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-Please propose changes here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/hmmm_openki_workshop_at_decentrale_16_sept_2017_2
+Please propose changes here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/hmmm_openki_workshop_at_decentrale_16_sept_2017_3
 https://wiki.openki.net/doku.php?id=public:q_a
+Openki FAQ
-Version 2
+Version 3
-====== Questions & Answers ======
+===== Questions & Answers =====
-The goal of these Questions and Answers is to open up the project for interested People and make collaboration as easy as possible.
+  * Basic information for Users should be in the FAQ, currently at https://openki.net/FAQ.        stuff to update: https://github.com/Openki/Openki/issues/943
-Most Information should be accessible for everyone.
-If information is missing, pls help us to add it.  by adding your Question
-Please add [FIXME] tags if things are unclear
-  * Basic information for normal Users should be in the FAQ, currently at https://openki.net/FAQ.
   * Non public information should be in the internal part of this wiki. accessible for collaborators only.
   * Technical information (coders, sysadmins, admins) is in the github Wiki: https://github.com/Openki/Openki/wiki
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+===== ABOUT PROJECT / VISION / VALUES =====
-===== ABOUT PROJECT /VISION /VALUES =====
+==== What is Openki's Vision? ====
-==== What is the vision of Openki? ====
+  * create a tool for self-organization, one that will be itself a model for other self-organizational tools and one that empowers people.
+  * bring together and connect groups and initiatives to foster an exchange of knowledge and experiences
+  * To loosen up the "roles" and hierarchies in the learning process
+  * To lower the barriers in educational processes
+  * we want the courses to be affordable and accessible to everyone
+  * self-determination and an autonomous acting of Openki
+  * transparency, non-profit
+  * We want to have this nicely formulated and there is already a proposed workshop for this. (https://openki.net/course/4XeLcJqfGWhQ4mrug/vision-for-openki)
-things:
+We want to create a tool for self-organization one that will be a model itself for other self-organizational tools and one that empowers people. Openki wants to bring together groups and initiatives in order to foster an exchange of knowledge and experiences. Openki loosens to roles and hierarchies in general learning processes as opposed to classical educational programms (language courses, schools, universities etc.) and lowers the barriers to learn from each other. We think that education should be accessible to everyone, we therefore want the courses to be affordable and open to everyone.
-  * create a tool for self-organization, one that will be itself a model for other self-organization tools. in order to empower people.
+Openki should always stay a self-determined and autonomous project, we want to be as transparent as possible and don't want to make a profit with this project.
-  * bring together and interconnect groups and initiatives, exchange of knowledge and experiences
-- To loosen up the "roles" in the learning process
-- A political assembly would fit? Is decision-making a learning process? It should be! (we make clear what is about and to accommodate such processes, it is actually important to make people imagine such meetings as p2p learning processes)
-- Lowering the barriers allow an easy access to education
-- we want the courses to be affordable and accesible to anyone
-- self-determination and an autonomous acting of openki
-- transparency, non-profit
-We want to have this nicely formulated and there is already a proposed workshop for this. (https://openki.net/course/4XeLcJqfGWhQ4mrug/vision-for-openki)
+==== What is Openki's Philosophy? ====
+Our goal was to create a platform that can be used for self-organised education and knowledge exchange. On the platform itself we offer a frame derived from that idea. Our ambition is to develop a platform that enables everybody to contribute respecting our core values LINK. We are in contact with other participatory projects and try to learn from them as well.
+The platform itself does not give much indication of the theories and philosophies of alternatives to the insititutionalised school system. Is your goal to simply create a platform to be used in any way possible, or also to promote ideas about deschooling and convivial knowledge exchange? In which case a more informative/inspirational shell needs to be created around the platform itself.
+Suggesion for concrete(r) questions for this above mentioned question: [FIXME] What are the theories, philosophical traditions you referenciate on?
+[FIXME]Is openki political? What is your vision in terms of a political aspect?
+On the platform itself we only give a framing derived from that background
+We have ambitions to create this context arround the platform, necessary to enable everybody to contribute. not only to
+part of the answer as well is that from observing other participatory projects: the academic discourse is blocking lot of people to use it.
+==== What is Openki's goal/ aim? ====
+Our goal is to stimulate knowledge exchange and self-organized education and leraning structures, which are accessible to everyone
+We want the skills to be shared and transferred between people.
