much easier to read.
- Write a summary blog post that links back to the notes and push it out through blog/tweet/etc.
- Thank you Brylie for setting up the Etherpad Lite server. +1 +1 When Zuzel is back we hope to migrate!
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February 2
- Attendees
- Carla Casilli @cmcasilli @OpenBadges
- Standups (in writing only)
- Alison
- new DIY U
- new courses
- quarterly schedule (still awaiting feedback)
- Bekka
- Tax filing
- General admin
- Blogging/tweeting/promo writing
- Contracting
- Chloe
- Traveling
- Creating School of Webcraft Survey Report
- in GMT+7 timezone till 19th of Feb
- John
- Webcraft
- Hub DC with Alan
- Google Adwords
- Developer Interviews
- Community Reviewed Groups
- Learn Page / Group Discovery
- Philipp
- Press
- Contracting / Hiring
- Berlin prep (venue)
- Helping -> assessment framework,
- P2PU as a Lab concept doc (secret)
- Zuzel
- Release past Saturday (28th)
- Leaving for Portugal tomorrow (back on Feb 13th)
- Implemented a few things to be released when I am back (see bellow Development Priorities Section for details)
- Alan
- Looking for feedback on - http://pad.p2pu.org/masters
- Forming the Design for Social Innovation team (Max Harper and Laura White)
- Getting the Design for Social Innovation global signup page copy written
- News of the week (in writing only)
- Blog posts you wrote
- Articles you read
- Initiatives you heard about
- Short report backs (1 min)
- Development priorities
- Implemented for the next release (middle february, just after I am back from Portugal):
- Super user able to "delete" courses/study groups/changes to control spam
- Initial support for Swedish, Dutch and Chinese translatations (the chinese translation file is empty so I there are no volunteers I will disable it)
- Added duration fields to challenges
- Comming from pull requests by voluntary contributors (maybe also on that same release):
- Disable recaptcha for direct messages replies (dimanchec3)
- Updated language on course creation template (1l2p)
- Organizer contact button visible for organizers (brylie)
- Include "My Groups" as an item in the "Learn" drop down menu (platvampb)
- Changing colors of the characters counts for posting messages to the wall (josmas)
- Next Things in the Project Pipeline
- Community Review of Courses II part
- Jobs Page
- OBI integration
- Learn Page Course Discovery
- Agenda (3 formats)
- A challenge you need help with
- Any proposals you need feedback on
- Ideas you want collaborators for
Challenge Creation Kick off Party
- Introductions [5 min]
- Chloe breaking it down for us ...
- Party Playlist [5 min each]
- Add your name + your challenge idea + your song (bonus if you have a link to one you are currently working)
- If you don't have a challenge to share already:
- Help put together the soundtrack (vote for your favorite songs)
- Make one up on the spot
- Challenge: <title of your challenge>
- Creator: <your name>
- Idea: <what's the idea here? give us your pitch! add a link if you have one>
- Song: <the soundtrack>
- Challenge: Hacktivity Jam Challenge
- Challenge: DIY U: Build a Personal Learning Plan http://p2pu.org/en/groups/diy-u/
- Creator: ALISON
- Idea: Build a plan to get more value (and possibly a credential) from your personal learning.
- Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7mb102V1F0 ("I believe I can fly")
- Feedback Notes:
- Add maybe some introduction task, where everyone says who they are and what they are going to be teaching
- Challenge: First Steps with QuickBooks
- Creator: Bekka Kahn
- Idea: Non-profit people are not always money people, but basic bookkeeping is essential for any org, no matter how big or small. The challenge is to learn the basics of QuickBooks for non-profits. This is for people who find themselves in this position, and need to learn skills, and skilled people willing to share their knowledge.
- First draft: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/bookkeeping-and-basic-accounting-for-non-profits/ (switched from study group)
- Song: Money! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-j3xITvYQY> great choice ;) thanks!
- Questions: Is this appropriate for a challenge?
- Should it be broken into smaller, individual tasks?
- Is the fact that it is based on one software package a problem?
- Feedback Notes:
- Challenge: Open Governance
- Creator: Philipp
- Idea: Communities have values and norms. In order grow stronger while growing bigger, there needs to be a mechanism for transfering these norms to new community members. Examples are community agreements (Debian has this), implicit norms that are enforced by the community, or explicit value pages etc.
- What will you learn: How to identify and evaluate different mechanisms for norms transfer in communities
- What you will do:
- Learn about norms transfer in baboon communities
- Review existing examples and check out interview with Mako (who wrote the Debian one)
- Find more examples for norms transfer
- What do you make? A community agreement for a community that you are a member of
- Embarassingly early draft -> http://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-governance-learn-to-act-like-a-baboon/
- Song: Kumbaya (the 1980 Joan Baez version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3MiD_U4CHQ
- Questions / Need help:
- Is the "make" part interesting enough? What about something crazy - like making a mock up video of a news show in an imaginary state ...
- Need more tasks to get people through this
- Feedback Notes:
- Chloe: Like the mockumentary idea - representing the community in some way. Could use storify or popcorn to make the videos. If you do video, provide guidelines. Video should have introduction. Some kind of story. Make a storyboard. Find your community heroes. Protagonists for your story. What do they do?
- Philipp: Maybe a video that tells the story of a community faced with a challenge.
- Bekka: Don't worry about wanting people to make similar things.
- Alan: Have thought about branding / marketing. Create something and ask yourself ... if this thing we are creating was a car ... a food ... a shirt... what would it be? Example: Car -> cadillac - it's comfortable and slow and big ...
- Challenge: Make digital music! Build your first synthesizer with Pure Data
- Creator: John
- Idea: Brief introduction to PureData and it's primitives
- What is a DAC
- What is an oscillator
- Left and right channels
- It's drag and drop
- Input - Integer
- Connect the dots
- Kick it of with a "bang"
- Share your synth, try one from your peers
- Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHKDE56Cdv4
- Feedback Notes
- What about asking people to submit songs/synths as collaborations? Or whole orchestras?
- share favorite songs, instruments, styles - inspirations
- Is there already a community space / site where people share these synths? -yes, but it's really not great... but should introduce that directory - and get people to post their stuff to the site
- make the title more musical
- Add some introductory tasks
- Challenge: Explore your Empathy
- Creator: Alan (on behalf of Laura White)
- Idea: exercises you can do to improve your empathy
- Shell so far, no work done yet: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/explore-your-empathy/
- http://empathy.ashoka.org/series-101
- Example tasks
- What does it feel like to be invisible?
