4/26/11

P2PU 

• Social wrapper for open educational materials
• Building recognition for personal/peer learning
• Growing fast, including partnerships with organizations to form schools, i.e. Mozilla
• Virtual space

Trade School.ourgoods.org/about

• Online platform that connects people to meet in real space via barter
• Real space
• Interested in an alternative value system (but also learning platform)
• Some vetting, but 95% accepted
• Single session
• Desire to scale
  • Current tech platform needs investment to enable scale
  • All volunteer run, by 3 people (wow!)

Interested in building a newtork of trade school - "type" projects? or "trade schools"?

Offline Projects

• Is the public school trying to do the same? http://all.thepublicschool.org/
• For profit / cash based -> http://www.skillshare.com/about
• Brooklyn Brainery
• Connecting existing events in any city as a "course": http://www.pickpocketalmanack.org/

Opportunities:

>> Create/run a group to build/design and opne currency-free booking system? http://new.p2pu.org/en/groups/create/

Place-based community ed organizations have strong variations in their operations, unlikely to blend together, appreciate the variations and diversity


Alison's/PDX Research Club proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HPQPlgImDbo5g6TShn_vD6rs9A_g1KE0yBOVBNNwXSc/edit?hl=en&authkey=CLKm1_wH

• Very early stages of thinking about this idea

you said: Ali and I have been bouncing around an idea that we'd love to get  your input on. There is an increasing number of projects that focus on  local (face-to-face) community based learning. Is there value in trying  to provide an overall platform that:
* gives each local project their own "space" and community that they take responsibility for
* aggregate information about all courses that are offered and in demand across these projects
* gather input from the local projects on what additional services might be useful to each one, and then provide them

It's  not something that the current platform supports out of the box, but a  lot of it could be experimented with in creative ways already, and we'd  be interested in thinking about building something like this together .

[Pippa] - sorry I couldn't join - this sounds ACE and is something I'd really love to see happen. I like the idea of local learning groups (eg Public School) / libraries / hacklabs working with local P2PU "hubs" and offering their space for meetups / F2F classes and skill-shares.