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I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the combination of mailing list + wiki is a powerful and naturally complementary formula. There's no tension between them, they support each other in different ways. This is based on the idea of "stocks and flows" and supported by my experience with the cidermakers CoP. In the case of the DAR wiki however, the barn raising is probably going to be as much about bootstrapping the early stages of a community as the wiki. 28 hour day Thanks for the encouragement Nancy. Don't forget to sleep and eat. Barn raising I've only just twigged this idea of holding a barn raising pary for launching a wiki. It reminds me a little of the origins of traditional Breton step dancing, which was a kind of house warming party through which the new inhabitants get welcomed to the village and they get their brand new earthen floor nicely compacted as well. The idea of barn raising to launch a wiki is actually documented on the meatball community wiki: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BarnRaising BarnRaising occurs when a community actively decides to come to the same place at the same time to help achieve some specific goal. It's pretty much impossible for one person to raise a barn. The main part of the process is taking two framed walls that have been built lying on the ground and raising them to vertical. Thus BarnRaising demands collaboration in a way that other activities do not. then you have a big party with everyone who's around. That's where the social aspect of it comes from. Lift some walls, rejoice and dance. So now I'm planning to host a barn raising party myself to launch the DAR wiki in March. Instead of just an online exhibition with feedback, I'll put the word out that it's a barn raising event and generate a sense of occasion for getting a new colaborative wiki off the ground. Planning a barn raising Coming back to this again, as the days tick away.. I'm developing a plan for organising a barn raising for the DAR wiki. So far I have 1) Set a date - provisionally March 1st, but could be a week or so later. 2) Plan to provide multiple means of communication. This plan needs to be flexible, depending on the preferences of my guests but I'm thinking of concentrating on one asynchronous mailing list, one synchronous text chat and one voice channel. Plus open up a page on the wiki for preparation, where the details for these and other channels can be updated. 3) Let people know about it Who/where Tell some of my friends, colleagues, and tout around all the email lists, groups and wikis which are related. A list of these to be maintained on the prep page as well, so open to suggestions there. When 7 days in advance, and during. 4) Prepare the wiki frontpage One possibility is to blank what's there already, so that the existing pages are just some raw material for the barn raisers to work with. So this proto-plan can form the first iteration of the barnraising page now. http://distributedresearch.net/wiki/index.php/Barn_raising Denham I'd be interested in any suggestions you may have for 'marketing' my blog/wiki combo. It's a wiki without a community to support it as yet, for the topic of distributed action research - using action research to develop CoPs, a concept which I am in the process of developing. I'd hoped to use the blog to attract attention but not getting very far with that yet. I have confidence that the simple power of wikis will surpass many other constructs. -- Andy Roberts http://distributedresearch.net/blog http://distributedresearch.net/wiki |
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