People have been working really hard! Feel free to work at home or take the day off. Philipp Worked with School of Open – did a use case on what a person who might come to School of Open might want Staff meeting Tech support Talked to Mozilla about badges Today: finally get to…
Posts Categorized: Berlin Residency
School of Open Day 3: In which we vanquish the thronging hordes of post-it invaders, and begin to make sense.
Today we finally imposed some order on the many levels of thinking we’ve been doing since Monday, which meant yet more time with the pink and green post-it notes. While our goal for much of this work was to create a lovely skills map like the School of Data has, we realized that isn’t the…
Sneak Peek at the P2PU Mentorship Program
by Alex Kehayias The P2PU Mentorship program, a free service that connects people to mentors, is almost ready for the public! The development version is now available for your feedback and review at http://mentordev-qu6we2kn.dotcloud.com/. Click around and let us know what you think. Tweet @alexkehayias with your thoughts/bugs/kudos. The development version is being actively worked on…
Day 2: School of Open in Berlin
For the first two days of School of Open workshopping, our process has teetered between in-the-clouds theorizing and on-the-ground brainstorming. This often results in chaos but I think we’re actually getting somewhere. Forward progress: We’re starting to get a better idea of exactly what the School of Open could be — not only learning modules…
Better Looking, Better Learning III
Connecting ideas is all about decoding complexity. Making things simple to use and to live with. Having relevant, meaningful interactions. Having that in mind, we continue our adventure through some Berliner design thinking sessions. This is our third post out of a series of we-don’t-know-how-many-posts-yet. Lots of work has been done and there’s lot more…
We’re Hosting a Hackathon!
We are having a hackathon on the 19th-22nd of July. Some people are going to be at Agora in Berlin, but it would be great if anyone wanted to join virtually. We also want non-developers to participate in the hackathon, so please come and join us. The plan is to start, build and finish stuff by…
Day 1 of School of Open in Berlin
Building the School of Open. It’s a multimedia installation. Materials: post it notes, old refrigerator. / mollyali / CC BY What did we do today? Logistics and Agora community For one thing, we got Molly and Piet set up with all the logistics — lunch cards, $ for the U-bahn (Berlin metro system), wifi at…
Standup Notes – 16 July 2012
16 July 2012 – Notes from Berlin Standup Alan: This weekend was great, we went to the CIA listening tower Today: The morning is email catchup. Then moving into operationalising plans for the fall – getting feedback on the handbook, writing the blog posts we’ve committed to doing. Jane: Weekend was great – spent…
Better Looking, Better Learning II
More Spider-sense mindmaps! As a conclusion for an intense design thinking last week, we’ve got mapped key attributes on how our users interact with P2PU. We took into consideration the feedback we registered from user studies, interviews, comments and suggestions. Words have special powers here – adjectives try to envision a global perspective over the…
Save the date for the first School of Open Virtual Sprint!
The School of Open is about to take off in a big way over the next two weeks. Starting this Monday, 13 July, three peers + myself will be dedicating our energies full-time every day to mapping skills and creating courses that relate to openness. Although we’ll be doing some big picture thinking, much of…