P2PU Workshop 2011

The Big Questions

• Why are we doing this? 
  • What problem are we solving?
    • Who/What do you hate?
    • What is the system we want to change? 
  • How do we change our users lifes? [Mission]
  • What do we stand for? [Values]
  • What does Success look like?

Notes: http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-big-questions


AGENDA

Each session has three outputs:

• Things we built/resolved/agreed during the session (e.g. wireframes, draft policies, etc.)
• A plan (next steps, who does what, milestones with dates)
• An owner = the person who makes sure things move forward (doesn't mean they have to do all the work, doesn't mean they make all the decisions - working with community)

Learning Experiments 

NOTES --> http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-learning-experiments


P2PU Research

NOTES -> [[Research Page]]


(Staff) Collaboration Practices

NOTES -> http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-staff


PR and Marketing

NOTES -> http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-Marketing


School of Social Innovation

NOTES -> http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-sosi


Kickstarter Campaign

NOTES -> http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-kickstarter


How do we deal with language/local communities (Stian)

NOTES -> [[local language communities]]


School of Open

NOTES: http://pad.p2pu.org/school-of-open


Challenges and badges

NOTES --> http://pad.p2pu.org/making-challenges-session
CONTENT ---> http://pad.p2pu.org/metachallenge
RECAP ----> what we learned from London mozfest and the p2pu workshop in Berlin blog post http://bit.ly/veC1W4


Sustainability/ Donations/ Earned Income

NOTES -> http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-sustainability


Development Process Resources / Automated Testing

NOTES -> http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-automated-testing


Developing countries

[[Developing countries]]


The P2PU Showcase

NOTES -> http://pad.p2pu.org/showcase


The Voice of P2PU

NOTES --> http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-the-voice


Rounds and the Course Creation Process

NOTES --> http://pad.p2pu.org/rounds for information on rounds & http://pad.p2pu.org/courses for information on updating the course creation process


20 - UX hacking (Profile, Group Creation, & Group Discovery)

NOTES --> http://pad.p2pu.org/workshop-ux-hacking




=== NOT DISCUSSED (not enough time) ===



NOT DISCUSSED13 Assessment at P2PU
Add your name if you want to work on this: zuzel, pippa Niels

• People: Chloe 
• Share and discuss design guidelines, draft here http://bit.ly/qeTQr2 
• Hands on work on new features for assessment in p2pu
• Comment: would be interested to see how version controls and review mechanisms could be used to cooperatively build better assessments. eg. how could a git style system be used to manage crowdsourced assessments? I think this would be a really interesting space for P2PU to explore.+
  • 1 some guidelines here : http://bit.ly/qeTQr2
• LINKS TO POSTS here: assessment from the POV of a designer;social http://bit.ly/vloJcH creative & dynamic http://bit.ly/uL2B4C & personal http://bit.ly/vnbhoG

NOT DISCUSSED INSTEAD CHALLENGES 101 14 Badges 101
Add your name if you want to work on this: zuzel

• People: Chloe
• Go through the webmaking 101  badges interface, test it and give feedback- what works, what is confusing? what can we improve? how can we improve it
• Hands on hacking of the badges interface

NOT DISCUSSED 2 - P2PU the Lab
Add your name if you want to work on this: Stian, Nadeem, Neeru

• Might need P2PU (tech) vision session first - unless everyone happy with lab focus
• What does the technology platform of a lab look like?
• What are interfaces / hooks for people to experiment on top of a stable, clean production server?

• Comment: Not sure what this session is about
• Question - Is P2PU the Lab a technical space or a space for learning experiments - this sounds very tech  focused as opposed to the tech responding to the types of experiments people may want to make?  - Would be happy to input on this if it is more about the ways of doing (not the technology reqd.) (PB) 
• eg. I'd love more support for Big Blue Button to play with online facilitation techniques...
• I don't know how this would work technically, but I'd be interested in talking about how we could make it easier for people to experiment with different ways of learning/teaching on P2PU - APIs, small "apps", etc. 

NOT DISCUSSED 4 - P2PU Fellows [Bekka]
Add your name if you want to work on this: alison, Nadeem,Dany

• Recognizing volunteer contributions
• Giving volunteers a "role" 
• What are expectations attached to fellows?
• Fellow for life, or rotating?
• p2pu ambassador program? 
  • demonstrated community participation
  • ran events
  • familiar with staff/community
• intern positions (unpaid)
  • developers 
    • google summer of code
  • social media
  • course creators
• Comments: Similar to "Increase volunteer contributions to dev" but for non-dev contributors?