+Our main goal is to make education accessible to everyone and share experience.
+Is it to have someone responsible for putting up courses/events or to have the groups/people putting them online themselves?
+The main aim is the tool itself with the objective of allowing self-empowerment/self-organization of people. the other activities ar subsequent results of this aim.
-==== Why is it opensource? ====
-[fixme] Openki free software: that means everybody that makes changes to the code has again to publish the improovements for everybody to be used.
-==== What is the aim of Openki ====
-Is it to have someone responsible for putting up courses/events or to have the groups/people putting them online themselves?
-The main aim is the tool itself with the objective of allowing self-empowerment/self-organization(?) of people. the other activities ar subsequent results of this aim.
-make education accessible to everyone? Share experience with anyone?
 Offer support for users
 There are two use cases:
   - someone (e.g., a venue owner, group-member) organizing courses: Openki makes it easier for people to know about their events and participate (Calender, Webframe, Infoscreens)
   - stimulate participation of non-experts and create a self-organization ecosystem (in this case everybody propose courses in a self organized way where openki collective would not [participate] / moderate -> self-empowerment
+==== Could Openki serve as an open repository of "skills" and/or resources? ====
+No. (Sure it could but it is not.) We need a very clearly visible usecase for Openki in order to help people easily understand what Openki is about.
+We want the skills to be shared and transferred. Knowledge should spread and we dont want to simply help to get in contact with people who can do things "for us".
+Of course you can search courses for mentors/specialits that you might want to contact and get their skills. Users can not yet add skills to their profile. However, in their profile you find courses they mentored/are mentoring.
+====  How open or worried are you in terms of opening the use-case (Anwendungsmöglichkeiten)? ====
+It would worry us a bit if other people would use it for other objectives other than organizing courses. Because if you browse the Webpage it is already hard to understand "What does openki do for you"
+In other words it could give wrong ideas if usecases mix up too much. We feel a need to focus on learning and education
+So, at the moment, we don't see that it would make sense to open&broaden the use-case in the next years (for example proposing "projects" in stead of "courses").
+Many Years ago, we had an other project called "OpenConcept" (everybody could propose projects, ex cultural (theater) ,techincal, political etc.) The application Openki could be used for that as well. Although we still like that idea very much, we can't promote it.
+It seems that even our understanding of "learning" might be already too broad and we need to narrow it down in order to avoid confusions. Because of course we do not want to promote education in its old understanding - but learning in a broader sense: mutual sharing of experience and knowledge. So discussing ideas is an important part of learning and we want to promote such "assembly"-stlye of courses.
-===== COMMUNITIY/ OUTREACH /Communication / PR =====
-==== How do you organize outreach? ====
+==== What are we? Movement, Community etc.  ====
-We started making partnerships and collaborations, and haven't started an outreach process, but have had some presentations. Outreach to other organizations that would be interesting to connect mentors/participants to Openki or outreach to organization that could provide money/other resources (e.g. building/rooms)?
+Everything! We achieve our vision by creating the tool. The tool needs a community. To build a community we need the movement.
-There's not yet a communication workgroup active, people in the core group are shy/modest/humble :-)
+We are a vision. To achieve this we create a tool. The tool itself wont do, we need to spread the vision (a movement) and we need a social framing (the community).
-The workload is too high and capacity still low to develop and maintain the project, and we're doing it all voluntary
+Values->  Goal -> Tool  ->  Organization  -> Community  -> Movement  -> Idea  -> Goal
-We think it's not yet ready for mass publicity
-It is important to spread the word because other people might start the same project in parallel, and we need to be visible (to know at least that such a project takes place).
+==== Why is it opensource? ====
-==== How can people know about openki? ====
-There's a list of webpages which link to Openki
-Physical locations and project in which openki is in use (e.g., Autonomous School)
-Word of mouth, and physical presentations.
-==== How do you connect with on the ground, physical communities who already are practicing alternative learning? ====
-The project was born inside such an activist community (Autonomous schools)
-Connection is through networking. we would love to have more capacity for such collaborations
-We organized an unconference for autonomous education last year where we invited different international groups. we are participating in different events/conferences.  (Chaos Congress, Border scapes conference in Lesbos, Aarhus Other activist networks...  Personal networks....
-spread the idea in networks we are in.