- Complete the Homeless Challenge Project with National Coalition for the Homeless, where economically-privileged people dress down, empty their wallets and spend 48 hours homeless on the streets of Washington, D.C. (wow! that's a pretty high bar)
- Complete the Anti-Racism Training through SOAR
- Q: shopping cart approach versus linear task list?
- Song: How could you be so heartless? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP11SIQhUGw
- Feedback Notes
- Phil - Important to work together for this challenge, enforce collaboration
- Chloe - Follow-up challenges - come up with some kind of solution
- "Mentors" could be homeless?
- Start with personal interests and then follow with more solution focused challengs
- Also, what are they making? This has a lot of media potential, i.e. website, blog, mobile phone app etc, video
- Challenge: Programming with APIs
- Creator: Jessy with Chloe
- Idea apply core programming constructs to a dynamic data source
- Song
- Feedback Notes
- Favorite task name "Patience, Young Padawan"
- Question -> Is there some way to connect API calls, so that participants would build on each others' work?
- jessy loves this idea
- philipp suggests "exquisite corpse" API :)
- Take the Dance Floor [up to 30 min]
- Pitch us your Challenge in 2-3 minutes; explain what is the problem you are asking your peers to solve, what skills will they get out of solving it, what is the context for doing so and what will they be making at the end.
- After each pitch, there is a quick round of feedback
- Should we keep notes above right under each challenge description? Yes!
- Possible Guiding Questions;
- What is the big idea?
- What is the problem you are asking your learners to solve?
- What is the context?
- What is the goal?
- What are your learners making at the end?
- Does it sound fun?
- After hours chill-out [10 min]
- Question 1 - What are Challenges that the model works really well for? What does it not work for?
- Philipp: Not from the examples we saw - but I don't think it's great for rote / fact learning
- Jessy: In fact, challenges could work well for rote learning - but rote learning is not a great way to learn
- Bekka: Agree with Jessy. Challenges may not work so well in learning that requires a huge amount of solo reading. May not work so well for learning that is discussion based / exploratory.
- Philipp: Requires a switch in your head to apply to some content
- Question 2 - How can the challenges model/UX be improved? What's missing?
- Question 3 - How do we promote challenges?
- What's the right "length" of a challenge?
- Chloe: Generally - one challenge is better than multiple (you loose users between challenges)
- rule of thumb A good number is maximum of about 10 tasks (a 10 steps to do sthg)
- General feedback (feel free to type more feedback here)
- Party format:
- Super useful if people prepare (both to post and to review challenge ideas)
- Challenges:
- Introductions are useful as a general building block in challenges
- What's next?
- Do another session in a few weeks
- Give people time to complete their challenge drafts
- Focus of next session: Adding badges into your challenge
- Plan the next party, how, when?
- In the meantime -> use this to collaborate > http://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-challenge/ (join if you haven't already)
- Other topics (probably move to next week):
- Need help developing an outreach strategy to bring new courses into P2PU [Alison]
- Need people to create some awesome challenges, let's each make one and find a high-profile collaborator [John]
- Ideas:
- Open Governance / Community Building - Jono Bacon/ Seth Godin (Philipp)
- MBA Monday Challenge - Fred Wilson (John)
- Cyberpunk Fiction - Cory Doctorow / China Mievielle (Bekka, Nadeem, Laurian)
- Creative Writing - ... (Jane)
- Food - Gordon Ramsey / Jamie Oliver / Heston Blumenthal (Niels)
- Planning your Web Career - / Sacha Chua / (paulbakulich)
- General discussion and questions (Anything else that just needs to be said out loud)
- I'd like to see more jQuery use on the site, like when adding a comment / post (try to minimise page refreshes by Django) - (paulbakulich) +1
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January 26
- Attendees
- Alan
- Gunner
- Carla
- Jessy
- Philipp
- Zuzel
- Sunny
- Chloe
- Standups (in writing only)
- Alison
- Bekka
- Gathering information for tax filing
- Insurance paperwork
- Planning for open ed week with Chloe
- General admin
- Chloe
John (on vacation)- Philipp
- Board meeting - Budget 2012 approved
- Times Higher Education comment piece (coming out shortly)
- Hiring (no success yet)
- Jessy
- started posting the programming 101 challenge ("programming with APIs"). hope to be done today, maybe tomorrow.
- will definitely want feedback/suggestions when it's up.
- approaching profs of my reading class in HCI this semester to see if they are cool w me running a p2pu version of the course in parallel.
- Zuzel
- Alan
- Recruiting the Design Thinking organizers this week and next from Hubs (Melbourne, SF, Westminister, DC)
- Working on the Pitch to the Hub Association for the Peer Masters
- Preparing for the Ashoka U Exchange workshop
- News of the week (in writing only)
- Blog posts you wrote
- Articles you read
- Initiatives you heard about
- Short report backs (1 min)
- New Courses:
- READY
- UNDER DEVELOPMENT
- USE CASES
- How do we help these people? (what does this mean?)
- Common uses of the group feature: more unlikely courses (that probably won't go anywhere) are being created than likely ones.
- 2 categories:
- People testing the platform
- People create a mission/course and never come back to it - we want to catch these people.
- Philipp -> as a quick fix for people who are not spammers can we set up an alpha server, and in the form let people know that they can play around in that space ( +1 Alison)
- Single sign on? Link to alpha.p2pu.org (this is close to what philipp described)
- Sandbox for this purpose?... we already have http://sandbox.p2pu.org/
- note: sandbox.p2pu.org is pointing to p2pu.org
- task: redirect dns to alpha.p2pu.org
- What do we need to make this work?
- Update home page content on sandbox so people know their stuff can disappear at any time
- Update Course Creation form on p2pu.org so people know there is a sandbox
- Ali -> these people are pretty web savvy, and aren't scared to test, so not too much handholding would be required.
- Alan -> might the course review feature take care of a lot of these?
- Ali -> yes. And a sandbox would reduce the amount of mail and notifications that come in to the admin account.
- Alan -> Could courses be cloned from the sandbox to P2Pu.org?
- Probably not, and we don't want people to think that the sandbox is the place where they create their courses.
- Zuzel -> There is a thread on the community list about review feature - can someone please shake that thread so we don't forget about it!
- What's the subject of that thread?
- Next steps:
- CEU courses designed for and by mental health professionals: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/ceu-courses-designed-for-and-by-mental-health-professionals/
- One Heart Source Pre-Field Training: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/one-heart-source-pre-field-training/
- Libraries and Teens: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/libraries-and-teens/
- How do we let people test and make use of profiles?
