Yep! We just had a digital sprint to create/test courses today -- updates will be at the p2pu blog http://info.p2pu.org/tag/school-of-open/ (we've been blogging daily during our P2PU July residency in Berlin).
List of courses we'd love feedback on: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/Open_Courses On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Ethan <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI: just launching, the School of > Open<https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/>: > > > It’s official: P2PU and Creative Commons have signed an MOU laying out how >> the two organizations will work together, namely with P2PU providing the >> bulk of the platform and implementation support for the school and Creative >> Commons leading the community collaboration across the various “open” >> sectors to set goals and develop/run courses. >> Big picture aside, what does that mean in concrete terms? It means: >> >> - CC will have a dedicated Project Manager to run the School of Open >> and to serve as liaison between CC and P2PU communities, among others. >> That >> will be me <http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark>! (Yes, I am >> transitioning.) >> >> >> - CC will organize an in-person convening with key stakeholders from >> the open sectors, eg. open access, open data, open education, open >> GLAM/culture, in addition to key funders and other supporters. This >> convening will be held jointly with the meeting for an Open Policy >> Institute, since the two are very related. For example, resources about >> open policies would fit very well within the School of Open; one could >> imagine a course on “How to move your university from closed to open >> access.” This “big picture/think tank” meeting will take place in early >> October in Palo Alto, CA. >> >> Don’t worry if you’re not attending that meeting, since it is only one of >> several — and hardly the most interesting. The most interesting meetings >> will be the workshops, where you, the community, actually gets to create, >> develop, and implement the various pieces of the school, essentially >> building the School of Open. We have several of these workshops in store: >> >> - *Berlin, Germany (July 2012)*: School of Open month-long workshop >> as part of the P2PU pop-up office <http://pad.p2pu.org/p/berlin>. >> P2PU community members and I will start mapping and developing some key >> components of the School. An evening hands-on event will be held Thur, 26 >> July in Berlin that is open to the public (RSVP >> now<https://donate.mozilla.org/page/event/detail/hackjam/w5c>). >> Europe’s open communities especially encouraged to participate. >> >> >> - *Helsinki, Finland (September 2012)*: OKFestival’s Open Research >> and Education >> track<http://okfestival.okfnpad.org/OpenResearchAndEducation> includes >> an “Open Peer Learning: School of Open and School of Data” workshop to >> engage the Open Knowledge Foundation, Creative Commons, and European open >> communities. Held in conjunction with the CC Europe regional meeting to >> allow CC affiliates to participate. >> >> >> - *CC affiliate <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Affiliates>* regional >> meetings (various): discussion and/or workshop on School of Open at these >> meetings in Africa, Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and the Arab >> World. >> >> Those are just the imminent events, but as I transition I will also be >> working on some logistics, such as creating School of Open mailing lists >> for announcements and discussion (to all of those who have signed >> up<http://docs.google.com/a/p2pu.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGQzbFhrVnlMeldEN3l2NkR4emVXRXc6MQ> >> so >> far, I have yet to spam you), and developing a timeline with associated >> benchmarks — all in collaboration with others, of course. >> How you can Get Involved Now >> >> - Sign up <http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open-announce> for >> announcements if you haven’t already >> >> >> - Check out the very alpha landing >> page<https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/>, >> which also has the sign-up link >> >> >> - Read more about the >> origins<http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2011/11/29/the-school-of-open/> >> >> >> - Add to this pad <http://pad.p2pu.org/p/Open_Challenges> your ideas >> for the resource, course, or challenge you want to help create >> >> >> - Register <https://p2pu.org/en/groups/create/> for a P2PU account >> and create a test challenge, or just poke around >> >> >> - Email me <[email protected]> and let me know what you did, or tell >> me how else you want to get involved: janepark [at] p2pu [dot] org >> >> And with that I leave you with a question: What open tool, standard, or >> practice do you wish people knew more about? Let me know in the comments >> above. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- Jane Park http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#janepark Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/creativecommons Subscribe to our monthly newsletter: http://creativecommons.org/newsletter
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