Barn raising:Version2

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aims and objectives of this barn raising

  • to launch the DARwiki as a collaborative wiki about distributed action research (raising the barn)
  • to bring people togeher from a number of disparate communities who may have a continuing interest in DAR as practioners, students or whatever (critical mass)
  • to see if it is possible to communicate and make collaborative decisions by all of the barn raisers on such tasks as refactoring the present frontpage and indexing/tagging system in a way that makes it easier for visitors to edit or navigate.


what is barn raising?

It is a metaphor for online interaction that replicates what happens in "meatspace." If you raise a barn, you have built something. (see Meatball Wiki: Barn raising)

timeline

  • Wednesday - March 8th – Exhibition Opens - read more
  • Friday - March 10th – Barn raising begins
  • Wednesday - March 15th - Barn raising closes
  • Friday - March 24th – Exhibition closes.

initial tasks

  • visit the exhibition
  • explore what content is already on the wiki (Special:Allpages ) adding any comments to related discussion pages.
  • familarise yourself with the functioning of the mediawiki technology a bit, make an edit, view it as 'preview' before saving, ask questions, help others.
  • Go through all of the pages which are presently uncategorised and add categories
  • Make a list of which pages are ripe for mass attention
  • Communicate, meet new people and have fun!
  • Make a list of which pages are badly needed
  • Determine the neighbouring wikis to DARwiki and specify relationships and boundaries
  • Consider future policy for real names, pseudonyms or anonymous editing
  • Consider a statement of aims for this DARwiki

communications channels

Plan to provide multiple means of communication.

This plan needs to be flexible, depending on the preferences of guests.

Possibilities include:

  • keep an eye on RecentChanges RSS
  • an asynchronous mailing list - subscribe here RSS
  • a synchronous text chat - irc.freenode.net #darnet
  • one voice channel - skype/ichat


publicity

Let people know about it

Who / where

Tell all friends and colleagues via related email lists, groups and wikis:

  • CPsquare - blog
  • AOIR list
  • CIResearchers list
  • Ultraversity Community
  • blog of blogs

done:


When 7 days in advance, and during.

invitation

Feel free to redistribute this invitation to relevant communities and individuals.


Dear ___community member,

You are invited to a "barn raising" event to help launch Distributed Action Reseach on March 10th-15th 2006.

WHO

Anybody interested in distributed Communities of Practice, in Action Reseach or in Wiki community building is invited. Bring your friends, meet new people, do some useful work, learn about community building by doing it and have a great time.

WHAT

The idea of 'barn raising' is to bring a group of people together at one specific time in order to build something collaboratively that couldn't be done by one person alone. Distributed Action Research (DAR) is a new combination of approaches. We have the beginnings of a community, the beginnings of a Wiki and the barn raising has been convened in order to rapidly develop the Wiki and achieve critical mass for a sustainable launch of both.

WHERE

As the event unfolds, new plans will be rapidly made and executed, new communication channels set up and new tasks decided. The central place for coordinating all of this is the barn raising page on DARwiki. That's here:

http://distributedresearch.net/wiki/index.php/Barn_raising

WHEN

The official date and time for the kick off is

    • Friday 10th March at 20.00 GMT**

and the event is scheduled to last for 5 days, during which time the bulk of barn raisers will be dropping in for as long as they can spare. We may decide to have specific hours for synchronous communications within sub-groups depending on time zones and so on. That will all become apparent on the Timeline section of the barn raising page as well. See you there!

BUT WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO?

  • Bring along your specific knowledge, expertise and connections.
  • Find a way to communicate with the other barn raisers.
  • Help to organise and add writing to the DARwiki.
  • Visit the Online Exhibition at

http://distributedresearch.net/blog/?page_id=75

  • learn together about community building by doing it
  • have a great time and feel proud of having helped to build something
  • consider using what you've learned to maybe organise a barn raising

for another community you belong to in the future,

Cheers

Andy Roberts, DARwiki convenor

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