- Development priorities
- Working on layout changes for the profile and the db models to suport Community Review of Courses -
- Q: Is this going live on the weekend? can people actually review courses (or backend implementation for now)? A: Backend for now - mockups work starts when John is back (email discussion)
- Next on the Project Pipeline: Jobs Page and OBI integration
- Agenda (3 formats)
- A challenge you need help with
- Any proposals you need feedback on
- Ideas you want collaborators for
- Paypal button [bekka]
- The button needs to be configured (this can be done in the paypal interface)
- Bekka not an expert - looking for input
- I think there is good stuff in here:
- Webcraft -> Latin America/Ambassadors?
- (maybe not relevant q) should we connect badges to these challenges that are translated? show it we scheduled on the badges pipeline? chloe? ok
- should the badge description be in spanish +1 I can help but good to have more people (i think the Latin America SoW should take charge of that)
- More people getting help notifications
- How do we get more people to sign up to be able to answer help questions
- Very few people know that this is a possibility, and might want to help, so perhaps it would take an email to the community list explaining how to do this and ask for volunteers
- Alison -> to clarify, this is to get more people contributing on the public side not the private discussion side
- Any p2pu user that logins into the help desk can change their notification preferences on help.p2pu.org to be notified when a new discussion is created. This will not include private discussions but those should only be available to people we trust and list on the help.p2pu.org as support staff.
- Ali -> if you start a conversation, you automatically get notifications about the discussions, but not sure if people can do this without admin rights (yes they can see bellow)
- Ali to investigate and send a mail to the community
- Users can edit their notifications preferences at : http://help.p2pu.org/profile/edit and choose to receive a notifications when someone adds a new discussion: http://help.tenderapp.com/kb/general-use/managing-notifications
- General discussion and questions / Anything else that just needs to be said out loud
- Fireside chat / Virtual book launch - Learning, Freedom and the Web (using BigBlueButton)
- Freakshow (?) - the absolute unprepardness, a lot of fumbling of setting up the technology
- Participants not great at using webcam
- Great content - how do we make it look better?
- As we use these virtual tools, how do we make them engaging for viewers
- More coaching than technology
- Camera angle looking down is better (mundane issue, but changes energy on the screen)
- Content was an awkward mix of self-congratulation and awesome stuff.
- some of the points were good, but it bounced around a lot
- BigBlueButton should be able to point us to the recording of this conversation
- Philipp -> there was a lot of preaching to the choir, some detail was discussed, but there were not enough people to have a generic discussion.
- How do we get these events out to people?
- the talking vs doing it framework: talking brings pundits, mixing it with online learning might meet the doing requirement more than the talking aspect.
- Question: what was the awesome part?
- International focus
- repeated discussion about making being important
- idea that making & learning and the web are tied
- Announcing Challenge Kick off Party next week Feb 2nd. Will be sending an email to community today. Start working on a Challenge about a topic you want to teach using this http://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-challenge/ and we will present and give feedback to each other during the party.
- Bring people in to the community call, with some tasks already planned, to have a party, present some challenges, introduce people to the idea, help people develop tasks and get ideas.
- Any thinking on timing? - Feb 2nd, in the community call
- Is there interest for making face to face challenge parties/events/jams?
- If people are interested I could make a kit for people who want to host their own parties/jams etc
- Chloe met with people in NYC and made some cool challenges, face to face works well
- Possibility to do this in London for Open Education Week
- Could we get a one-day pass for Skype Premium and have local hangouts realtime sharing in a couple different places? (DC, London, NYC?) +1
- I think I could get the Design Thinking and the Empathy folks to participate Chloe (DC and New Orleans)
- is this for next week? we can postpone if you need to rganize better
- I think Open Education Week might be better for those groups, but happy to try for next week if it's better.
etherpad for open education week here http://pad.p2pu.org/openeducationweek
add your ideas
January 19
- Attendees
- Bekka
John (on leave)- Alison
- Brylie
- Carla
- Philipp
- Chloe
- Sunny
- Standups
- Alison
- new courses under development
- help desk hours
- Bekka
- Chloe
John (on leave)- Philipp
- Surveys (challenges, badges)
- DML Proposal Phase II
- somewhat different from what we suspect the other submissions will be, but fits in with ideas around platform, have asked for input from Carla and Erin
- Happy to working with other partners on this as the process goes forward
- Hiring / Contracting
- Zuzel
- Interviews for Dev position
- Getting back on track with the dev todo (was not able to get much done last week)
- Still on track for release tomorrow
- Development priorities (I've added this to the regular points for future calls - PS)
- Idea is to ask Zuzel/John to give very short overview of what is underway in terms of development progress
- https://trello.com/board/project-pipeline/4ec0f020c137ff072a5d8afa
- Chloe -> suggestion - would it be helpful to have monthly goals and milestones that we can share widely with the community to help people know what's being worked on both project and dev-wise
- We do something similar on the dev call, we can add it as a point
- This week update:
- In the last few weeks we've finished the requests for the Hackasaurus challenge set
- allowing interaction with external sites
- Trying to add flexibility to badges which individuals and peers can submit and give
- Notification features for badges
- Next phase:
- Arlton has done work on changing the profile layout - Zuzel will work on these, and share the URL
- There has been discussion around how people search for courses, and allowing people to have a reviewer role, and allow them to see which courses have not been reviewd. Nice.
Agenda
- help.p2pu.org / support process - who answers questions on help.p2pu.org? [Philipp]
- John has been running a lot of the helpdesk stuff
- with him on vacation, how are things going, who is running things, do people need help?
- Zuzel -> I don't think we get back to people in a day, but I step in when it seems like a technical problem
- Chloe -> suggestion: should we make a video of all the FAQs?
- Q: Did Zuzel say we do NOT get back to people fast enough? Not every question within a day. (do we send an email that says we ll get back to you asap, etc etc?)
- Does helpdesk need to be one degree removed from P2PU lernata?
- What do you mean Brylie?
- We can reduce our reliance on proprietery software service(s).
- I.e we are using/leaning on a third party service that Django/Lernata are capible of providing.
- Relatedly, having threaded/topical discusisons might be a beneficial feature across the P2PU interface/courses.
- Also having support as part of the primary P2PU might encourage/enable community members to prrovide support alongside of staff.
- Building helpdesk functionality would give us tight integrative control.
- Ali -> often questions require us getting more info, which is why they're not closed within a day, but I don't think anyone is being ignored
- Ali - it sounds like you are able to cover while John is watching lions. Great!
- Philipp -> would more people help and watch the helpdesk if they got the notifications?
- Philipp to follow up with John on how to do this. Zuzel says we can add volunteers from the community. Other suggestion would be to send summaries to the dev list.
