Goal:

• Present and discuss (critique) vision for SoSI in 2012 and leave with action steps
• The time is right to do some potentially BIG things with SoSI
• The way I know how to do that is to think about sustainability
• If positive feedback, would love to spend 80% of my time on this

• Update and brief proposal of 2012 projects:

• Proposed Project 1 - Run the world's largest courses on Social Innovation in 2012, designed by students for students - preview the proposal in this blurb going out in the Ashoka U Newsletter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14draLFVnH-QJWVFnVbGuL98Vg62RFcK4xNWYKowJo-U/edit?userstoinvite=jessica@oneworldyouthproject.org&pli=1
• Inspired by the AI and Machine Learning courses at Stanford
• What they did well is to do something *big* and innovative
• Led to question -> What could we do that would be media worthy / attention worthy? 
  • There is lots of interest in social innovation in general
• Model:
  • Recruit students to help design the course
  • Support as an official Ashoka U project - through a network of local groups
  • Define start-date and end-date but flexibility in between
  • Centrally offered seminars and adaptable curricula
  • Local groups are responsible to running the course locally
  • Ask: Be a participant / Launch a local course
  • Ashoka U can help universities offer this for credit
  • Find sponsors to support individual tracks within this
  • Recruit teams to work on content areas - only move forward if find teams and faculty sponsors
  • Do an event at Ashoka U meeting in 2012 that brings together the teams    
• Feedback:
  • Great idea
  • Consider challenges
  • What's needed to get off the ground?
  • Funding from Ashoka U? Answer: Not really possible - but they might be able to help put us in touch with people who can fund
  • Question is if we should do something small to prototype or aim big 
• Next steps
  • Advertising goes out to Ashoka U today
    • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGdNLTVoMk5nS0ZPRFo5Z09NNnR1eGc6MQ#gid=0
  • Doing a call at the end of the month
  • Trying to sign up volunteers
  • If first step successful - will apply for micro-grant to cover time/ expenses

• Proposed Project 2 - Courses that start at conferences.  Replicable revenue generating model.
  • First P2PU SoSI course is still the most successful
  • Based around local teams - working in their own local context
  • Presented at a conference to create some excitement
  • Then offered an opportunity for participants to get involved
  • Formed relationship face-to-face during the conference
  • Model is:
    • Offer as service to conference organizers who want to replicate this model
    • Recruit course organizers 2 months before through a webinar
    • Work with them before the conference
    • Speak at the conference
    • Lead a workshop to help organizers get ideas and recruit participants
  • Examples:
    • Ashoka U Exchange
    • Compass Partners Conference
    • Global Business School Network Conference
    • Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs Conference
    • SoCap Conference
    • Bioneers
    • US Social Justice Forum
    • SXSW
    • TED 
  • Question:
    • Are there other people at P2PU interested in doing this (or something similar)?
    • How soon do we make the big push on this?
      • Do I pick a few smaller conferences to try this out? Or go big?
    • Potential to use this model also just to get the word out (we should consider doing this for other areas - and get P2PU staff and volunteers involved)
    • Pitched this idea to 40-50 people and everyone responds positively
    • What can make this fail?
      • Sponsorship issues - how much can we promote corporate sponsors (if we don't like them)?
      • Running a really bad course with lots of attention - social innovation space is small enough that word will get around
      • Not having someone really drive this (feel ownership, wake up in the morning worrying about making it awesome)

• Next steps
  • Alan - Make project plans with milestones
    • How much tech development needed?
    • Define "sponsorship" guidelines (what do sponsors get for their money / or contribution?)
  • Alan - Micro-grant pitch to get funding needed to get it off the ground
  • Alan - Make a proposal to set up SoSI officially as a partnership between Citizen Circles and P2PU
  • Alan - Document all of this well, so other school organizers can do similar things
  • Alan - Schedule a meeting with all school people (and others interested in speaking at conferences to start courses)
  • Alan - Contact karen specifically about the income generation ideas
  • Alan/John - Speak with John about a product offer for this (prize, service, etc.)
    • How much can we charge for something like this?
    • Alan's friend was hired for something similar -> USD 5000

• Questions
  • Logistics Plan (advice from experience of others)
  • Integrating into P2PU Communication Flow?
  • Tech dev needs
    • Grouping cloned courses
    • Pages for partners
    • Times for meetings
    • Change type of thing a task is
    • Take responsibility for tasks
    • Preloading tasks lists
  • Funding the legwork
  • Relationship of Citizen Circles
• Actions - Next Steps