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Sharing Resources
A few of you have started adding links, ideas, notes. I was hoping that would happen - this really is intended as a group effort where everyone shares with everyone else. I am wondering what the best way is to make it easy for us to point out interesting readings and things we come across. Here is a strawman idea, feel free to change! If many of us are using del.icio.us or diigo, we could also set up a resources tag/group there? Thoughts?
Resources relevant to the syllabus and weekly discussions
All of you should be able to Edit the Syllabus. Please add resources/links that fit within the structure set out to the syllabus directly - that way everyone will definitely see them.
Resources that are relevant to the course, but might not fit perfectly into the Syllabus
Please add all other resources in Readings/ Resources page. My guess is that these links will come up in other discussions, but if we all remember to add them to the page, we (and others interested in open governance) will end up with an awesome reading list.
Random things
Post them as comments here, or insert them into the discussion as appropriate.
I have already created a Diigo group for the course (mostly as a benefit to me), but, everyone is free to join!
http://groups.diigo.com/group/p2pu-governance
With that said, I like the idea of keeping all of the resources in one place, within this course, so that other people outside of the class can more easily figure out what we did/talked about. And awesome reading lists are, well, awesome.
Greg
Interesting blog post suggesting the use of hierarchies and "social gates" in open communities to avoid the lowest common denominator problem, or, as he calls it, the "evaporative cooling effect."
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-evaporative-...
Carrie: This is a fascinating post - thanks for sharing. I am particularly interested in the gating processes he mentioned. Greg, in his blog post for week 1, gave some insight into the process of becoming an ubuntu member. There is a clear path to get recognition/ responsibility in the ubuntu community - and it involves an application process that acts as a gateway into the community. In the context of P2PU we are interested in two types of gating, one is the P2PU community itself which is involved in strategy / governance, but the other is for individual courses - where we believe gating is a way to filter for motivation and reduce drop outs.