- The problem is that some disscusions are marked as private.
- Todo -> John, Zuzel, Philipp, Chloe to discuss in dev call and make a recommendation (with Ali's input)
- Ali -> one way to integrate the helpdesk more is to integrate articles within pages on the site, with a small icon or something
- i think the helpdesk should have its own p2pu looking page, with a video ;) >> we should make a trello card for this
- little evidence people use live chat in my timezone
- http://p2pu.org/en/groups/html-and-css-for-beginners/ - proprietary issues
- A community member brought this item to our attention
- Basically, in this course (which has a lot of users) participants have been asked to go to a site and take a paid course, with no free or open alternative offered.
- User highlighted this, warned that P2PU could be used as a link to closed, proprietary course
- Question: how is this backed by School of Webcraft?
- @Zuzel: is there a way to see who added the course to the school? (Yes there is - Zuzel is checking)
- In terms of the SoW charter - this course should NOT be associated with the school (but how do they have the logo? someone added them at some point)
- Charter -> http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/draftwebcraftcharter/
- "Courses must be built around tools that are accessible to any learner free of cost and that allow participants to openly share their work."
- Will the course review feature help with this? If there was a comment field that we could highlight things like this in (e.g. "This course requires use of a non-free online course" etc.)
- Review discussion has focussed on "before course goes live" up till now, but perhaps we need to think about setting this up for after the course goes live as well.
- Then people can leave messages or requests for free and open alternatives
- I think this same user also mentioned things like the need to buy a domain which could be something we are asking for on the webmaking 101 challenges
- Bekka: Hard to keep track of all the things that are going on in any course - to flag things like this.
- Brylie -> Read the charter, and not 100% clear on the definitions of "free and open" - a lot of the courses feature common, sometimes proprietary, sometimes not free platforms and tools
- I think it will be more a question about hosting costs (and the diversity of things people use outside of p2pu).
- Philipp ->SoW Charter: "Courses must be built around tools that are accessible to any learner free of cost and that allow participants to openly share their work."
- In future - would be nice if we didn't need to discuss this on the community call, but had a group of people who handle this (and bring problems / unclear cases to the community)
- Where can we dicuss functionality?
- Dev list or dev call if you want to join
- Discuss idea for chat integration [Brylie]
- A lot of the values of P2PU, and the learning model would be well served by havinga live chat integration
- Brylie: are you clear on what Zuzel suggested with regards to implementing it?
- Somewhat. I will follow up with Zuzel :)
- There is a lot of support for offering a chat tool / feature, we just don't have development resources to build it ... would need someone to step in as a volunteer and take leadership
- Where/how can we find the resources to develop this? Everyone would like to see chat as a more prominent feature
- Parts may already be developed
- Everyone would like to see a dozen things developed - sorry, not trying to be sarcastic here - but there is a long list of things in the dev pipeline already (all of which are important)
- Lets at least pledge to keep the idea/initiative alive :-) +1
- Suggestion -> add the p2pu IRC room more prominently / or other chat plugin [preferably other plugin, it's just that we already have the IRC room, but yes - not nice for non-geeks]
- Chloe thinks its a brilliant idea / helps peer to peer interaction, makes possible TEAM work! :)
- Update on OBI? end of January according to Brian / Sunny can add
- Sunny -> Came on board in mid-december, still trying to figure out the details
- Erin heads up the Learning Group, which include the OBI
- Carla bridges OBI and the Learning team ( Web Literacies headed by Michelle Levesque?)
- OBI team is Sunny, Carla and Brian
- Learning team Michelle, Jess Klein and Erin -> focused on building curriculum, web literacy badge system for Mozilla
- Sunny & Carla are available to talk, and everyone wears multiple hats, but Sunny will be engaging with partners and hopefully streamlining those processes, making it easier for partners to plug into OBI
- Currently in a kind of beta phase
- After mid-feb, move on to the endorser API
- Website being redesigned - objectve is to make all info easily available to make partners systems OBI pluggable
- Got reply from Brian about the status of the changes going on on the OBI api
- Current -> Critical Feature Complete
- End of Jan: Brian: doing a serious data structure & storage change, still hoping to have it ready by the end of January
- Mid Feb: Displayer API
- Then -> Endorser API
- Zuzel on holiday in early Feb. ETA for integration?
- Sunny to update, but probably best to wait until after Mozilla badges tech sprint
- Week of 13th in Brooklyn
- Connect with Zuzel remotely - consider having one of the participants work on P2PU issuer tech as generic Django app
- Discussion/process match-ups: Zuzel <-> Brian for tech, Sunny<->others for product
- DML Competition
- Matchmaking happening now
- Will know more about dates on Friday
- Give discussion topic (theme) to community call - this calls is getting too administrative Janet Parker
- Bekka - if we could take all the staff standups off, my heart would sing with joy...
- met with Jane yesterday and she requested that we give a topic/ theme to these calls versus stand ups + agenda items....
- Ali -> dull calls aren't a totall bad thing - it's an important way to show the commity that we are open and transparent
- Philipp -> Agree with Ali, but I think it gets pretty boring, and a good 10 minute discussion takes 45 minutes of other stuff.
- Possibility of people "signing up" and preparing different sections
- interesting idea - i definitely think we should have more substantive discussions (maybe around themes)> maybe themes is wrong word ... there is a danger that this calls gets too administrative
- "Themes" made me think you wanted us to dress up ... "sci-fi", "safari", "80's disco" ... which I am of course happy to do! thats exactly what i meant
- Maybe sort the call different so the stands up are not the first thing but we talk about things like the OBI (and people that are joining just that week first).
- We could have an initial +1 session to prioritize agenda topics +1 ;-)
- Bekka is right - written standups
- Chloe -> Also use the call to discuss important things that are happening in the broader world around P2PU
- Suggestion for next week: we use Chloe's "challenge creation" challenge and use the call to discuss what goes into a challenge or talk about what people are doing with this.
- Challenge creation party
- Chloe to decide how to frame? what to use the call for? when to do ... (either thursday 26th or Feb 2nd (PS: Happy to discuss / talk through this if you want Chloe)-ok
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January 12 th
- Attendees
- Chloe
- Philipp
- Zuzel
- Bekka
- Alison
- MariaD
- Standups
- Alison
- general new courses
- semester dev
- Bekka
- General admin
- Paypal paperwork
- Contracting & onboarding for Aleks
- Chloe
- John (travelling)
- Philipp
- Budget 2012
- DML Grant
- Assessment Paper
- Zuzel
- - 2 wisdom teeth and looking like a potato today :D (as long as you don't feel like one) nop, my face just feels big :D Hope they gave you good drugs, Zuzel! Yep, I am taking three kinds of pills every 6 hours.
