[p2pu-dev] Notes from Community Call - The Seminar Version

Thu Oct 11 16:11:38 UTC 2012

A most excellent call. Thanks to everyone who joined.
We've got some killer topics planned for the coming weeks...
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Attendees (welcome to any newbies)*

   - Vanessa (@mozzadrella)

   - Bekka

   - Dirk

   - Jane

   - Philipp (sorry, in a loud place ... bad wifi day)

   - Chris

   - Pete (@peteforsyth)

*Staff Standups **What have you been up to? Short discussion/report back
using the 4Ps and an I (Progress, Priorities, Problems, Process, Ideas) *

   - Bekka

   - Next round planning

   - Push back until after release of new course UX

   - Recruit innovators to run courses (so we can launch new UX with a set
   of courses)

   - Bekka to contact people and ask them to do this - ask 25, we should
   get 10

   - Priorities

   - Courses for UX launch

   - Tax

   - August/Sept finance stuff,

   - Community Q&A

   - http://storyhackboston.tumblr.com/

   - Problems

   - Process

   - Ideas

   - Schools Support

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   - Vanessa

   - Priorities:

   - Revisiting assessment plan with P

   - Nailing down Mechanical MOOC details with Chris and June

   - Focusing on School of Data & transition from Laura to Lucy (new Scoda
   lead)

   - Process:

   - Feedback to Dirk and Chris on UX

   - Slides on "What is a P2PU Course?"
   http://www.slideshare.net/VanessaGennarelli/what-is-a-p2pu-course

   - Problems:

   - How to explain how P2PU works +1

   - The next steps are unclear--how to get started is "fuzzy"

   - Philipp -> I don't think it's about explaining what P2Pu is, it's more
   about explaining what the 3 things are that it means to "do stuff" at P2PU

   - Jane --> just need very simple step 1, 2, 3. How to guide someone
   through who is already on board to make their course creation process fun
   and painless..

   - Ideas:

   - P2PU School of Sound +1

   - VMG-> The take-away from the Storyhack event was that sound stuff is
   awesome, so VMG has been talking to Soundcloud about a School of Sound,
   which we could (hopefully) launch with them in early 2013 when they do a
   big launch.

   - POssibility of working with sound people beyond soundcloud

   - Chris is dead keen :)

   - Chris

   - Priorities

   - Mechanical Mooc groups - until Oct 15

   - going out soon--we might need to change the groupings (see email)

   - About 3400 people have been grouped (out of about 5400 people who
   signed up)

   - Working with Vanessa and June on the data that's being collected out
   of this.

   - CSS Framework

   - lots of progress being made

   - Process

   - Trello board for css framework -
   https://trello.com/board/css-framework/5076d9cce4b0c2b6650c53f0 - just
   set up, still being populated

   - Philipp

   - Open Policy Institute / School of Open meeting

   - Lifelong Kindergarten Group Research Retreat

   - Plotting new projects & funding

   - Note on new Schools / incl. School of Sound, School of Free Software,
   etc.

   - Budget is something to consider. We either have to tie it to something
   else, or fundraise, or find someone to do it as a volunteer

   - Dirk

   - Progress: Course UX - editor improvements - disqus integration

   - Problems: Spam - lots of spam popping up in different places - should
   be squashed now

   - Priorities: beta test course UX and release with CSS framework

   - Jane

   - Priorities: following up from October convening! Barrage of notes
   here, but will get cleaned up and distilled:
   http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/SOO_Oct_5 Join the School of Open
   call after this @9 if you have questions before the debrief next week +
   next steps

   - Progress: October Convening went great; OKFestival Helsinki also went
   well - blog post just went out this morning (
   http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34360 )

   - Problems: (not really, just ongoing points to be aware of): Course
   review process, Course creation process support for new School course
   developers

   - Ideas: How to designate courses as created by a certain org? Need some
   landing page customization and/or design help around badges in time for
   "official" launch *Feb 2013* (ambitious I know)

   - Upcoming workshops at Mozilla Festival (led by me), CC Latin America
   Regional Meeting (led by me), CC Asia Pacific Regional meeting (led by
   Jessica Coates), Summit on Open Strategies (Berlin),

   - Pete Forsyth

*General Notes** (Group stand-up?)*

*Process:*

   - One PPPI to bind them all, or keep individual?

   - Public view of what's happening

   - Doesn't feel like "reporting"

   - BK -> I don't quite undersatnd how that would work

   - Maybe like have quick go-arounds where someone shouts Priorities! and
   everyone chimes in with one sentence. And move on to next one..

