• Check ins
• Angging: from UPCIDS Alt Dev team 
• Adrian Schegel: Masters student from Germany working on post-colonial studies 
• Sujit Sinha: Ex-professor, living utopian, writing and translating texts into Bengali for grassroots movements as well as working on audio visual materials.
• Renata Amorim: Phd student from Brazil, working with grassroots movements, connected with the eco village network, looking to find ways to engage and collaborate with the group.
• Irene: Researcher in non-capitalist ecologically sustainable economics
• Sonali Sathaye: Freelance educator. Alternative education linked to alternative economics is an area of interest. Working on a course on Climate Change for school students. 
• Rama Mohana: Faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, part of this group largely to learn about alternative education and contribute where possible.
• Ashish: works with Kalpariksh, Vikalp Sangam, Global Tapestry of Alternatives. 
• Upamanyu: KV, VS, GTA
• Vasna: Lund University, Sweden, GTA Core, WOmin
• Arvin: UPCIDS Alt Dev, Community organiser in urban poor community.
  
  Updates from working groups
  
  Working Group 1: Pedagogic and knowledge sharing to build and strengthen repositories of materials
• The group made a list of the kind of materials people tend to share on Pedagog. The next question is where to save the materials. 
• One option is to use the GTA platform.
• Start an independent website
• Shared cloud drive
• Funds are required, a coordinator is necessary.
  
  Comments 
• Ashish: Easy access is the question. A quick call over the next couple of weeks can help in moving forward. Franco (GTA), Pallav (RED) can help. Flarum is another possibility. 
• Ashish: Another question is whether the space would be passive or interactive. Would it also require an internal and external section?
• Upamanyu: Moodle is an option to look into—free open source learning management system
  
  Working Group 2: Research collaborations and action research
  
• A database about the members could be a starting point/referral point to further collaborations. A Google form can be sent out to the group.
• Melanie Bush can help in this group with processing the data
   
  Comments
• Sonali: Finding out what everyone is doing on the network could be quite overwhelming. It would be nice to have a framework to process that information.
• Ashish: This would be very valuable. A questionnaire should go out soon. In order to put the information within a framework, we can create drop down menus (MCQs).
  
  Working Group 3: Co-organization of events (inward-facing)
• Along similar lines to Group 2, and there is more work/thinking required.
  
  Working Group 5: Collective Values and Principles of the PeDAGoG network
• Following document has been worked upon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17XEzP8uyXYlbMS_RF9tJ7GOB-M1MpOhs/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111534508705890427151&rtpof=true&sd=true
  
  Comments
• Sujit: Many people in this group are part of institutions which might not be in line with PEDAGOG’s ethics.
• Vasna: Many of us are restricted by our institutions, but it is important to have these explicit guiding principles within these alternative spaces. 
• Ashish: Agreeing with Vasna, as one of the reasons behind PEDAGOG was to create an aspirational space, to subtly push and learn from each other. These ethics can be a guide to what could be. 
• Rama: These ethics can be a reference while critiquing the institutional constraints faced by many of us. 
• Ashish: the group can also play the role of advocacy such as with statements of solidarity. 
• Sonali: On Ashish’s point of solidarity, it can be hypocritical to advocate for anti-capitalist ideas while having comfortable jobs. This network can play a role in promoting alternative livelihoods and real alternatives. 
• Ashish: PEDAGOG is also supposed to challenge our ‘comfortable’ notions, such as finding a balance between lack of remuneration, following our interests, and well-paying jobs.
• Irene: There is an imbalance of contributions within this group, there may be a need to push people further and become more strict with the members who don't contribute.
• Ashish: Agreeing with the point made by Irene, one view can be to look at the network as a long term project instead of a short term project. There is progress being made by some working groups.
  
  Moving Forward
• Group 1 will look to hold a meeting in the coming month. Call for volunteers to be sent out to the larger group for help. Ashish will try to loop Franco and Pallav in. 
• Group 2 is working on a questionnaire for members, Melanie will also assist the group.
• Group 5 has already put together the ethics framework. Another attempt can be made to send it out for comments. If there are no comments, then we can accept this as a final document for now.

Next Meeting: 1,2,4,5,6 Feb as possible next dates. Upamanyu will send out a Doodle Poll soon.