- Only typing in this community call (learning from yesterday's experience: don't talk in the morning because it will hurt in the afternoon ;) ) ha! +1
- Finished 0.1 version of integrating external interactive content with a task ("Work on this Task" button + window.open + postMessage for communication) -- http://alpha.p2pu.org/en/groups/test-webmaking-101/content/task1/ (login with user-10/password to test)
- Included more flexibility for google analitics tracking of particular pages (e.g, home page of an specific school, home page of an specific challenge set, and home page and tasks pages of an specific challenge) so we can send data from part of the site to a google analytics account. -- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Metrics will make use of this
- Currently commiting backend changes for the Challenge Fixes 1.0 board and will do a release as soon as possible
- The interviews for hiring a new developer are moving fordward
- Started updating links on dev docs and giving some attention to lighthouse which has not being active since we started using trello.
- Chloe and I organized the cards on https://trello.com/board/challenge-fixes-1-1/4ed8ff4175e6467872117dcc
- The date for the hackasaurus launch was postponed (we don't know the new dates yet)
- Next two weeks I will be working on implementing: Community review of Courses & Profile changes with release date around the 27th
- Trisfera Project / READY en espanol
- Cómo empezar con una página web
- http://trisfera.com/camp/
- A group that started about 1 year ago
- Running projects and workshops on their univrsity campus
- realised that in a lab, they could only help a few people
- started developing a platform to run workshops online, but decided it wasbetter to use an exisiting platform
- tried Khan academy, liked the features but realised that they couldn't create their own workshops
- Found P2PU via Mozilla, like the ethos and share our ideals
- Summer project is to help people with little or no knowledge of web development, and help them build their own projects
- Have translated all the webmaking 101 challenges and posted them for people to follow (amazing!) but looking for some more advanced challenges. Translated challenges can be found here: http://trisfera.com/atrium/general/node/241
- Chloe -> we're working on building more advanced ones, as well as hackasaurus challanges, but anyone is welcome to build their own.
- Alexis -> we're happy to help develop new, more advanced challanges
- En este taller el participante experimentará el proceso de concepción, organización y diseño de una página web. Al finalizar el taller el participante habrá concebido un sitio web original, reservado un dominio, elaborado un mapa del sitio y diseñado bosquejos para las ventanas más importantes.
- Preséntate -- Introduce yourself
- Elige el tema de tu sitio web -- Choose the topic of your website
- Elige el nombre de tu sitio web -- Choose the name of your website
- Organiza el contenido de tu sitio web -- Organize the content of your website
- Elabora la metáfora visual para tu sitio web
- Bosqueja tu sitio web
- UNDER DEVELOPMENT:
- Showcase items
- still missing Webcraft post... ( sorry for being so flakey with this >> we need to first find out what will be happening with School of Webcraft :/ Maybe it will not exist in the same context)
- this week: trisfera camp spotligh
- next week: excerpts from NaNoWriMo
- Agenda
- Hackasaurus Challenges
- Confirming that everything is ready for soft launch on Monday 16th
- Launch was postponed (we don't now the new dates yet)
- Put together a communication plan for launch
- Bekka -> I'm happy to help develop any text/plan for the launch communication (Thanks! Will involve you once that gets started)
- Update on OBI / P2PU integration plan [Sunny] (project manager for badges at Mozilla)
- We will touch base again with Brian at the end on January
- Our last update from him was that the API was undergoing in a considerable change on January so he recomended us to wait before updating https://github.com/zuzelvp/django-obi
- Input on cross-p2pu community Badges [Chloe] http://pad.p2pu.org/communitybadges
- Chloe has been preparing a survey to go out next week, to gather feedback for better challanges / badges/what people want for the future
- Right now, in discussions at SoW, it's possible to award badges between peers. (there are currently 3 different badges)
- Chloe would like input on the text that has been developed for badges and on other possible badges
- Please give feedback to Chloe via the pad, and email
- Philipp -> it's important for us all to make sure that they think about these badges, and they go to the core of what the interaction in our community.
- They're not peripheral, cute, things. They will drive what we think good peer learning is.
- Philipp -> I'm worried that people will get confused if we offer them too many, and if the differences between them aren't totally clear.
- Better to pick a few which make perfect sense to all of us, and then we can add more to the initial prototype
- Chloe -> We have actually prototyped these
- Philipp -> What did we learn from the prototype?
- The survey will help us understand what we learnt, at the moment, what we've learnt is anecdotal
- The evaluation will tell us how many people who have used them, and the system can tell us how many have been issued
- They require no extra development time
- Ask: Can we get some initial data (stats) before we do the survey, and share this with the community, then let them know that these numbers will form the basis of our future devleopment
- Bringing Chat back [Brylie]
- Philipp, John, Chloe and I talked about how to move this feature forward yesterday
- Agreed that we have other issues with the site that we should address first
- We will like to support volunteers who will want to take ownership of this feature
- Proposed that a volunteer could follow our current project pipeline methodology (Share wireframes with community list, Listen to feedback, make changes to design, Build prototype and get final community review, Test reliability, then ask Zuzel to merge)
- Zuzel: one update about the chat feature development is that we reached brylei and elf in case they can volunteer for developing this changes (waiting for reply from brylei) elf is busy so he can't take ownership but could work in small bits
- Blog
needs has static "about P2PU" text- Added a new section to the sidebar of http://blog.p2pu.org . Please review.
- Looks great!
- awesome thanks!!
- Maria: an update on Math Future:
- Planning a class for spring/fall on teaching for future math teachers, technology professionals and people who do online projects.
- Want to run it as a MOOC and will use the P2PU platform
- Might be useful to link up with Karen (School of ED) who knows a lot about teacher PF and can help get the word out
- School of Webcraft Future (very early stages of this discussion/thinking)
- SoW was something we developed with Mozilla, as a response to the lack of good teaching for web developers, Mozilla was interested in content, and we were interested in the learning philosophy stuff
- One of the problems from the start was ownership - was it Mozilla's? P2PU's? Who looks after the community?
- Mozilla is positioning themselves as the place that people who are webmakers (not just/only developers and learners) are oriented, and
- they focus on communities (hackasuarus, popcorn, Mojo etc) but there is no community of web developers.
- Question is, what to do with the web developers?
