The virtual attendee(s) group (282)
- Partcipant(s) (283)
- PeterYim (self assigned as scribe too) (284)
- I am the principal at CIM3, and our mission is "to enable more effective distributed collaboration and virtual enterprise through bootstrapping collective intelligence over the Internet". This http://colab.cim3.net workspace is one of the results of the team effort between our collaborative work environment ("cwe") development team, and the eGov folks like Susan and Brand. I am also a member of the OASIS-UBL TC, and a co-convener of the Ontolog-Forum, an international open community of practice on business domain ontologies. (28E)
Subject: CoP Best Practice - with focus on distributed collaboration (28F)
- The Task Question is: What do we need? (28G)
- get the "Attitude towards Sharing" right! (Bravo! to PeterGroen's work he presented just now.) (2AO)
- A shared display and a good facilitator. Citing the work by the IBIS people (Horst Rittle / Jeff Conklin): " … on tackling 'wicked problems': it's about arriving at a shared commitment, with a shared understanding, augmented by a shared display and a facilitator." (2AQ)
- segregate the "discipline and rigidity" for machine-systems to interoperate, from the "expressivity" that is needed for people to interoperate, and make sure we support BOTH (2C2)
- Spur CoP into Open Virtual Enterprises (OVE's) - moving "collaboration" forward to "innovation", in organizational structures like the Fishnet Organization. (2AR)
- How would Best Practice help us? (28H)
- be efficient with the research on what works and what doesn't (28J)
- be able to benchmark our work against what's best out there (28K)
- to learn these "Best Practices" and adapt/adopt them for our own use (28L)
- adapt: build upon them, thus allowing us to "see further" by "standing on the shoulders of giants" (28M)
- adopt: very effective, especially in areas that is not our core competence - we can then save our resources to put into our areas that we need to focus in. (28N)
- Develop a list - Best Practices in CoP Distributed Collaboration (28I)
- Sourceforge - home of 85,925 registered open source software projects and 901,288 registered users - http://sourceforge.net/ (28O)
- what's great about them: the infrastructure they have put together, that makes them almost the defacto home for open source software; the traction they've managed to build (28T)
- the Apache community of open source software projects - http://www.apache.org/ (28P)
- what's great about them: the quality of their projects (28U)
- OASIS - a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards - http://www.oasis-open.org/ (28V)
- AC/UNU Millenium Project - a global participatory futures research think tank - http://www.acunu.org/ (28X)
- what's great about them: their ability to engage over 20 countries, over 1500 smart people and policy makers, and sustained for more than 12 years, published some of the best futures research literature, and managed to do that on a shoe-string budget (28Y)
- (trying - can't say it's a best practice yet, but I'd say it's worth looking at) - the CIM3.NET Collaborative Work Environment - as used in cases like: COLAB, ONTOLOG & MP-SOFI & this high school robtoics team. (297)
- what's great about them: it takes people as a part (and a central part) of the system and try to augment them in their work; tools optimized for communities of practice and distributed project teams; it's supports the entire spectrum of users - from the everyday computer users to the computer gurus; and some of the innovative ways and processes that these tools have been applied (like supporting workshops; conference calls; best-of- lists; etc.) (298)
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