   - Or we group it by "project" +1- like CSS, Mechanical MOOC, rounds etc?

   - PS: Example -> see next section below labelled "Progress".

   - Maybe we should ask the community how it's clearest to them to consume
   the information--do they want to see by person or by theme

   - I think it's ok for us to make the decision (We can always change it
   back if people don't like it)

   - DU -> I like the one PPPI idea

   - Process for the call - how do we make/take notes

*Progress*

   - New version of UX for courses (DU)

   - Keep the best of courses & challenges

   - VMG: "... badass ...."

   - PS: "...elegant and refined, yet malleable and responsive ... "

   - CSS (CE)

   - Working through all the pages that need to be changed

   - Planning Next round of courses (BK)

   - Pushed back to launch together with new course UX

   - Targets for Outreach

   - Sam Allingham--Fiction

   - Alex Hillman & Tony Bacigalupo (Indyhall and New Work City,
   respectively)

   - Revisiting Assessment plan (details to come) (VMG)

   - Mechanical MOOC almost ready to walk on its own (VMG/CE)

   - Helping people get started with courses (VMG)

   - How do we frame learning theory in a way that makes it easier to
   understand?

   - Is it a communication challenge?

   - School of Open (JP)

   - Loads of progress. Ran workshop. Lots of workshops planned.

*Problems:*

   - Spam issues (DU)

   - Noticed that people were finding new ways to create spam, but Dirk is
   onto them now

*Ideas:*

   - P2PU School of Sound

   - Working with SoundCloud and others

   - SoundCloud planning a big launch in Jan/Feb - could time School of
   Sound to coincide

   - Goal: not just SoundCloud, but "raise all boats"

*Seminar Discussion*

   - P2PU Stories - beta

   - Background (Philipp)

   - The event brought together storytellers and geeks, and led to some
   thoughts about how to tell people about P2PU without saying "this is what
   we're about"

   - The "question &answer chain" is one way of building these - 1 person
   records/asks a question, and another person answers it.

   - Interesting new way to "Get to know P2PU"

   - Inspiration: http://storyhackboston.tumblr.com/

   - Prototype: http://info.p2pu.org/stories

   - Blog post:
   http://info.p2pu.org/2012/10/01/the-hackathon-revamped-recs-for-mixing-hackers-storytellers/

   - Suggested ideas (thanks, VMG!):

   - Moments where you felt you learned something from a peer

   - Tell a story about being involved with or a member of the P2PU
   community

   - How did you discover P2PU? What was that discovery process like?

   - Have you drummed up a friendship at P2PU that went beyond a course?
   How did that happen?

   - Why did you first get involved?

   - What makes learning at P2PU special?

   - Go ahead and record away

   - Log in with your own account

   - Upload files to the "inbox" of P2PU account

   - P2PU moderates and manually adds to that

   - Gives us some capacity for curation/ordering

   - *NEXT STEPS*: By Monday 15 October, each person on this call should
   reach out to 1 person not on this call, and (either in an interview style
   or by uploading and then letting people know when the question is up)
   generate one question and one answer on the page.

   - Then we'll ask the community to help add more content

*Ideas for Future Seminar calls*

   - VMG -> I would like to get started on our "mental models" - a thread
   of research/methodology from engineering

   - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model

   - http://www.indiyoung.com/

   - Why people make decisions in a certain workflow

   - Alex Hillman (Indyhall) - Focus: connect offline/online and leverage
   co-working infrastructure

   - Karen Brennan (MIT/Harvard) - Scratch ED community for teacher PD

   - Make sure we invite Karen Fasimpaur+1 (also as School of Ed organizer)

   - Would be cool of the tech team could give a learning theory session on
   what they do (they respond to pesky questions by jane, in part)

   - Yes. Not just learning theory. Also great new tools and tech stuff we
   should be thinking about

   - Who is the "tech team"? DU and CE?

   - Yup. And maybe some of the volunteers who help you?

   - DU is definately not an expert on "learning theory"

   - I'd also love for other Schools to present their
   work/progress/ongoing, etc.+1

   - BK -> VAnessa, if you have more readings/videos for us, that would be
   awesome too - make us do a bit of homework

   - Potential topics???

   - Learning methodologies

   - Weird behavioural stuff

   - What do kids do?

   - Positive Psychology and motivation - in relation to open governance -
   how do you create communities where people can do anything?

   - People from MIT Medialab P is working with?

   - Amos - Scratch Community Manager
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