P2PU Community Call - General progress Report
06 December 2012
Attendees:
- Vanessa
- Bekka
- Chris
- Dirk is at Google and jetlagged (he's coming!) he's here
- Philipp
- Leah
4Ps and an I report back from staff
- Progress
- Meeting with Lucy from School of Data on direction [VMG]
- DML Quarterly Report [VMG]
- Use Case for Dirk/Googlehangout [VMG]
- "An Ethical Introduction to Data Visualization" for School of Data [VMG]
- Communications rethink (timing, type, overall sound) [BK]
- Technovation challenge [BK]
- General "reachout" (ugh, hate that phrase) to active users [BK]
- A mountain of email [BK]
- MOOC donation thankyous - we've receved over $200 so far
- Bringing a Media Lab course online (Mitch Resnick's Creative Learning Technologies)
- It could become more than one, but for now, just this one - for educators who are building ways of taking technology into the classroom
- Philipp: keen to use google+ tools for this
- If the badges review project platform and the writing MOOC are far along enough we can tie them in
- There might also be opportunities to work with MIT Digital Learning, a new group at MIT intended to scale learning innovation
- They are interested in look at the stuff that P2PU is doing at the media lab as a place for more radical prototyping and experimentation, with an eye to scale.
- Badges project planning
- MOOController
- Working on Tech Plan for 2013, but maybe not yet taking into account other stuff? [DU]
- Priorities
- DML Planning (Jan 2013)
- Assessment Manifesto
- MOOC data analysis with June
- A little less online next week - schoolwork [BK]
- Blog posts - Music Hackday, MOOController, Art of Learning ...
- Problems
- Increased spam on the helpdesk this week? [BK]
- But I zapped it. Love the reply by email with spam in the first line feature.
- Process
- I miss the state of the mustard--how is p2pu.org doing with traffic and such?
- Internal communication - I need to know what's going on in more detail in order to spread the word [BK]
- How can we improve this?
- Share drafts of what we are working on
- Ideas
Agenda
- Plan 2013 / Mission planning for 2013
- Without the usual November meeting/workshop this year, it would be good to have some 2013 Mission planning
- Proposal: we should talk about how we want to have the discussion and then find a time in the next week or two to make it happen online.
- What did we like about projects / work we did in 2012 - What do we want to do more of?
- How do we approach new projects in 2013?
- What are the implications on our technology strategy?
- DU: Even if the plan hasn't changed that much since July, it would be good to even hear and talk through what our plan is again.
- CE: I always wonder whether we really have competitors and what this means for strategic planning, and I wonder what everyone thinks about this and what it might mean for us
- Suggestion: Partner more to reach more.(Leah) +1 Also, focus on empty spaces, where someone is needed.
- DU: If people are addressing the same problem as us, that doesn't necessarily make them a competitor, we want P2PU to be something that people know about and recognise, but we don't want to kill another initiative
- VMG: suggestion: that we look back at 2012 and look forward to 2013, with less focus on "shortfalls" but more focus on future plans
- NEXT STEPS: Collect burning questions here, Philipp will take them and share with community to kick start a discussion
- Should we prototype, experiment, innovate MORE?
- What should our general technology/platform plan?
- How do we know we are successful?
- Are the original values still the right ones? The only ones?
- How do we feel accomplished or successful? Are we telling success stories?
- What is our content strategy for engaging our audience.
- Has our idea of what/who our audience is, changed?
- Are we still doing what we want/love/are excited about doing? If so, how do we keep it working, and if not, what needs to change?
- Blogging strategy
- Suggested content strategy: start with a blank calendar and fill it in with your ideas: this is interested-driven, project-based, opt-in
- Blog Party: Idea nicked from Katie Del Angel at Confab last June: http://www.slideshare.net/ISITEDesign/confab-lightning-talk-the-first-100-days
- Suggestion: Can the blog post titles be posted on the homepage of P2PU?
- They are- but at the bottom... ah - yes, that should be addressed
- Like, at the top right or left- and like a *Super* callout box. Sorry to keep cming back to Evernote, but they have their link at the top: https://evernote.com/ which reminds me that they have one when I log in.
- They used to be - perhaps the feed is broken?
- Blogging - so far VMG is the only one who blogs. I'm going to start harassing people...[BK]
- Philipp should cross post to info.p2pu.org--he only posts to sharingnicely (Will do!)
- Maybe set the next call to be a content strategy party? We set up a calendar, and people fill in when they are going to post with what topic?
- That would be great, although I am very aware of not wanting to force people to create bumph
- Dunno BK--I think part of our description was "love your job and show it"? Maybe blog posts are part and parcel of that req?
- Totally. But it should have value
- VMG: taking a wider view is actually less nudgy than requiring a post every week, and speaks more to deciding what kind of information we want to feed out when
- PS: Projects should have communication strategies associated with them, and this is different to "what's happening" type messages
- Next steps:
- Philipp to start posting on info.p2pu.org
- Dirk will write a blog post about the Google meeting
- Chris is already writing two posts - Music Hackday, MOOControler
- Should we use Google Hangouts for community calls?
- Pros:
- Feel more engaging
- We can record the meetings to YouTube (maybe this is a negative :) No, this is a plus for anyone who missed it.
- Cons:
- Need G+ account (unless just watching HangOut on Air)
- Bandwidth?
- Leah sits in an ugly office in the basement in a cubicle, typical of most IT folks in most organizations. =Some folks might feel uncomfortable in that scenario where a call can be just on the phone.
- School of Open Badges
- Leah needs more feedback: http://leahmacvie.com/2012/12/open-badges-graphic-redesign-attempt-2/
- This was done using the feedback that I got from the community last week.
- Based on the feedback, I've tried to make it more "serious" and Peter will be helping on the programmer side, and has made comments on the font etc, so there is a reupdate as well - all feedback is welcome!
- Will be jumping onto the beta site towards the end of the week, and experimenting with that
- And have used a "serious" flower!