- Different scenarios
- Smaller concrete projects with projects within Mozilla
- Same as before (find a person to run the content/community side,)
- possible strong support for latin american leadership
- P2PU takes over
- Do we want to be a place where web developers go? probably not, Mozilla is a better place for them
- Alison -> concerned about what will happen when/if Mozilla remove their branding from P2PU SoW, which is such a strong space within our community, and a source of a lot of the cool stuff that happens within P2PU, independent of any staff activity
- Philipp -> This will not happen - there is no plan to "remove" their branding. We will continue to work with Mozilla in various ways including some form of Webcraft.
- Alison -> it would be nice if the community of users has a voice in whatever happens to the community, and the decision isn't only made at the high level
- Alexis: Lots of energy coming from South and Central America - focused on web development and open web development
- For example Trisfera is committed to supporting training for open web skills, as an alternative to the closed proprietary training options that exist elsewhere
- Would be sad if the webcraft side goes away
- Plan to keep using P2PU as long as possible
- Is there something that School of Webcraft can do to help groups like Alexis' lives easier/better?
- Blog post was helpful
- Can give more feedback as the summercamp gets more advanced
- Would some form of "recognition" (formal role, e.g. "Webcraft Ambassador") help?
January 5th
- Attendees
- Alison
- Bekka
- Brylie
- Chloe
- John
- Philipp
- Zuzel
- Standups
- Alison
- Bekka
- Following up some workshop payments
- Contracting
- Insurance paperwork (oh, the glamour of it all)
- Chloe
- John
- Hiring
- Designer
- Hired Aleks, waiting on contracts (thanks Bekka)
- Part time
- Developer
- Technical screening process
- 10+ interviews this week
- John has asked people who are viable hires to join the community call and set up a dev environment
- Consolidation of Courses / Study Groups / Challenges
- Email to community for input, closes in one week
- Will send recommendation next week
- Brandbook finished
- Philipp
- DML proposal draft 1
- Assessment paper review
- Preparing for budget review board meeting in Jan
- Cyberlab project letter of support
- Zuzel
- Moving forward with the development for the Hackasaurus launch (16 january)
- Found etherpad admin password in a conf file and disabled chat ping +1!
- Alan (absent)
- Met with someone from Second Muse (organizers of Random Hacks of Kindness) about helping with promotion / possible sponsorship of Design Thinking course. Possibly interested in pursuing another course called the Blank Slate Project (designing a system of ethics from the ground up). They also offered help with organizing hackathons if needed and space in Berlin if we want (Beta House).
- Met with Ashoka U and getting ready for the workshop in Feb. Love the idea of the Peer Masters and talking now about it being a three-level program with a Peer Bachelors, Peer Masters, and Peer PhD, possibly interest in co-branding some level of that.
- Goals for this week:
- Meet John in NYC to go over strategy for Design Thinking and the wireframes
- Finally send Microgrant App (sorry...)
- Figure out what the proposal I'm putting in for OEW looks like by Jan 20
- New Courses
- UNDER DEVELOPMENT:
- MAYBE:
- OTHER:
- Ali is working with the community and seeing continual creation of "courses" and "study groups" that would benefit from the challenge model
- would like to see all formats look like a challenge but organizer can choose name - "study group" "course" "challenge" to suit their expectations
- People using P2PU to create study groups for certification and exams - would be nice to design template for this use since it's so common
- Quiz functionality may be beneficial to help participants prepare and organizers to validate progress
- Showcase items
- webcraft will go up
- NaNoWriMo
- Brandbook & Logo Updates [John]
- mail sent to community
- colours have been updated, so that it works better on a white background
- Is there a color palette (hex color scheme?) publicly available?
- Rather than being a font, the logo is drawn with blocks
- Fonts are in the dropbox, but can't be publicly posted, since we had to pay for them, so any community member wanting to use them, will need to speak to a staff member, who will be able to help them out. (this has to do with different licenses for different weights, John can clarify if anyone has any questions)
- What needs to be updated?
- Blog
- Letterhead
- Website
- Twitter icon
- FB page
- Run a seminar/call on challenges and get community to set up challenges [Philipp]
- Idea is to run a short, 10 (20? 30?) minute live workshop for people within the community to learn how to create, design and run a challenge
- could use the weekly call time, for the live session, but push it out to the wider community further.
- Get feedback from the community on the materials Chloe has created already, and see how they are used
- Chloe: maybe it would be good to have a semi-regular webinar format?
- PS: Webinars are great (an online version of the mini challenge creation events Chloe is working on with John)
- Open formats, provide transcripts please
- If the webinar materials are archived publicly - a i see, yes ofcourse. so eventually people could run their own :-)
- PS: But would use the community call for first one
- also a good way to get people onto the call, which is something we want
- Challenge creation and stewardship
- Community actively validating badge submissions.
- It may be helpful if badge submissions are mutable, as requirements change and peer feedback may suggest improvements.
December 29th
- Attendees
- Alison
- Bekka
- Philipp
- Brylie
- Zuzel
- Standups
- Alison
- Bekka
- finished recon, invoicing for workshop (applaus!)
- talking to non-profit suite accountants
- waiting for bank details in order to pay them
- planning newsletter
- general admin
- John
- Talking about dev position, a few more applications have come in
- might hire a student intern developer
- Nobody in the community followed up on the potential designer position, but we have 1 application and will be ready to move on that soon.
- Philipp
- end of year blog post - will go up this week
- open fiction project proposal (in conjuction with Steve Carson at MIT)
- Find a person to become the co-ordinator, with the objective of building a community
- Plan is to keep this is a very small project
- article on open education framework
- Overall look at the open ed space.
- Zuzel
- challenge sets http://alpha.p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-webcraft/ - this is a new feature
- task inline badge submissions http://alpha.p2pu.org/en/groups/test-webmaking-101-4/content/task3/ - this is a new feature
- Can we inline challenges into standard course tasks?
- Can we integrate the 'good feedback' badge into task discussion posts?
- Similarly, the "publishing" badge would be helpful to affirm participants' efforts in courses. This badge exists. http://p2pu.org/en/badges/publishing/
- Zuzel ->
- Sections displaying info about badges inside the challenges needs to be extended to be available for courses
- We need to decide how the association of badges/courses will happen at a bigger scale:
- have some badges that are associated to all courses by default
- implement the UI for courses to choose a subset of the available badges
- In the case of the Publishing Badge it is a badge awarded for being able to install an FTP or SFTP client, upload content that is visible live in a browser.
- Another name, description and image will be needed for badges to affirm participants efforts in courses
- Could also need another awarding mechanism (not necessarily)
- Chloe will be the person to talk about this changes
- full details for new set of metrics to track -- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Metrics
- OBI (Open Badges Infrastructure) integration on hold (the issuer api will be changing on january)
- New Courses
- nothing READY this week
- UNDER DEVELOPMENT:
- MAYBE:
- Showcase items
- webcraft year end post???
