one week to accelerator launch

[Joe Corneli]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLMm8-K8aoA is a video of the last "unofficial" Accelerator meeting for a while.  This is a quick 10 minute meeting w/ Paola, Dorotea, Charlie, and Joe, and it gives a sense of the different kinds of projects that are likely to run this quarter.  We're well warmed up and excited to run the first Accelerator series!

For those who plan to join these *official* Accelerator meetings, some contributed and emergent plans are here: http://titanpad.com/peeragogymanifesto

Thanks a bunch to those who have added to that document already - it's proving to be a very useful place to organize our efforts.  If you haven't yet added a description of your plans and projects for June/July/August (and beyond), please consider taking a few minutes to do that, and let's think about how we can help each other make progress.

The first Official Accelerator meeting is next week at 6PM UK time (10AM Pacific) on Monday, June 2nd, 2014.  Feel free to drop in to see what it's all about, join in, or wish newcomers well.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/104434173211092362220/104434173211092362220/posts/5hdxDswsVYt is the event listing on G+

That day and time has not been ideal for everyone, so if you'd like to join but can't make that time, please let us know about alternative times that work for you!   We have enough people and energy to have a second meeting time - traditionally on Wednesdays at 9PM UK, but that can be shifted.  Also, Hangouts has been unusable for some people with bandwidth limitations, so let's look into using an alternate medium (like chatb.org, Skype, or phone-based FreeConference) for the second meeting.

An overall plan for the Quarter is here: http://commonsabundance.net/groups/peeragogy/ - we will work through the Peeragogy in Action syllabus that we wrote earlier, http://peeragogy.org/peeragogy-in-action/ at a strolling pace, building new patterns as we go.  We'll also collect things we learn for v3 of the Handbook, which will be launched in January. 

I will not usually BCC all Handbook authors with updates, but I did on this email, since this is a big update!  We think the Accelerator will be a leap forward for the project.  To stay apprised of routine project communications and further Accelerator news, please join the mailing list at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/peeragogy (note, you'll have to join to reply to this email - or write to me directly).

Best,

Joe