Sign-Up

Anyone can follow a study group on P2PU. Participating is the next level of engagement. The sign-up is a space where interested individuals can express their interest and background in the topic and commit to working with the rest of the participants. Please answer the following set(s) of questions if you want to become a participant or organizer.

Standard Set

This set of signup questions is common to all study groups, courses, ... in P2PU. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.

Answers

• 
  WilliamtHancock   Nov. 2, 2011, 3:03 a.m.

  Bio:

  Born and raised in Nashville, TN, now a west coast nor-cal denizen.  I'm most interested in Heaven on Earth & Heaven within!  

  Let us live, create, and be heroically~

  Location: Nevada City, CA

  Standard Set Answer:

  - I am interested in this topic because I'm engaged in designing cutting-edge educational curriculum, as well as design in a number of other areas of human interest.

  -I hope to see if the tools offered in this course will be of use to my current missions.

  

• 
  Karen by   Oct. 18, 2011, 7:09 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Houston, TX

  Standard Set Answer:

  What made you interested in this topic?

  I'm interested in the idea of providing a structure for others to innovate as a theory that can be applied to many roles. I'm especially interested in exploring ways to approach artistic practice, teaching, and small scale real estate development.

   

  What do you hope to achieve by participating?

  This would be my first p2pu course, so I hope to get hooked and gain motivation to do more.

  I also want to come away with some developed ideas for implementing the course content in things that I do & want to pursue.

   

  Are you interested in helping with the study group organization?

  I don't really know what that means or entails.

• 
  ok-11   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:26 a.m.

  Bio:

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  -I absolutely LOVE innovating, and am in the process of going back to school to get my engineering degree (possible masters+). I have a passion in business development, improving the human condition, mind-computer (BCI) interfaces, robotics, renewable energy (wind/hydro power), chemistry, electrical circuitry and finally neuroprosthetics,.

  -I hope to understand the process of prototyping and innovation, and better myself for a future business.

  -I will do my best to help out, however don't know how much I could yet :)

• 
  Ana Coelho   Sept. 2, 2011, 11:09 a.m.

  Bio:

  Hi! I'm a 23 y.o. Chemistry student in love with Plastic Electronics. I want to learn...well, everything I can, about everything there is.
  I live in sunny Lisbon with my boyfriend and two cats.

  Location: Lisbon, Portugal

  Standard Set Answer:

  I'm finishing up my studies and have no idea what I'll do with my 7 years of college. I'm interested in applying what i've learned to practical ideas in sustainable/ecological technologies. but don't know how to start without high-tech infrastructures and guidance.

  So, I'm looking for pratical knowledge in how to create new technologies without the support of an university lab, and hopefully learn how to do some pratical projects of my own.

  Seeing as I feel very unexperienced and all my knowledge is theoretical, I'm not sure I can be of any help. But if I feel I have something to contribute, I'll try to do so.

• 
  Brock LeMieux   Aug. 29, 2011, 3:19 p.m.

  Bio:

  A digital Knowmad who thinks in terms of people over place and likes to experiment in bringing the two together. My current question? How do we design emotionally engaging learning experiences for business and education? I like to think of myself as a learning designer (sounds fancy, right?) I am extremely fascinated with the future/now of learning.  

  Location: Oslo, Norway

  Standard Set Answer:

         I have been interested in the open innovation culture companies can create both internally and through the products/services they can co-create through collaborating with others. Like my bio says, my biggest question is:  How do we design emotionally engaging learning experiences for business and education? 

         I believe this can be explored through learning to play, creatively. That's what I spend a lot of my time researching. When I'm not doing that, I'm giving workshops, presentations, hosting events (pop-up 'learning spaces/do tank' style things) as well as creating a service design/design thinking community and I hope these projects can be enhanced through taking part in this learning experience. I hope to connect with others focused on things like these as well as related topics; for anything from good dialogue/knowledge sharing to potential collaboration. I also hope to recieve support/motivation/feedback for my own research and projects and also hope to share this.

       I would love to help organize! In a way, I feel this learning experience needs to be co-created in order to be truly successful! 

• 
  JDAnsley   Aug. 24, 2011, 8:51 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Orlando, Florida

  Standard Set Answer:

  I have a specialization in innovation with my MBA and am curious about how learning about innovation can occur in an open enviroment.  

  At this time I am not interested in facilitating the course due to personal time constaints.

  Thank you.

  Jason Ansley

• 
  Stew   Aug. 17, 2011, 3:22 p.m.

  Bio: High school entrepreneurship teacher.

  Location: Chicago

  Standard Set Answer:

  1. Interested in innovation 2. Hoping I can create a global project for my students 3. No
• 
  Sergio Camilo   Aug. 3, 2011, 7:13 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Colombia

  Standard Set Answer:

  Cause now i'm studying mechanical engineering

  i wait my ideas could be useful

  Yes

• 
  Anonym   Aug. 1, 2011, 1:33 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: USA

  Standard Set Answer:

  What made you interested in this topic? I have an entrepreneurial spirit

  What do you hope to achieve by participating? Gain knowledge about new potential business ideas

  Are you interested in helping with the study group organization? Not sure, this is my first course on P2PU - just getting a feel for this.

• 
  Saumil   July 26, 2011, 3:33 p.m.

  Bio:

  I work as a Software Developer in iGate Global Solution in Bangalore, India.

