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.
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