I won't be herding, but I'll be contributing, and, I hope, so will Andrea.
Howard Rheingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/hrheingold http://www.rheingold.com http://www.smartmobs.com http://vlog.rheingold.com what it is ---> is --->up to us On Aug 25, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Robert Link wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