- Philipp year end post
- NaNoWriMo reflections: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/nanowrimo-2012/
- Ali working with this group (some participants wrote a novel!) to get a follow-up article
- Some of the novels are really funny - all members should check them out!
- Links to some of the top ones would be great (with a short
- Other Agenda Items
- P2PU Design Brandbook
- Aleks (John's friend and designer) put together a brandbook
- Currently being updated with last changes
- John will properly present in one of the next calls
- Proposed Hub DC / P2PU Collaboration?
- Being driven by Alan Webb, general idea is to work with the Hub (a collection of co-working space) who want to try and run courses on and offline
- Toronto meeting not happening
- Trying to find a good time to meet, nothing decided yet.
- Email to community about last weeks discussion on challenges (getting rid of study group/course)?
- Very important and will definitely hit community list (and this call again)
- JB has been sick
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December 22nd
- Attendees
- Zuzel
- John
- Alan
- Alison
- Brylie
- Chloe
- Philipp
- Standups
- Alison
- Bekka (late)
- Last of the workshop recon
- workig on marketing materials
- Chloe
- UX-athon > Updates with Arlton for Challenge Improvements
- Challenges HackJam Blogpost with Recap here http://bit.ly/tyWPaB
- John
- Hiring Developer
- 1:1 Calls with people requesting mentors
- Contacting badge reviewers - these aren't mentors necessarily
- (send list of p2pu user names to zuzel, so that she can assign mentor status for them, then their vote counts 3 times)
- Jobs page
- Philipp
- Budget 2012
- Prep for board meetings
- Challenges project
- School of Data proposal to Shuttleworth Foundation
- Invoices ;-) & Payments :-(
- Zuzel
- At the Challenges/Hackasaurus Hackjam with Chloe last week -- http://www.zythepsary.com/challenges/mission.html
- Working on the cards at the Hackasaurus board
- Luis: Challenge Sets
- Atul: Linking to Hackasaurus challenge with postMessage back
- Zuzel: Inline badge application at challenge tasks
- Alan
- Hub Collaboration brewing for a "Design Thinking for Social Innovators" course to launch at OEW
- Preping for Ashoka U Exchange Feb 10-11 - Laura White will launch open "Engaged Learning in Education" course (because Tulane's faculty senate rejected it for lack of funding!) and Alan will lead a workshop
- Starting to map out conferences to pursue for 2012: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoU5Z8p_DphkdF9WMEpNVGtKZDdUV2llNUFIY09oYVE
- Working on Rio +20 contacts (went to NYC last week for intersessional)
- Working on Bioneers App
- Showcase items
- need Mozilla year end blog post @john will you help with sow post?
- Need P2PU year in review blog post [Philipp]
- CV: Naming challenges that are grouped together - how should we name/describe them?
- Set +1 +1+1+1 +1 > ok we will use that for now.
- Pack
- Path
- Quest
- Mission
- Channel
- Discussion:
- We had a prior discussion about trying to converge study groups, courses, and challenges into one thing [yes, totally agree and would love to discuss this separate - but this is for a number of challenges/courses/groups that are put together]
- Platforms such as Flexbooks (ck12.org), Booki (booki.cc) and ConneXions (cnx.org) allow teachers/creators to re-mix and integrate content from various resource 'modules', other books for example. I.e. the challenges could be mixed into another learning path (or set).
- Question: if is set for example will it be Challenge Set? What Happens when we want to join Courses, Study Groups, and Challenges in a Set?
- I think this is VERY important: Generally we should try and avoid jargony names for things - explain jargony
- words that we have to teach to our users... ie they don't already understand them
- John Question: Who makes this sets? right now we are testing
- first step: siteadmin
- second step: schools to groups their challenges/schools
- next: anyone (much later, we should see how this works)
- Course / Challenge / Study Group Converging
- Study groups & challenges lack structure that challenges provide - essentially course + challenge aren't philosophically different.
- AC would like to see study group & course options dissapear from P2PU altogether
- AW seconds the suggestion to make the challenges functionality part of the synchrnous experience of running a course. +1
- BO: I think that challenges should converge into the general course context as a content type rather than their own seperate course type. +1
- BO: I like having modular options (e.g. challenge, discussion, multimedia, eBook, wiki page, etc) within a greater course context (or set).
- AC: suggests only challenges at P2PU,
- PS: seconds this idea, people seem to understand the word course much better even if it's following the async model etc
- A Challenge [P2PU course] is a fun way to learn with your peers at your own pace. A Challenge [P2PU course] begins with a problem that you are asked to solve. In order to do so you have to move through different tasks, take on a role, work with your peers and most importantly "make things" all while earning badges that highlight both your technical and community super powers.
- CV: joined P2PU to create models for assessing deeper learning.
- A key issue in assessment is the idea of solving problems as a way to learn.
- The inquiry-based approach makes a challenge a problem that needs to be solved.
- ZV: Currently the descriptions that exist for users are just a few sentences that need to be improved upon.
- The first-step in the course-creation process is the point at which that information, which differentiataes courses/challenges etc is given to users.
- JB: people like the words that they're familiar with. (should be careful not to be too "traditional" though)
- JB: Suggests
- Course / Set- ordered list of what we now call challenges, any user can create
- Lesson / Course - what we now call an individual challenge (Lesson is very much something one-directional where you get taught, module is also well understood but less top-down) (I don't love this name either) (how about: You can start either with just "creating a badge challenge" or "creating a course." If you create a course, you may want to create challenges *within* that course that can allow you to earn badges.)
- Style - if we decide to keep multiple types of groups
- Styles "nameless" - idea is conveyed directly +1
- synchronous/not
- facilitator/expert/not
- f2f/not
- Differentiation happens depending on whether the activity is run synchronosly, asynchronously, has a "leader" or is something that can be done on by an individual.
- Course/studygroup/challange is replaced and becomes "Course" and then people choose a style.
- PS: To get started, we can use course (to replace course/challenge/group) and the different styles
- Brylie: it's worth not partitioning the educational content right at the beginning of the course, becuase a lot of the attributes (e.g. number of participants) of the course will emerge as the course takes shape (i.e. black swan, hindsight bias, retrospect awareness)
- JB: what if this happened when the course gets "published" - so you only need to make that decision at the end of the course creation process.
- PS: Are we trying to solve too many problems with this? Right now the difference between courses and challenges is quite significant, and perhaps the decision will answer some of these questions.