  Did my Engg. in Computer Sci. from BMS College in Bangalore, India

  Location: Bangalore, India

  Standard Set Answer:

  Really appreciate collabrative power of human brain, and it does wonders when the thinking is influenced under peer pressure of bringing out very innovative ideas for the mass. The course description sounds interesting in a sense that its innovation strategy is based on open-source technologies which provides a level-playing field between the independent developers and the mighty software giants in the quest of innovating new products.

  I am also under a great influence of learning technology called "moddle", been beating around its bush for quite sometime and thinking of innovating a business model which supports cognitive learning for masses.

  I guess I would achieve a deeper insight into the innovation needed for today's highly collabrative world, which needs business models supporting collabrative work as its stepping stone.

  Yes, definately interested in study group org.

• 
  Camara   July 26, 2011, 1:54 a.m.

  Bio:
  

  Location: Curepipe, Maurice

  Standard Set Answer:

  - ecology

  - create a company

  - Yes

• 
  Dante-Gabryell Monson   July 12, 2011, 1:37 p.m.

  Bio:

  Post-Neo-Nomad ;)

  http://hitchwiki.org/en/Dante

  https://plus.google.com/107939153472003082159

  Location: Brussels

  Standard Set Answer:

  I am involved in various networks of individuals supporting open source, distributed approaches to innovation,

  including in the field of post-industrial manufacturing.

  Personally my research has been in the field of complementary currencies.

  I wish to support the deveopment of certain information systems that can reclaim interdependencies through hybrid metadata ( including current mainstream currency ) created through p2p contracts,

  hence an attempt to understand how to develop tools for contract graphs in the realm of social semantic graphs : http://sharewiki.org/en/Transaction_Graphs

  I also feel a need to converge "entre-donneurs" ( "in between giving", as opposed to "entre-preneurs", which in french means "in between taking" ) and live together in collectives.

  One of my aims is to develop housing cooperatives, such as in Leipzig, as to facilitate such collaborative living space :

   

  http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project

• 
  Juliana   July 11, 2011, 7:50 p.m.

  Bio:

  I'm a Mechatronics engineer of the Ecole National d'Ingenieurs de Brest (ENIB) in France.
  
  Skills to develop advanced cell systems and flexible production, including design andcomputer aided manufacturing (CAD, CIM, CAM), using discrete simulation, quality engineering, group technology and manufacturing systems such as "Lean Production"Design, transform and validate algorithms to solve problems using logic and programming languages, Databases or Computer Modeling.

  With a comprehensive vision for the management of mechatronic systems, able to communicate fluently in English, French and a basic level in German, with analytical,creative development of new technological solutions, capable of teamwork, leadershipthe management of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary groups, with a solid scientific and technical foundation, supported by the exact sciences, economics, socialsciences and humanities that develops skills that ensure success in managing projects for the improvement and automation of equipment or processes contributing the socioeconomic development of domestic industries in a globalized environment.

  Location: Colombia

  Standard Set Answer:

  dd

• 
  Peterttp   July 8, 2011, 11:59 p.m.

  Bio:

  Location: Malaysia

  Standard Set Answer:

  I am involved in innovation and strategy consulting. I think I have ideas to contribute.

• 
  Ralph Kerle   July 3, 2011, 4:18 a.m.

  Bio:

  I am the Chairman of the Creative Leadership Forum that has over 10,000 on line members globally and designed and developed the Management Innovation Index, a way of benchmarking and measuring creativity in organizations.

  Location: Sydney Australia

  Standard Set Answer:

  • What made you interested in this topic?

  The area of innovation is my vocation.

  • What do you hope to achieve by participating?

  I am keenly interested in understanding how it might be possible to develop on-line learning programmes around creativity and innovation.

  • Are you interested in helping with the study group organization?

  Absolutely in any way I can be of assistance.

• 
  Niels Sprong   June 27, 2011, 5:09 p.m.

  Bio:

  Organiser of "Poker and Strategic Thinking" in the pilot phase of p2pu (blog http://blogs.p2pu.org/poker/). For interest in or questions about this course PM me.
  
  Facilitator of Kitchen Science in second cycle.
  
  Planning to run UNU OCW  Innovation Studies and Development courses on this site in the near future.
   

  Location:

  Standard Set Answer:

  - I believe taking 'open source' collaborative practices into the rest of the world can increase total value added of global economic practices, counterbalances current and future moves toward greater individualism, will lead to quicker diffusion of sustainable innovations, and is just pretty awesome. 

  - I hope to be able to contribute to this.

  -Yup. Where I can I'd love to.

• 
  Mike   June 26, 2011, 8:59 p.m.

  Bio:

  Master's student at Carleton University in Ottawa researching and implementing collaborative platforms based on coordination around a shared object.  Also in the midst of starting up a company, Cornerportal.

  Location: Ottawa

  Standard Set Answer:

  This topic is quite similar to what we have been working on here for the last year.  Therefore it would be quite interesting to compare notes and learn from an independent group of like minded individuals.  If I can make a contribution to the effort, I would be interested and willing to help with the study group organization.

• 
  Vigrond   June 24, 2011, 3:18 p.m.

  Bio:

  A work-at-home developer in Fresno, CA 

  Location: Fresno, CA

  Standard Set Answer:

  I have been involved with the "hashtag" shared space here in Fresno, CA.

   

  I am also a entrepreneural developer, always looking for new ways and methods to improve upon ideas.

   

  I am usually always online during my workdays, and even my off days, so if any simple study group organizational tasks are needed, feel free to ask ^^

   

  -Robert