CoCos, I'll point to debian and wikipedia as examples of cooperative, collaborative action. Both have strong guiding principles set by a central authority, as I understand these things. It so happens that the central authority is invested in maximizing the value of ad hoc volunteer contributions, but such are as nothing without the organizing principle.
We lack that. Let's fix that. Cooperation Commons started, as I understand it, an outgrowth of the Cooperation Studies work started by Andrea and Howard. Seems to me our first order of business is consolidating the resources created by and for that Cooperation Studies class and crafting from it, and any other contributions folks want to make, a base curriculum suitable for adoption by as many relevant departments as possible. Using the Cooperation Studies wiki from the Stanford Class and Suzan's syllabus (darn it, I know others have recently mentioned teaching this stuff) I would think step one would be to distill the parts that run through all, giving us a candidate-set of foundational material. Then the second step would be to try to explicitly tie that foundational material to the various relevant disciplines. The result would be a series such as "Cooperation Studies For Biologists" and "Cooperation Studies for Economists", etc. The question remaining is, what central authority and guiding principles will give shape to this work? The folks who started it all for us, Andrea and Howard, simply haven't the bandwidth to herd this cat. Until we have a better answer to that question, I propose that we each feel empowered to a) use the CoCo wiki for even arguably frivolous contributions, links to the quaint and curious as well as rough drafts of what might become research summaries, or even just place holders for work we'd like to see done; b) blog at the drupal site, even if just re-purposing posts from our own sites; c) begin the outreach work. I don't know where this ties with affiliations to and joint action with other groups, which is actually what I'm trying to respond to from the previous thread. I guess matters of connection seem premature when we are as yet so scattered in our own work. If we are clear on the task, building the Cooperation Studies curriculum, and diligent in our outreach, I think the rest will come pretty naturally. More on that under separate cover. rl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