- TODO: JB to summarize and report back with recommendation based on discussion.
- focus on things that seem to have broad agreement and incremental improvements going forward
- consider dev effort
- Current description in the Site
- Study Group -- group of people working collaboratively to acquire and share knowledge.
- Course -- led by one or more organizers with skills on a field who direct and help participants during their learning.
- Challenge -- series of tasks peers can engage in to develop skills.
- 1) Improve those sentences
- 2) Include a First Step in the creation process that just involves the selection of the learning model and give a lot more information.
- CV: Workshops / Challenge Creation Jams
- Really great to be able to meet people in person, and work at the hack meetups
- Suggestion: that we have more challenge jams, small events, not a big deal, just for a few hours
- Alan had the same idea separately
- Q: Is there a way to do this online/virtual as well?
- Q: This is a good idea. How can we support this? Someone takes the lead :) We could create a pack for running your own challenge creation jam and then anyone can do it. Set some dates for the first ones. Do we need funding? if we need to fly people maybe, but i would say for now low budget, in the places we are located we run a challenge creation jam
- Detail to follow for the January one
- Bekka: Do we need another/melded form of communications - a weekly newsletter, with new courses folded into it? Or should we keep them separate?
- PS: Ok bekka, let's be a little more out there with the writing. i'm up for that.
- maybe we come up with a few sections
- recent blog posts
- events
- courses
- community member profile
- showcase items
- aggregate statistics about community activities (# of participants, challenges completed, new course enrollments, etc.) Could possibly be generated automatically from analytics.
- Bekka & Philipp can try start writing them together
- Wednesdays are the new newsletter days.
- Will consider twice a month if it's too much work (and we don't have enough cool stuff)
- AJC: New Years Resolution for community members - bring new friend/neighbor into P2PU
- It has to be somebody you know!
- And you tell us about them in the community call in January?
- AJC: Timing for promotions monthly vs. semester [Moved to next call]
- When is the next call. Everyone up for next week or January?
- John - I'm in next week +1
- Bekka
- Philipp
- Brylie
- Zuzel
- Alison
___________________________________________________________________________
December 15th
Agenda:
- Attendees
- Standups
- Alison
- promotional cycle starts JAN
- need to bulk up P2PU with new courses for this
- Will combine with a big call via facebook and twitter
- If we do this over the holidays, we need to have a plan for managing any hassles that might arise
- Ali: if we can get people to just sign up now (december)
- then the creation of courses can take place after the holidays, with more hands-on help in mid-January
- re-designing DIY U for new year w/ 2 new volunteers
- experimenting with challenges
- breaking down the DIY U book for challenge model
- need a way for learners to show what they've done/learnt
- been largely absent this week. family matters. apologies.
- Bekka
- Marketing text being written
- General admin
- set up p2pu flickr
Chloe (Toronto Challenge Hackjam)- John
- Django Developer
- 8 Applicants so far, and they're still coming
- stackoverflow applications aren't as high-quality as some of the others
- John has interviews with 2 college students who are interested
- Anyone with connections to open source groups, please spread the word (without being spammy!)
- 2 interviews today
- Free posting from Stack Overflow
- Going out this weekend in a few newsletters
- Included in P2PU weekly email
- Webmaking 101 - Revising content
- P2PU in Swedish - DONE yay! awesome!
- help@p2pu.org is getting a lot more traffic
- Philipp
- Proposals proposals proposals
- DML Competition Phase II - Submit an "issuer tech" proposal
- NSF - School of Games
- IRRODL - article review
- Budgets for 2012
- Year end invoices
Zuzel (Toronto Challenge Hackjam)
- Common Misuse: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/natiormazabal/
- People often create a course that is an expression of what they want to learn, like it's a profile page
- This could be experimentation, or they could be confused
- Most often a case with english 2nd langauge users (we think)
- Is this a navigation problem? Are we using the wrong verbs?
- Brylie -> could we have an onboarding process where experienced users could help? Or there is an automated / video explanation of how to sign up
- We've discussed this (hybrid approach) in the past, if it's an automated system, a mentor could help with sticking points
- Showcase items:
- Wanting year-end reviews from Schools + P2PU recap. Will post consecutively once ready.
- Promotional cycle begins JAN.
- Open Education Week (March 5-10 2012) / What is P2PU's contribution?
- There will be quite a lot of mainstream media in US/Europe of this
- Global meetups (24 hours of peer learning)
- local meetups, tech sprints,
- Philipp - I'll do one in Austin, TX (SXSW)
- Bekka - will do one in either London or JHB
- John: Keen to do one wherever he may be (SXSW)
- Niels - something / somewhere
- Provide a pre-recorded informational virtual tour of your project, work, or organization.
- live walk-throughs & videos
- Offer a webinar with live Q&A
- Pre-record a presentation on open education concepts.
- On the future of open education
- Need ideas for presentations and seminars that people WANT to do
- Challenges - Eliminating barriers in online learning (John)
- Opportunity to launch a "big" round of courses during the week
- Brylie -> put a request out for help with the Geospatial course, some people suggested having a concurrent online and real-time course
- Interested in BBB
- OpenEduWeek will use a different system, because it's free (donated) and BBB would have charged 15k USD to support the expected demand
- DML Competition
- Phase 1 disappointments - CC and CERN proposals didn't make it through
- Phase 2 opportunities - build out existing prototype into turn-key platform
- Announcement: Interesting Learning Analytics Course (who should participate)?
- Who can make a walkthrough video for "challenges" incl. badges?
- Philipp spends a lot of time explaining what a challenge is and people don't get it - having a video I could share would help a lot
- NEXT STEPS: Alison & Chloe will work on this initially,
- the sooner the better - a rough version by early next week
- Badges and assessment need to be included
- P: will you send us an email with direct ask? This is it ;-) --> A short screencast that shows how the challenges work, incl. assessment and badges
- Brylie -> Anyone have any resources on mixing GFDL and some CC licenced content?b
- janepark@creativecommons.org
- Niels
- Expressions of interest for UK training courses in recycling for Local Authorities
- Niels has been talking to WRAP - a body in the UK - they have offered online and offline courses in a virtual learning environment
- Niels has discussed working with them to provide the social wrapper to create something like a school of resource efficiency
- They have some questions about the liscening, but it's not an inhibition
- (WRAP) School of resource efficiency?
- Next steps:
- Expression of interest will be up in January, once it's up, Niels will call on the community for help
- In the meantime, we need to think about ways to help - and how to create a school and build a community around the school
- Niels will take responsibility for the tender