Discussion

• Agreeements
  • What do we want to get out of these agreements -> overall goals for these agreements (recap of conversation yesterday)
  • AB: For now - focus on agreements between organizations
  • DB: Make sure the agreement represents a commitment and its enforceable
• Given that P2PU itself is a community - how do we infuse that into the design of partnerships for schools? How do we manage input into community norms of schools and make sure they stay on track with our vision?
  • What is our community? Can we help the schools with learning or content expertise? 
  • Include values in partnership agreements
• Goals for trademarks
  • Protect the name of a school - and the values that are underlying the school
  • Build the P2PU brand
  • There is some value attached to the name
  • Who invests more time and effort into a school to make it work?
    • Philipp: Based on experience with existing schools, it has to be the partner or the school won't work. School of Maths. School of SoSI. School of Webcraft.
    • Yes, and I also think that most "Schools" probably do not need to be TMed. It really depends on whether we imagine the School growing into a sufficiently large community which would benefit from greater certainty regarding the core values of that School.
    • PS: Do you see our key role as the guardian of the "values"? (e.g. open, community, peer-learning) AB: Yes, I do. Keep it at a high level.
    • AB: By the way, if we called all of the various schools "P2PU School of....", then no additional trademark would probably be needed.
      • That brings us back to that discussion ;-) Is it the P2PU School of Data or the OKFN School of Data or the OKFN/P2PU School of Data?
  • Do we want to own the trademarks for schools?
    • 1000 USD / trademark and it's work setting it up
    • Ahrash: I think we should have more ownership over schools structures -> own the trademark.
    • Nadeem: Relationship betwen P2PU and partners needs to be formalized and we should own trademarks. If it is not formalized, there is a chance that we get lost in the narrative. For example badges. CNXCON discussion no mention of P2PU. 
    • Delia: Badges example is demonstrating some of the issues. Yes to ownership of trademarks
• What do we need to add to the charter documents to make them complete partnership agreements?
• Partnerships - Schools - Sustainability: Ahrash has a poor sense how some of the decisions around partnership and schools development are playing into the broader sustainability question. We have talked off and on, whether or not schools as a construct provide a path to sustainability, and what does that mean? How do schools bring in income? Would like to see the link back to sustainability. 

What are the broad roles overall? 

• P2PU:
  • Learning
  • Platform
  • Models of facilitation
  • Assessment
  • Alternative certification

• Partners / What we look for in our partners:
  • Content expertise
  • Community leadership in the content area of the school
  • Authoritative voice in their community
  • Large networks and reach to attract users

Partnership Development Process

• Likely to start as informal collaboration. 
• At the point that P2PU makes a commitment to providing resources to support the partnership, an agreement is put in place

Draft Agreement

Schools are joint projects between P2PU and another organization or group. For each school partnership agreement defines the contours of the collaboration:

• Description of the school
  • Values
  • Purpose (Goals)
  • Scope (Content)
    • Examples of the types of courses, any other content scoping (language)
• Timeframe of the agreement
  • Specific number of years? (possibly tie to specific funding)
  • Or renewed regularly?
• Roles and responsibilities
  • P2PU -> Learning methodology, assessment, platform
    • Services we offer to build the schools
  • Partner -> Drive development of content & community
• Success metrics
• Sustainability
  • Initial funding
  • Commitment for joint fund-raising
• Trademarks (if applicable)
• Revenue sharing (if applicable)

Two example 'charter' documents:

• http://pad.p2pu.org/school-of-open
• http://pad.p2pu.org/webcraft-charter