Excellent idea Robert, and I do tend to agree with Stephan in that if we can
begin with those close and then work our way outwards, we'll have more
input/control over how things develop (assuming this is something we want
;-).

Could be a case for:

   1. names proposed on the list
   2. names tracked in the wiki
   3. announcement made on the list when invites sent

what do you think?

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Stephan Dohrn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> another resource to search for papers and authors: http://ideas.repec.org/;
> mostly economics, but some interesting interdisciplinary stuff as well. and
> much more than on SSRN
>
> Might be abit overwhelming to have all the newcomers stream in (if we
> manage to keep those invites up), so I would prefer if we start the outreach
> with the people we know or work with
>
> Stephan
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Robert Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> CoCos,
>>
>> A search for the word "cooperation" in the SSRN abstract _titles_ nets
>> 487 hits.  "Commons" gets 112.  Searching for "prisoners dilemma" in
>> titles, abstracts, and keywords nets 72.  Even assuming a fair amount
>> of overlap between these searches it seems safe to assume we could be
>> talking about as many as 300+ individual authors posting academic work
>> related to our topic, all candidates for outreach.  And this only begins
>> to define the domain of relevant searches at this one resource.
>>
>> I don't think this is a matter of "if we build it they will come" so
>> much as "what the heck will get built when they all show up?"  It would
>> be childs play to send out five outreach emails a day and have a steady
>> stream of three or four new CoCo members a week for a few weeks.  But
>> then what?  If we don't have something for these folks to do they'll do
>> as so many of us have: view, join, lurk.
>>
>> I think we can do better than that, but it's going to take some doing.
>>
>> If we had a seed or starter or base recommendation for the Cooperation
>> Studies curriculum I think we could invite every one of those SSRN
>> authors to come to the wiki and join in the discussion.  And I think it
>> might be a great experiment to see just what would develop from such a
>> project.
>>
>> So that's what I want to do.  I want to send out a few daily contacts
>> and invite these total strangers to come to our wiki and have their way
>> with our content.  Only thing missing is that starter content.  Well,
>> that and some sense of general assent from Andrea and Howard, to whom I
>> would argue we should always grant veto powers.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> rl
>>
>> ps: I've made a couple small updates to the wiki as well this morning.
>> Remember, the password is currently CoCoEdIt77, which you'll need for
>> making edits.  No password required to view the pages.
>>
>>
>>
>
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