P2PU Working Groups and Mailing Lists

Welcome to the P2PU Community. We are a respectful and dynamic group who are excited by the idea of finding new ways to learn online. There are many different ways to can get involved.

Join our weekly community calls where we discuss big ideas and dole out tasks!

Call times and agendas are always posted here: http://pad.p2pu.org/community

General P2PU Lists

Announcement List - Just curious? Want to touch base now and then?

Join the announcements list: http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-announce

This mailing list is low volume and is used for announcements only.

P2PU Community Discussion

This is where the whole community discusses broad topics, develops ideas & suggestions to send to groups, and debates the core issues, including strategy, stewardship, etc.!

Who should join: anyone willing to brave the volume and build P2PU!

Mailing list (very high volume): http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-community

P2PU Technical Development

The P2PU-dev mailing list is for those who are interested in helping develop and improve the technical infrastructure and website of P2PU.

Who should join: Developers willing to join an active oss community 

 Wiki Landing Page: Development-and-tech-team 

Contact: John Britton

Mailing list: http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo/p2pu-dev

P2PU Research

Contact: Niels Sprong

P2PU Researches is a discussion list for community members and outside individuals and.or organizations wanting to partner with the P2PU project and community for research.
Who should join: internal & external researchers, mathematicians, pedagogues & professionals  

More info: Wiki page 

Mailing list (low volume): http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-researche

Schools within P2PU

P2PU Schools Working Group

Contact: Lila Bailey

Responsibilities:

• Identify potential future schools within the community

• Refine the process of nurturing schools that we started developing at the 2010 Workshop

• Define criteria for awarding micro-grants (or not) to start a few new schools

More information: p2pu schools working group

Who should join: Anyone is welcome to join the group, however doing so means you are committing to taking responsibility to move this forward.

Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-schools 

School of Webcraft (Sow) - Developed in partnership between P2PU and Mozilla Foundation

If you're interested in learning web development,  the P2PU-webcraft list is the place to share your ideas.  Warning, this mailing list can be high volume on occasion.

Who should join: web developers of all skill levels.  

Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-webcraft

P2PU/Citizen Circles School for Social Innovation (SoSI)

Contacts: Alan Webb, Laura White, Jeff Bordogna

Responsibilities:

• Identify and support organizers for new courses on social innovation

• Work with social innovation organizations to develop sponsored, revenue-sharing merit badges for social innovation skills, knowledge, and personal strengths.

• Support development of appropriate technology and structure to support more face-to-face, project teams ("citizen circles") participating in School for Social Innovators courses in communities. 

• Home for all other things Citizen Circles

Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/citizencircles

Wiki Home: http://wiki.p2pu.org/SoSI

Citizen Circles Home: http://www.citizencircles.com

School of the Mathematical Future

Contact: Maria Droujkova

Who should join:

• Mathematics educators at all levels
• Community and project organizers in mathematics education
• Parents

More information: Math Future wiki 

Discussions list: http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture

Localisation and non-English course groups

P2PU Português!

Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-portugues

P2PU Español

Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/p2pu-espanol

Working Groups: Definition and Guidelines

Working groups are used to organise activity around specific non-course / study group activities within P2PU and are often used to gather community attention around a particular issue or task. Two or more people join together to create the working group, they identify their goals and at least one person is nominated as the contact person.

For example, the Schools working group formed to clarify what Schools are and how they could be supported. Lila Bailey volunteered to be the primary contact person for the group and a mailing list was created to manage related discussion.

Working Groups may be time or activity specific, may continue for a long time or may dissolve when a defined task is completed.

If you feel there is a need for a specific working group please send a proposal outlining the responsibilities and goals of the group to the P2PU Community list.

• When a group forms, they should notify the community list and record information about group on this page.
• Groups should designate at least one primary contact person
• Groups set expectations and track progress
• All communication within the group is transparent and public
• create a mailing list if required
• Notes from calls should be maintained in a wiki or Etherpad that is documented and easily found by other community members using the wiki.
• Groups are responsive to input and feedback from the P2PU Community
• Groups send regular updates on its work and progress to the entire
  community
• New people are welcome to join the group.

Mailing List Communication Guidelines

• Be nice and respectful to mailing list users
• Bring your sense of humour but recognise that we are an international community. Some humour may not translate well.
• Please don't forward random stuff / announcements, this is a working list for the School of Webcraft community
• Assume good faith and intentions in other peoples' statements and actions
• If you can say the same thing in fewer words, please do so
• No advertising
• Use good subject lines that reflect the content of the message. If a topic begins to tangent, rephrase the subject line appropriately.
• When replying to a message, include enough original material to be understood but no more. Long emails of quoted content are frustrating.
• When replying to a message, stay on topic. If your post is not related, start a new topic.
• Assume that people speak for themselves, and what they say does not represent their organization (unless stated explicitly)
• Courtesy never hurts, and sometimes helps. and please DO NOT SHOUT!
• No personal attacks, ever!