CommunityForge will facilitate the setting up of a CCC Community of Practice (CoP) during the weekend of 18 - 20 February 2011 at the Tiocan.
Desired Outcome:
See below for details on key questions and activities that will guide us in forming our CoP :
Define who we are and where we are going
Key Questions
What is the community’s primary purpose? benefits to the stakeholders?needs ?
What are our common values ?mission and vision statement?
Exercises
2. Define the benefits of the community for all stakeholders, including:
3. Identify the major topic areas
4. Estimate the necessary resources in the following: technology, special technical development, facilitation and support.
Define the activities, technologies and roles that will support the community’s goals
Key Questions activities will generate energy and support the emergence of community presence?communicate on an ongoing basis to accomplish the community’s primary purpose?
What are the external resources that will support the community (people, publications, reports, etc.)?share these resources and gain access to them?
How will community members collaborate with each other to achieve shared goals ?
How do we define roles in the community?
Activities
2. Identify any face-to-face meeting opportunities for community members, and define how these will be incorporated into the community experience (conferences, etc.)
3. Create feature list, timeline and action items
4. Create “folder structure” for organizing discussions, documents and resources.
5. Understand the needs of facilitation and moderation where it is applicable.
Prototype the Tools
Key Questions short-term goal will help establish the community as a viable and valuable entity?
What community-oriented technologies will be used to support the pilot community’s social structures and core activities?
How will success be measured and communicated to the broader stakeholder groups?
Activities
2. Implement prototype.
3. “Seed” with content, such as a list of tasks from lightning talks and projects present
4. Exercise the prototype with needs, tasks and commitments defined through the previous steps. These real, value-added goals will help unifying the movement, and allow us to move to launch more quickly.
Launch (at a later date)
This is outside the scope of our weekend. We will however set a date for reassessing progress, position and measuring success of the movement, in order to determine a launch date