-http://about.openki.net/?cat=10
-==== What is the target group? ====
-In contrast to the answer about the usecase (narrowing down to learning) here the answer is "everyone".
-people who are interested in learning and teaching, people who want to freely share knowledge...
-All Topics: Subculture, youthtopics, fineart, DIY, elderly people, academics, political, sportentusiasts, philosophic...
-(see question "What are the possible subjects that courses can be organized about?" in FAQ)
-Examples of projects that can use Openki:
-  * activist projects, reading groups, offspaces, makerlabs, hackerspaces, youthcenters, academic groups, squats, migrantprojects,
-  * dedicated installations of the software for
-    * collectives/companies
-    * alternative schools
-    * barcamps, unconferences, ....
-We would like to keep the topics diverse but there are 3 important (open) criteria for the actual thresholds of acceptance for projects/concepts:
-- Tolerance - We are clear that we don't accept discriminatory content.
-- Commercial  -  We want our courses to be accessible for everyone, so expensive and/or fixed price courses are not welcome (indicative price is allowed [as long as someone has the freedom to choose their participation level] <-?)
-- Professionalism - do we want companies to participate, professional teachers? OK for companies to use Openki internally?
-What is the benefit for (more or less professional) teachers? How do we ensure quality? (difficult answer -> separate session)
-Quality scope and challenge that openness could bring for the users at the point of valuing the quality of the different options when having such diversity. <- ?
-====  It cannot be 'everyone' - Who is your target audience? ====
-  because if "everyone" is the case, your target audience is hubs that gather people into communities. <-?
-first and most important peers are: possible promoters, multipliers, and people collaborating and giving feedback
-alternative education enthusiasts, groups that have similar visions.
-As we want to bring our Idea of alternativeEducation and selforganisation to a brought audience we want to reach far beyond that peergroup. ==> Question 1: Who is the target audience? Question 2: How to reach this audience (for example the audience far away from the peergroup) Also: What caracteristics should physical communities have (or should they not have) to connect with/ be part of Openki (e.g. to inform on Openki about already existing courses)?
 [FIXME]
-https://openki.net/course/P6KRoKCkpPF26gM6k
+Openki free software: that means everybody that makes changes to the code has again to publish the improvements for everybody to be used.
+It is opensource so everyone can change or work on the code and use it.
-==== Is there a wikipedia page? ====
+==== What is the legal organization of openki? ====
-No, but it is a good idea. Feel free to create one :-)  and watch out it's not gonna be a stup or rejected (because aferwards it will become more difficult to create one)
+Behind Openki there is the association KOPF" (Kurs/Course Organisation PlatForm).
+Openki is registered as a Swiss "Verein" which is an Association. We are called "Verein KOPF" (Course Organisation PlatForm).  By law "Vereins" are democratically managed and non profit but still allow great flexibility. We are tax-exempt by the Kanton of Zurich. The "Verein" is now a means to an end: As a "Verein" we can manage our bank account more easily.
+[FIXME]
+A Verein needs Statuten?
+Maybe it would be more transparent to have a link to see them and the structure of the Verein (for those who are interested).
+==== Is the platform for organizing physical events only or also for e-learning? ====
+The focus is on physical events but it is possible to organize courses that take place online.
+==== Did you consider transforming the 'Verein' into a cooperative? ====
+We're having dicussions about that. It might be a model financing Openki, but we're unsure of what is a 'counter value' for the cooperative mebers.
+Todo Juanse: Pros and cons of becoming a coop associated to BotC
-===== HISTORY/ ABOUT DEVELOPMENT =====
+==== What is the difference from Openki to other learning platforms? ====
-===== SUSTAINABILITY/PLAN/GOALS  =====
-==== What financial needs do you have? ====
-CHF p/month fix for expenses and infrastructure: 800 € p/month for the room + 80€ server and domain names + 200 food
-.000 CHF/month would be a budget for self-employment for the current workteam, following Swiss standards.
-.000 CHF/month would be required for general purposes of the project [FIXME] for example...?
