24 January - P2PU Community Call
Seminar
A longer discussion, in which research may be presented, guests talk to us, Schools give us updates, special prjects are discussed. All are welcome, documentation will be shared, as well as any readings/videos/links distributed before and after the call. 

We will be using Google hangout for this call, at this address: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/7fb568f2c309f1c9a64a7551a2987a5a8cd0db51
We'll also be trying out the new Google Hangouts Caption App

Attendees

• mick - mickfuzz23@gmail.com
• dirk
• Bekka
• Nadeem (nadeem@p2pu.org)
• Chris
• Vanessa

Agenda

• 4 Ps and an i Report Back (written only)

• Progress
  • Vanessa is DONE with graduate school! +1 Hooray!
  • BADGES:
    • Kickoff call, wireframes underway, should start building 1/30
  • DML: Vanessa is in Los Angeles to present what we're doing
    • Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/VanessaGennarelli/2013-update-p2pu-badges
  • Working on keeping the wheels running (that includes the etherpads :)
    • meet marvin: https://github.com/p2pu/marvin
  • Learner Bill of Rights 
    • Hacked on here -> https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/11kl-ngaGYA7R3P-2-nfVjEYbA5fJ9Gv67J9Ggx3GAkk/edit
    • Featured in Chronicle (without P2UP quote) and Inside Higher Ed (with P2PU quote)
  • Teaching and Learning with Social Media: http://beta.p2pu.org/en/courses/27/teaching-and-learning-with-social-media/
  • Media Lab Course - Learning Creative Learning (almost ready for announcement)
  • Made lots of great Mustard at Festival of Learning -- http://fol2013.media.mit.edu/

• Priorities
  • Badges, badges, badges
  • School of Data regroup
  • New course UX release
    • Aiming for next week for the release
    • Dirk and Vanessa to talk about processes for badges to discuss integrating this with the new UX
    • Philipp: we should tell our community that we're going to chnage things about a week before we do it
      • But we shouldn't make it a huge thing, becuase it's not a major change
  • Blogs for the week: 
  • Open Ed Week planning 
    • Can we do a soft release and then plan to make things huge and public to co-incide with DLM presnetation and badge launch and Open Ed Week
  • Mick: have been planing to do a call out to the FLOSS manuals community to work on content durig that time, to help school of open
  • Next newsletter round
  • Launch Media Lab course - Learning Creative Learning
  • Keynote (in German) at Co:laboraty in Berlin "Why the MIT Media Lab doesn't like online courses"--LOL

• Problems
• Process
• Ideas

Discussion


=== [Dirk] Some stats (in the form of pictures :) ===

• info.p2pu.org weekly unique visitors: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79237959@N02/8410482585/in/photostream/
• info.p2pu.org daily unique visitors: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79237959@N02/8411579122/in/photostream
• p2pu.org weekly unique visitors: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79237959@N02/8410482063/in/photostream - This one is pretty awesome!!!
• Dirk and/or Bekka--can we drill down into more visible/granular numbers? Total number of hits, shares, etc/day?
  • BK: I can provide stats for the blog & newsletter for next week. 
  • Dirk - we should think deliberatly about the numbers we want to share
  • It's about textures not hard numbers

=== [Philipp] Grant (Grunt) Funding for Non Profits (and P2PU in particular)  ===

Rough outline:

Each Funder is different
* Process of getting funding (how complicated, how long does it take?)
* How involved they like to be in projects
* Reporting requirements vary
* Flexibility of project goals

Examples - Funders (not all P2PU)
* Hewlett Foundation
* Shuttleworth Foundation
* NFS - National Science Foundation
* MacArthur

It's a dance
* Follow - Understand where the funder comes from and where they are going
* Lead - Communicate your plans and goals and interests
* Enjoy yourself / Don't force it

Grant funding vs. customer revenue
* You are still selling something to someone
* Your ability to communicate ideas in ways that make sense to funders

Challenges
* Delays between idea, proposal, project
* Funders <> users (<> beneficiaries)
* Reporting takes time and energy (and nobody likes it)
* Grant funding is relatively inflexible
* There is a need to evolve to attract new funding (funders like new things)

How to get funding:
* Invest in relationships with your funders
* Test ideas early on in conversation (first with friends) 
* Get good at describing your idea
* Only write a full proposal if you have a high chance of success

Mick: Can be a lot of work to make contact to the funders to build those relationships, It's nice to have introductions from partners in the similar areas. This is working quite well for us with a new network video 4 change - v4c.org

Mick asked:Is it easier to get funding for new innovative ideas? rather than Content for existing platforms?
P: Everyone wants to fund new things. Content funding is particularly difficult.


=== [Mick] School of Free Software 2 pager from FLOSS Manuals  - http://www.clearerchannel.org/share/school_of_free_software2.odt ===

• Status - partners like it but no time gone into identifying suitable funders yet. - Mick may revise it to make it more innovative and less focused on content creation and welcomes other feedback on potential funders.