# Newsletter Monday May 11 2020

## Summary items from last week:

What is it we want to achieve, as individuals and as a group? The participants of last week's gathering left recordings on our Telegram group. Here are some soundbytes:

- "How can we create practices that can hep people **recognize** when they go around in circles instead of growing, and how to catalyze growth from there. How **to do this in groups**?"
- "Create an epistemic architecture based on human dialogue. On Earth Day 2021 we woud **bring together worldwide communities** from academia, citizen-scientists, open source (think Wikipedia), arts communities would meet. A smaller scale version is planned for July 26. Subjects mentioned are covid-19 and climate change."
- "Round table **discussion** about different aspects of **collective intelligence** and meme-ifying that to smaller and smaller units, chunks of wisdom."
- "Having a **group** **collect signals and drivers** allowing to build possible futures (not necessarily preferred futures), and having **socratic discussions** about our presuppositions in order to be more open and creative and to engage into actions for a better future."
- "Organizing webinars where **people would do something together** in new ways."
- "Organizing an open learning commons for people engaging in **emerging ways of learning and co-working** so they can learn from each other."

We also had discussions about these subjects in virtual break-out rooms.

## Potential agenda items for this week:
* Discuss and continue to iterate on our preferred conversational structures during our meetings
* Gameshifting is likely a good lens to continue playing with for this.
* What do we name our modes of conversation/play, as patterns, and where do we specify what they imply about how we agree to play together when we "shift" into them? (What/where is our playbook?)
* It seems we've naturally shifted into needing more space for multiple parallel conversations.

* **Show and tell** segment where everyone shows off a bit of what they've been working on during the last week, or anything that they discovered and wanted to bring into the meeting. We might want to resist diving into any threads that emerge during show and tell, so that everyone can take their turn and put something on the table. We can always pick those threads back up later in our meeting.

* Fedwiki
* Robert wants to show his latest use of it with pattern languages, and propose that we start using it more deliberately as a community of practice together.
* For developing our own patterns together, possibly packaging them up into decks of our own.
* The documentation game / storycrafters
* Peeragogy Roles
* MetaCAugs Roles?
* Money Moving Memes - economic simulations
* bioregion
* poker game
* open space, conference, school
* etc

* COVID discussion

Some regular participants would like to discuss the COVID-19 crisis, for instance the issue of effective testing and the use (or lack of use) of that. Or we could discuss questions such as:

- how do we feel about mass-collection of data in order to manage this crisis- what do we think about globalization and the effect this has on the spreading of pandemics

- what do we think about the perspective of a planet with ten billion people on it, often living in mega-cities in huge concentrations

- what do we think about our destruction of the wilderness and the incorporation of elements of that wilderness (such as animals) into the human habitat

These questions are often relevant for other, similarly big questions, such as the danger of bioterrorism or climate change. 

## Robert also rewrote the pinned message on our Telegram forum, a great summary of places where you can find traces of what we do:

MetaCAugs is a peer learning group within a broader P2P learning ecosystem supported by @Open_Learning_Commons
**We meet weekly on Tuesdays @ 3PM ET at this zoom link (https://zoom.us/j/903709439)**.
You can subscribe to this recurring event, from your local timezone, using the Open Learning Commons calendar (https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=n9q2hnr8lh3223ul1rc6pohms8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FToronto) if you like
We also have a community space (https://riot.im/app/#/group/+metacaugs:matrix.org) on Matrix/Riot, if you'd prefer to chat there. All the rooms in that community space also appear within the Open Learning Commons (https://riot.im/app/#/group/+open_learning_commons:matrix.org) community space on Riot too.

We also have a dedicated curation channels here on Telegram at @CoCuration , and also on Matrix/Riot (https://riot.im/app/#/room/!fFCJAJolCsntDlQFgs:matrix.org?via=matrix.org).
These channels are subscribed to the feeds produced by:
* a Refind.com collection (https://refind.com/Bortseb/metacaugs) called MetaCAugs which you can become a collaborator on using this link (https://refind.com/Bortseb/metacaugs?join=40f35517c741de57).
* a public Hypothes.is tag: #MetaCAugs
* our [Diigo Group](https://groups.diigo.com/group/metacaugs/)

Recordings/Documentation of our prior meetings exist in a few different spaces online:

* Our recorded Zoom sessions get stored in a playlist on YouTube
(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvoAN4N_ANNiRypA8-DrMhiRjuUjmlMHt)
* Our collaborative notes on HackMD (https://hackmd.io/team/MetaCAugs) (Request to have your HackMD email added to our team)
* Our Otter.ai transcriptions (https://otter.ai/group/34692) (Request to have your Otter.ai email added to our group)
* Our Miro Map (https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kwyBtRA=/), within the Open Learning Commons Miro team (https://miro.com/welcome/hlFyYW0pYUIzlcPhYMvkeZqX1hR8rsDj3WYYWcfWpO1p1DqNqi3PLwcF7jP3aUUP).

Onward!

The MetaCAugs team

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