-===== COLLABORATIONS =====
-==== Do you have partners/official support? ====
-Dedicated session proposed on the topic: https://openki.net/course/x8zDHqA7GMmRyvdS3/openki-collaboration-partners-network
-At the "About" page there's a list of partners (mainly "friends" projects). http://about.openki.net/?page_id=554&lang=en
-On-going collaboration with Autonomous Schule Zurich, Kunsthalle, NetHood, and ImpactHub (co-located in the same building)
-The ASZ courses: https://openki.net/group/90aa41f3
-For Kunsthalle: https://openki.net/course/BERAsieNHEghHZW84/openki-x-kunsthalle-zrich
-==== How open or worried are you in terms of opening the use-case? ====
-On Openki.net
-We don't see that it would make sense to open&broghten the use-case in the next year (for example proposing projects).
-We feel a need to focus on learning and education
-- Many Years ago, we had an other project called "OpenConcept" (everybody could propose projects, ex cultural (theater) ,techincal, political etc.) Openki could be used for that aswell. Although we still like that idea very much we dont want to promote it
-- today: even learning might be already too broad and we need to narrow it down in order to avoid confussions.
-But of course we do not want to promote education in its old understanding - but learning in a broader sense: mutual sharing of experience and knowledge and within this of course discussing ideas is an important part of learning
-It would worry us a bit if other people would use it for other objectives other than organizing courses. Because if you browse the Webpage it is already hard to understand "What does openki do for you"
-In other words it could give wrong ideas if usecases mix up too much.
-==== How would do you see the case of code-modifications from third parties? ====
-If other people copy or fork it and create their own variations, we would be very happy.
-However, we have not the capacity to support such initiatives.
-===== (RATHER FOR USER, MISC) =====
-==== What is the difference to other learning platforms? ====
  (e.g., the publicschool.org, classery, dodiz http://www.tradeschool.coop/  moodle, meetup, )
 there's a complex comparison work in our dossier
 depends to which you compare. we dont know of a platform that does the same.
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 - It's free to use
-=== Do you know what kind of communication tools are used by existing alternative learning groups? How Openki compares to Meetup, Moodle, ...... ? ===
+====  What was the intention/idea behind showing passed courses also on the startpage? ====
-analouge, telegram, facebookpage...
+Our core idea about the courses is that they are never really finished. Learning processes continue and so should the possibility to go on with a course.
+From our perspective a course is an idea or a topic that one could learn about, and participants could spin-off events at any time.
+ In this sence a "passed" course can become new again.
+==== How is the administrators' decision making process? ====
+e.g. banning a course. How open is it for the community to participate?
+Everybody can report a problem (highly generic) that people could use to report misbehaviour and inappropriate content. The administrators then have to make a decision. Until today there have not been such cases reported, and thus there is not a decision-making structure defined nor implemented. In the future we are open to ideas of having assemblies or other participatory forms of collective democratic decision-making.
+===== What's the strategy, what is considered important? ====
+We are working on parallel paths.
+Different topics depend on each other: there is no community whitout a good app. there is no good app without a community, there is no community without an elaborated vision.
+The core team's mood and cowork is relevant for the direcction and development of Openki.
+Important is to regulary focus on tasks that might get forgotten or that have been not taken enough into consideration.
+==== How do you protect from commercial appropriation? ====
+(of the project itself or from commercial alternatives as in the case of couchsurfing and airbnb)?
+The Project itself: We won't sell Openki (unless everybody would decide collaboratively)
+The Source Code anyway we can not be sold. It is opensourced under AGPL Lincense.
+The domains .ch .org .net .de .fr are reserved.
+The Idea itself can be adapted by everyone and we can stop commercial companies of appropriating the idea.
+We have three related courses to discuss further in our Openki-Group:
+    https://openki.net/course/tTzrXfdZ58qk42vAu/openki-und-geld
+    https://openki.net/course/BJXJ2GYHTfDWgJWvH/openkibusinessplan
+    https://openki.net/course/XGRPm6YS8gCQQcLcT/openki-risiken
+==== How is the platform administrated? ====
+At the moment we are a central team of administrators in OpenkiHeadquaters in Zurich.
+The primary goal is a decentralized administration.
+We feel inspired by diffenent models that we'd like to combine
+  * the  "stackoverflow.com"-model: Users are assigned certain administrative tasks, and the more they participate and more "reputation" they build, the more their rights increase to edit more stuff.
+  * Regional/Local Networks of People (Maybe with defined user roles like: Moderator Ambassadors...)
