P2PU Community Call 
25 April 2013
  
 
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 Attendees

• Vanessa
• Bekka
• Erika
• Tim G
• Philipp
• Billy
• Dirk

Agenda

4Ps and and I reportback from staff

• Progress (what we've been working on)
  • Bekka: First draft of berlin report design is in - ready for feedback soon
  • School of Ed Report
  • Spoke to OKFN about data policy
    • What are next steps on this?
  • School of Data Mooc Week 2
  • Assessment Principles are being massaged into some semblance of meaning
  • Lots of feedback giving, which is lovely and makes Mozz's heart warm in this cold, cold Germany city
  • Board meeting (Fri)
    • report back next thur
  • Media Lab Fellows workshop (Sun)
  • MIT Media Lab members meeting (Mon-Tue)
  • Philipp met Peter Gabriel (and is meeting the owner of LEGO today) - did you stay cool, calm and collected? (I did)
  • P2PU Narrative/Pitch (how do we explain what we do, and why it's important, better)
  • Course notifications halfway done - sending possible but opt-out this in progress
  • Stress testing Mechanical MOOC signup
• Priorities (focus next week)
  • Trying to pay our insurance
  • Finish School of Ed report
  • Newsletter (anyone have anything they want included?)My blog post, pls :) --  it's front and centre already!
    • Did anyone let the community list know about the blog post?
  • Badge updates pushed
    • some testing feedback needed! http://dev.p2pu.org:8199/oauth/become/ + your name (no spaces)
    • create a badge
    • try to push it to backpack (from dashboard, u can only push eaned badges) - It may not work if your mail so something different than your name@p2pu.org but this is only development server (have to have backpack on mozilla)
  • Board meeting documentation (report back)
  • Hewlett proposal (probably focused around sustained engagement / persistence)
  • Gente Introduction to Python signup from 2 May
  • Get a P2PU Discourse instance running 
• Problems (walls we ran into on the way)
  • Mailgun. He's a difficult beast. (this was mentioned in the tech call also)
• Process (org stuff)
  • Course highlights
  • VMG is helping to throw a kids hackathon: http://blog.opentechschool.org/2013/04/first-kids-hackathon-in-berlin.html
  • VMG is starting a research project on informal tech learning in a cross-cultural perspective: https://github.com/mozzadrella/Informal-Tech-Project
  • DU away from 27 April until 7 May--nooooooooo
  • EP is in Berlin from 1st to 8th - not available on 1th and 8th
• Ideas (on the horizon)
  • Blog posts for next week

Discussion

At the Cockpit: How the Data Explorer Mission Works: https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1IOM_Ybdo_nFb_mU9tjcLPKWZEPD1usHo5pj5fHTIFdY/edit

• Great overview.
• We should promote via community list / blog, and link to the point in the video where VMG starts

Notes from chat:

Billy Meinke
4:15 PM
yes, CC0 puts the data essentially into the public domain, no attribution or anything required
Bekka Kahn left group chat.

Vanessa Gennarelli
4:16 PM
And thats something we want to think about

Philipp Learn
4:18 PM
In general, attribution is really helpful for us to build a reputation / credibility.

Vanessa Gennarelli
4:18 PM
+1
philipp just doesnt want to deal with attorneys

Erika Pogorelc
4:20 PM
wise man!

Dirk Uys
4:21 PM
we have IPs and emails
hand
congrats

me
4:23 PM
Woohoo

Billy Meinke
4:23 PM
thanks 

Vanessa Gennarelli
4:24 PM
https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1IOM_Ybdo_nFb_mU9tjcLPKWZEPD1usHo5pj5fHTIFdY/edit

Billy Meinke
4:26 PM
"I can count to potato"

me
4:27 PM
philipp speaks for all of us...
who is nate silver?

Timothy Gaudette
4:28 PM
I don't understand why I'm an elephant but I'll just accept it

Philipp Learn
4:28 PM
data person - good at predicting stuff

Billy Meinke
4:28 PM
predicted the US election

me
4:28 PM
Aaaaah. Gotcha.
@Timothy - I might be the dinosaur...
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me
4:31 PM
Hi Mick

Dirk Uys
4:31 PM
hey Mick

Billy Meinke
4:31 PM
morning Mick

me
4:31 PM
We're looking at Vanessa's presentation on School of Data:

Dirk Uys
4:31 PM
https://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/document/d/1IOM_Ybdo_nFb_mU9tjcLPKWZEPD1usHo5pj5fHTIFdY/edit

Billy Meinke
4:31 PM
the badges look great

Dirk Uys
4:31 PM
thats the link to the doc

Mick Fuzz
4:31 PM
hi there - billy

Vanessa Gennarelli
4:35 PM
http://schoolofdata.org/syllabus-for-data-explorer-mission-1/

Mick Fuzz
4:36 PM
sorry for that monday morning message !

Dirk Uys
4:37 PM
and we now love mailgun

me
4:37 PM
Philipp loves to format documents

Erika Pogorelc
4:39 PM
Is there a reason they were slow?

me
4:39 PM
Taxonomies!
hand

Philipp Learn
4:41 PM
i LOVE that!

Vanessa Gennarelli
4:41 PM
agree
agreeeeeeeeeeee

Erika Pogorelc
4:42 PM
no way!
evidence please?

me
4:43 PM
That will be lovely

Philipp Learn
4:44 PM
Hand
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Dirk Uys
4:47 PM
vanessa zipped through it

Vanessa Gennarelli
4:47 PM
lolz

Timothy Gaudette
4:47 PM
sunshine 2 weeks in a row?!

Billy Meinke
4:47 PM
ha!
uh oh