---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <[email protected]> Date: 8 March 2015 at 21:21 Subject: New WG is formed: Reporting back from the first meeting of the Peer Producing FLOS and Commons University WG To: Nieuwe Universiteit <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Contact person: Orsan Senalp (networg.nl) Email: [email protected] Objective: To design and implement ‘the new university’ in a way it is grounded and working at the #Maagdenuis and p2p networked to outside world, now. It’s form, content / curriculum, and governance will be peer produced, as in some of the free/libre and open source projects, where people can produce, shared, and disseminate knowledge as a commons, by each participants. What we have in mind is to construct an working ‘emancipatory’ model, where students and academic workers, of UvA and in general, empowers each other and delivers emancipatory knowledge for the use of broader society. Such model needs to be thought in binary opposition to the current ‘disciplinary’ model that is designed to maintain the status-quo that favours the rich, powerful, greedy, a-social, destructive, and boring ruling classes. Therefore one criteria for the new networked university we have, is the emancipatory empowerment of all the participating nodes. Report from the first meeting: * We initially decided to hold 3 regular meetings per week (every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), at the same time (14:00) and same place (@Cafeteria / in case it is too noisy @Cinema in the Room 223), to work further on and put the ideas in practise. * Some of us will be attending in the earliest GA to report back updates -either on the same evening or the next day. In any case will send reports and updates to the email(lists) * Before Wednesday 11 March, we will prepare and secure online and physical space and infrastructure to communicate the program as we build it (including the course flow, initiator's contact info, location, time so on), and to deliver the classes. The infrastructure will be composed of an online pad (titanpad), physical large board, somewhere visible at the maagdenhuis (fixed location), in the physical class we will have a projector, computer, sound system, papers and pens, etc. online attending to the class will be possible. * Who ever like to initiate or take place in the classes would send email to the WG, add info in the board or pad, or join in the WG meetings to make a proposal. Classes and the program will be noticed at the GA as updates. Initiators are obliged to meet the criteria by letting us know how and why their course / class / skill share..etc. initiative is emancipatory. * We would seek to work closely with media, program and networking groups of the DNU and Re-Think UvA. * Another initial idea is to think further on the idea of embedding such knowledge liberation practise into a broader cooperative and solidarity economy frame-network * Next meeting: 9 Monday, 14:00, @Cafeteria, #Maagdenhuis, Spui 21, Amsterdam WG online spaces: WG-Central Pad: https://titanpad.com/PeerProducingFLOSandCommonsUniversityWG Program/Board: … in progress Minutes / Decisions: … in progress Loomio Group: https://www.loomio.org/g/R3eZtGlm/p2p-flos-commons-university-wg-dnu-re-thin... E-list: … in progress