+  * Sociocraty, Voting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
+==== could you imagine a version / space for children (maybe moderated) ? ====
+Option for Child Care (monitored) during the time of the workshop. A tag every course could either have or not, same with accessibility for wheelchairs.
+====What courses can I put on Openki?====
+[FIXME]!
+ * Would a political assembly fit? Is decision-making a learning process? It should be! (we make clear what it is about and to accommodate such processes, it is actually important to make people imagine such meetings as p2p learning processes)
+===== History  =====
+====  Since when does Openki exist? ====
+In January 2010 we started to work on Openki.
+In 2009 we created an extremly rudimental Webpage 'schuel.dot.ch'. The idea was that people could add their courses online an find participants.
+In January 2010 we started to work on the concept of Openki. The big difference is that people can also propose courses now, where they will attend als participants and not as mentors.
+After a break of one year, we started coding in November 2012.
+==== When did you decide for the name Openki? ====
+[FIXME]
+==== How many courses have taken place organised on Openki? ====
+Lot of courses mainly from ASZ and denk:mal have been put on Openki. They were included as events but not organized on the platform itself.
+Courses that have been primarly proposed on openki and went through the whole process are not many.
+[FIXME!
-==== How do you get financed? ====
+===== COMMUNITIY/ OUTREACH /Communication / PR =====
-The present budget comes exclusively from donations. (solidarity funds and private persons). The only regular income is 100/month from ASZ. See http://about.openki.net/?page_id=1036&lang=en
+==== What is the target group? ====
+Openki is for everybody, who wants to freely share knowledge and is interested in learning and teaching.
+The interests of the people concerning the contents of the course can be very diverse, however should respect certain common values like antiracism aand antisexism, etc
+We want to have as little barriers as possible to make it easy for people to join.
-Related courses on the long-term sustainability of the project:
+All Topics: Subculture, youthtopics, fineart, DIY, elderly people, academics, political, sportentusiasts, philosophic...
-https://openki.net/course/BJXJ2GYHTfDWgJWvH/openkibusinessplan
+(see question "What are the possible subjects that courses can be organized about?" in FAQ)
-https://openki.net/course/tTzrXfdZ58qk42vAu/openki-und-geld
+====  [FIXME] What kind of users is Openki looking for?  ====
+ As Openki is still in a beginning phase, we cannot yet target "everybody", as we lack the necessary resources. In this phase its primarily peers that we are trying to involve in this project: possible promoters and multipliers, people who want to collaborate and give feedback to improve Openki, education enthusiasts and groups that have similar visions. In a later phase we want to reach beyond that peergroup - generally people who are interested in learning and teaching, people who want to freely share knowledge: subculture, youthtopics, DIY, elderly people, academincs, political people, sports enthusiasts, philosophers etc.
+If you want to share you thoughts on Openki's target group, join the course below: https://openki.net/course/P6KRoKCkpPF26gM6k
-current balance is 1000 CHF
-Three years ago started asking foundations for funding (made a very professional documentation, dossier), asked arround 20 foundations for 250K CHF in total but didn't get it. We stopped this effort because one of us found a job and couldn't work on this, and the rest were quite demotivated because of the rejections. Foundations have a special focus and Openki is very broad (not only one goal like youth, refugees, education) and it is difficult for foundations to judge on the totality of the project. The fact that is a web platform goes under infrastructure. Business plan (sustainability) was not very well structured (at least not as typically expected) and elaborated. additionnally a standard businessplan is kind of contradictiory to a inovative project. The argument of "self-organization" seems not very convincing. For some the budget was too high, for other too low. To much sociocultural than social. We were affraid to appear as too political, and trying to appear different than we are in order to be liked was a difficult situation psychologically. Foundations did not give good reasons for rejection. And applying for funding is a LOT of work. So we decided to put all our efforts in the development of the project instead of twisting us orround.
+==== How do we make people aware of our project? ====
+There's a list of webpages which link to Openki [FIXME, how many, which ones?]
+Physical locations and projects in which Openki is in use (e.g., Autonomous School)
+Word-of-mouth recommendation and physical presentations.
-Efforts to get funding around concrete projects (Kunsthalle, learning festival with Impact Hub) have been resumed recently ....
+We started making partnerships and collaborations but we haven't started an outreach process for the reasons mentioned in the questions above. We don't think Openki is ready for mass publicity, however we think it's important to spread the word so as to avoid people starting the same project parallelly.