NOT DISCUSSED 5 - Schools
Add your name if you want to work on this: zuzel, alison, Nadeem, Delia

• What's the relationship between P2PU and Schools (and esp. School of Webcraft)?
• Are we serving the communities better by supporting them separately or as one? What's better for our users?
• Can P2PU be a platform for many smaller schools?
• How can build out a stronger identity for Schools that get "too large"?
• P2PU & CC "School of Open" (Jane)
• School of Gamecraft
• Comment: Maybe smaller groupings of "topics" aren't schools... yet - what tools do these sub-communities need to share ideas? - eg harnessing tags etc

NOT DISCUSSED 7 - F2FU Face 2 Face University [?] 
Add your name if you want to work on this: Alan

• Do something like Goddard College - Face to face seminars?
• See the above proposal.  A model we're going to try is to recruit student leaders on Ashoka U campuses as "local hosts" for organizing F2F groups.
• Comment: Maybe better to phrase this as -  How can P2PU be used as a mechanism for learners meeting AND learning  face to face - either regularly and locally or to organise seminar weeks/ "camps" etc for specific topics?  PB

8 - Global Meet-ups [?] / Local Community Outreach (John, Jane)
Add your name if you want to work on this:chloe, pippa, alan,Dany

• Build a happy global P2PU community
• Could be linked to above session on F2FU
• Comment: maybe is necessary to define a structure of community(organization chart,roles..) 

existing local communities: 

• portland a
• colombia, university, open technology communities (events: free software day, campus party, web developers)
  • staying in contact: skype, learning group at university under another name, social networks (ie. unix, calibre)

existing tools to enable local communities (currently geared towards events):

• p2pu meetup
• mailing list

ideas

• local community model (look at open source community for an example)
• 
  

Global P2PU day

• publicity blitz
• annual fundraising campaign
• kickstarter
• one person in each city to take responsibilty for each event
  • enable with a toolkit (ie. CC salon kit)
  • goal - 50 organizers?
  • ee
• content: crowd-source stuff for media, etc. 
• get an organizational structure out of it
• tshirts, stickers
• good for engaging staff (practice what we preach), community

Action items

• list of events per domain and generally p2pu should be at, look at wiki and add to gcalendar (JP + staff)
• toolkit to enable local meetups (howto) (JP, JB)
• global p2pu day in spring, each staff member runs an event (April 14 tentative) - float idea with community (Dany) - link to open education week
• check on the trademark issue local community (DB)

NOT DISCUSSED 12 Mentorship at P2PU (not just webcraft)
Add your name if you want to work on this: zuzel, Niels

• People: John & Chloe
• How do we ensure quality
• Sustainability
• Pairing

• Comment: developing resources to help both mentors and learners paired with mentors - eg. sample social contracts between the mentor / mentee, how to be a good mentor, how to make the best out of your mentoring relationship - PB.
• Can be closely related to the community organization

NOT DISCUSSED 15 - Breaking the Community (could be tied to Schools discussion) - Bekka
Add your name if you want to work on this: Pippa

• How do we avoid sub-projets splitting the community
• P2PU - not a franchise but a happy family of restuarants

NOT DISCUSSED 16 - Lighthouse Archaeology
Add your name if you want to work on this: zuzel, alison,Stian, Nadeem

• People: John & Zuzel (zuzel volunteered john for this)
• Goal: Plan low level roadmap based on open tickets in lighthouse
• Find out tickets we have forgotten and give feedback to tickets that matter to you
• Assign priorities and milestones
• Get a better idea of what it is still todo
• Decide on controversial features

NOT DISCUSSED 17 - Increase volunteer contributions to dev [Zuzel]
Add your name if you want to work on this: zuzel, Nadeem

• How can we get more people involved in development work? 
• Knowing where things are going is useful to volunteers (connected to above)
• Rewaring people for their contributions (important!)
• Make the start as easy as possible (documentation + interaction with others)
• How do we keep people engage and happy?

PLEASE FIND A HOME FOR THE FOLLOWING:

Miscellaneous Notes:
*P2PU - Make smart choices
*Community/P2PU as a social equalizer. ie. when you walk into any other environment that is not a learning environment, there are automatic assumptions and judgments made. imagine walking into a bar, into a company interview, into a party. there are social proclivities that automatically get manifested in certain behaviors that may isolate or polarize. in a learning environment, such as within a university lecture hall, people enter on the same footing, and stereotypes/preconceptions/beliefs are suspended for a time. how to translate to online environemnt/how to express that this is a benefit of P2PU?