7 May 2013
P2PU Semi-Staff Call
Attendees:
Agenda
- Data license
- PS: Makes sense to speak to someone at CC and someone at OKFN to ask them what they think
- CC -> Jessica Coates/ maybe Tim Volmer BK to speak to Jessica first
- OKFN -> ? Rufus (ask for referral)
- Discourse (http://p2pu-discourse.herokuapp.com/)
- All staff have profiles now
- We had discussed using as a pilot among staff
- VMG suggestion: we need to talk about workshop planning, let's use Discourse for this
- PS: What are we trying to use this for?
- VMG: We're trying to infuse communication with more personality and context
- This happens mostly on the community call
- There isn't much context on the community list
- EP: The problem with community lists is that you're never sure who your're speaking to, who is reading it, users are not keen to bother people.
- PS: CAn we replace internal emails with Discourse?
- Becuase it might be confusing if some conversations take place on the google group and some take place in Discourse
- PS: we need to make the discussions we use to test this important enought to really test it.
- So, suggestion is: every message staff send should by default be using discourse
- VMG will send a message to the community list letting them know that the community list will be added as a subscriber for the duration of the trial period. Staff will take a look at VMGs mail before it goes out
- Communicating why we're doing this and how is very NB
- Trial period lasts for a month
- Workshop planning
- We have a bit of budget -> 15k USD
- Focus of the workshop -> MOOCs, P2PU Strategy (Lab, Platform, Schools), Org/Staff/HR
- Knowledge sharing between MOOCs, peer assists, hacking on curriculum, improving tools
- P2PU Strategy is about long-term goals/vision
- How long
- Who do we invite?
- P2PU:
- W Bekka (London)
- W Vanessa (Berlin, July 11 -> Brooklyn, Aug 15 -> St. Petersburg)
- W Erika (Ljublijana)
- W Dirk (Durban, June -> Chile)
- W Philipp (Boston)
- W Jane (possibly funded?)
- W Delia (Sydney)
- W Nadeem (UK)
- W Piet (Michigan)
- Maybe -> (Ahrash, Neeru...)
- MOOCs:
- Writing MOOC:
- Steve Carson (Boston)
- Steve's friend / organizer (ask Steve)
- Shaka Senghor (Detroit)
- NWP
- Music MOOC:
- W Chris (NY)
- Eric Rosenbaum (Boston)
- Offline MOOC:
- W Karen Fasimpaur (Arizona)
- Data MOOC
- Neil (Syracuse, NY) - ???
- Learning Creative Learning:
- Drew Harry (Boston) - Funded separately (?)
- ???
- Srishti Sethi (Boston)
- Tentative dates: 24- 28 July (first 1.5 days are MOOCs, then weekend retreat for P2PU strategy)
- Bekka - Finalize (tentative) invitation list (use above, rope Philipp in as needed)
- Bekka - Check tentative dates
- Bekka: Do a tentative budget (flights mainly)
- VMG - explore accomodation options for the weekend
- Location ideas: Boston, then Island/ Western Mass.
- Strategy - Team input
- Framing of Lab & Community may not be correct, becuase we will always be a community and not JPMorgan
- On one hand we build specific stuff and materials, on the other hand, we build tools for other people.
- PS: If we have success in 5 years time, what will that look like if we are one, or the other or both?
- VMG: If we concieve of our workflow/model as: prototype ->proof of concept ->build & release to a wider community, the missing component is support and documentation, we give very little direction.
- PS: What do we bring and to whom?
- EP: In the wider world, the lab would bring the money, and the community would be others.
- But doesn't the community grow the lab?
- VMG: We're more thinktank than platform
- Cross-subsidize community activities with income from the Lab
- Think-tank (=lab?) or platform
- VMG:
- maybe we need to think about including a sustainability component into the projects as we plan them
- P2PU is a timeline of events showing that we have had influence in this space as a small dynamic organisation
- EP: I think our courses are unclear, people don't know what they're doing, but if we could clarify that, and differentiate ourselves we could make a difference
- I'm thinking one of the ways we don't excel as a community is becuase we don't offer accreditation (badges are an option), but I think we're going to be needed.
- PS: But what is different between taking a P2PU course and doing a coursera course?
- EP: Becuase peers offer a sense of resopnsibility
- VMG: I think it's our culture, and that is something that we export as much as our theories of learning
- Maybe culture = "community"
- PS: So then the question is do we want to be the cool indie band who nobody remembers but who changed the course of music, or do we want to sign to a major label?
- EP: I think we need more advertising
- PS: But do we have the model right yet?
- Make awesome projects, share them, make friends
Post-call rememberings from BK:
- BK: School of Webcraft as a model - a neglected aspect that continues to thrive
- Why? Granular, specific, but also limited and too prescriptive
- PS: What does success look like in 5 years time?