-Later (as soon as we are enough to do it) we will attempt a well-organized crowd funding campaign. This seems a good chance to get users and money at the same time.
+==== What means can we use to promote our ideas and vision? ====
+We achieve our vision by creating the tool. We want to build a community that shares our vision and helps creating and using the tool.
+The ideas on how to reach the goal of building a communitiy are:
+    - home page (vision and concept)
+    - platform design, e.g., promoting openess and participation in a very fundamental way
+    - facilitating, collaborating with, and "featuring"/promoting real projects that represent such values
-There is a also a Faircoin wallet:
+==== How can we assure diversity? ====
-fL6D9U18Kjia7yHCkjsSLGReGSD9TeBvA2 (need to check if it is properly updated to v2)
+There are different ideas how to ensure accessibility for people with different backgrounds by having a userfriendly interface on the website, Further we try to use simple language.
+==== Is there a wikipedia page? ====
+No, but it is a good idea. Feel free to create one :-)  and watch out it's not gonna be a stup or rejected (because aferwards it will become more difficult to create one)
-==== how do we compete with paid- or fulltime-jobs? ====
-we can not. often it is depressing that people leave because they need money or just because they find a payed job with having money. And lot of nice ideas keep undone.
+==== How can we connect/collaborate with active (offline) existing groups? ====
-What makes us still competable is that we can do what we want, that we can work as fast as we want and on what we want, that we are our own bosses and that we have much nicer goals than most companies
+The project was born inside an activist community (Autonomous schools).
+Connection is through networking. We would love to have more capacity for such collaborations
+We organized an unconference for autonomous education last year where we invited different international groups.
+We are participating in different events/conferences.  (Chaos Congress, Border scapes conference in Lesbos, Aarhus, Other activist networks, Personal networks.)
+spread the idea in networks we are in.
+http://about.openki.net/?cat=10
+something about unconference [FIXME]
-==== are there Options/Plans for projects-interaction? ====
-  linking possibilities from/to/with Openki platform?
-like Powerful tagging and searching functionality already implemented.
+===== SUSTAINABILITY/ FUNDING /COLLABORATION  ===
-It could be possible, but for the moment there's not the capacity for facing the challenge.
-In the same time it is a question about capacity of Openki/development
-suggestions: Recommendations, the notion of a "link" between groups, how could projects empower each other (resources sharing/ improving, experiences sharing, interact)
+==== What financial needs do you have? ====
+CHF/month fix for expenses and infrastructure: 800 €/month for the room + 80€ server and domain names + 200 food
+.000 CHF/month would be a budget for self-employment for the current workteam, following Swiss standards.
+.000 CHF/month would be required for general purposes of the project [FIXME] for example...?
-Proposed course for Openki week: https://openki.net/course/YMnYtbu6gbqtgQcXM
+==== How do you get financed? ====
-==== Could Openki be a peer to peer / decentralized administrated or federated platform? ====
+The present budget comes exclusively from donations (solidarity funds and private persons). The only regular income is 100/month from ASZ. See http://about.openki.net/?page_id=1036&lang=en
-  If not, how to do it?
+Related courses on the long-term sustainability of the project:
+https://openki.net/course/BJXJ2GYHTfDWgJWvH/openkibusinessplan
+https://openki.net/course/tTzrXfdZ58qk42vAu/openki-und-geld
+The current balance is 1000 CHF.
+Three years ago, we started asking foundations for funding (made a very professional documentation dossier). We asked arround 20 foundations for 250K CHF in total but didn't get it. We stopped this effort because one of us found a job and couldn't work on this, and the rest were quite demotivated because of the rejections. Foundations have a special focus and Openki is very broad (not only one goal like youth, refugees, education) and it is difficult for foundations to judge on the totality of the project. The fact is that a web platform goes under infrastructure. Business plan (sustainability) was not very well structured (at least not as typically expected) and elaborated. additionnally a standard businessplan is kind of contradictiory to a inovative project. The argument of "self-organization" seems not very convincing. For some the budget was too high, for other too low. Too sociocultural rather than social. We were affraid to appear as too political, and trying to appear different than we are in order to be liked was a difficult situation psychologically. Foundations did not give good reasons for rejection. And applying for funding is a LOT of work. So we decided to put all our efforts in the development of the project instead of twisting us around.
+Efforts to get funding around concrete projects (Kunsthalle, learning festival with Impact Hub) have been resumed recently.
+Later (as soon as we are enough to do it) we will attempt a well-organized crowd funding campaign. This seems a good chance to get users and money at the same time.
+There is a also a Faircoin wallet: fL6D9U18Kjia7yHCkjsSLGReGSD9TeBvA2 (need to check if it is properly updated to v2)
-**Abstract technical aspects:**
-A peer to peer server communication / each group&region can have an own server/computer/device that communicates with the others / since we started was a long term goal, but as is too complex we don't think we'll implement it very soon.
-**social/political aspect:**
+==== Do we have partners /official support? ====
+Dedicated session proposed on the topic: https://openki.net/course/x8zDHqA7GMmRyvdS3/openki-collaboration-partners-network
-A decentralized administration (in a single server) is also a primary goal of the project
+At the "About" page there's a list of partners (mainly "friends" projects). http://about.openki.net/?page_id=554&lang=en
+On-going collaboration with Autonomous Schule Zurich, Kunsthalle, NetHood, and ImpactHub (co-located in the same building)
+The ASZ courses: https://openki.net/group/90aa41f3
+For Kunsthalle: https://openki.net/course/BERAsieNHEghHZW84/openki-x-kunsthalle-zrich
-We are inspired by stack overflow for example in this subject (users are assigned certain administrative tasks, and the more they participate and more reputation they build, the more increase their potential role).
+==== What are criteria for a project to be on Openki?  ====
-"User reputation" is a keyword here. https://github.com/Openki/Openki/issues/164
+We would like to keep the topics diverse but there are 3 important (open) criteria for the actual thresholds of acceptance for projects/concepts:
+- Tolerance - We are clear that we don't accept discriminatory content.
+- Commercial  -  We want our courses to be accessible for everyone, expensive and/or fixed price courses are not welcome (indicative price is allowed [as long as someone has the freedom to choose their participation level] <-?)
+- Professionalism - do we want companies to participate, professional teachers? OK for companies to use Openki internally?
+What is the benefit for (more or less professional) teachers? How do we ensure quality? (difficult answer -> separate session)
+Quality scope and challenge that openness could bring for the users at the point of valuing the quality of the different options when having such diversity. <- ?
-==== How is the administrators' decision making process? ====
+==== Can I open up a new region in XYZ ====
-e.g. banning a course. How open is it for the community to participate?
+You can try! Our experience is that it takes a huge effort to create an active community in a new region. We are working now in Zurich for a good pilot.
+Experience shows that it needs some people with a lot of commitment to coordinate all the volunteers. We started to create new Regions in Athens, Thessaloniki, Wintertur, Berlin and Bern. In all of them we knew motivated people that asked us to create a new region. non of them is active. so in 2018 me might work on a paper that helps to create new regions, and that might as well contain preconditions or advises for new region (diversity of groups, amount of fully committed people, fundraising, ...)
-Everybody can report a problem (highly generic) that people could use to report misbehaviour and inappropriate content. The administrators then have to make a decision. Until today there have not been such cases reported, and thus there is not a decision-making structure defined nor implemented. In the future we are open to ideas of having assemblies or other participatory forms of collective democratic decision-making.
+==== How do we plan to make openki sustainable? ====
-==== Can it be self hosted? ====
+We want to find out during this week. There are three workshops announced on this topic  (money, sustainability, future)
+https://openki.net/group/Ya3BgteukAtN5XkFr
-Yes, but not automatically (like NextCloud for example). Question about capacity. so put to the future
-We don't encourage this by now, but rather host the .net installation
-As one of the main goals of Openki is to interconnect Initiatives, we hesitate a swell if it makes sense before the instances can connect to each others (see previous question).
-==== Is the platform for physical events only or also for e-learning? ====
-Mostly for physical events but it is possible to organize courses and events that take place online.
-==== Is there a plan to find a building where courses can be regularly organized? ====
-No but do it. we would collaborate
-We have the huge office and the Openki-Foyer in order to facilitate workshops, cyrcles and courses. free to be used for you.
-==== How many (non-ASZ) courses have taken place over Openki and what was the experience for mentors/participants/hosts? ====
-Not many. Maybe non. actually we don't know it.
-==== What solutions does Openki offer for e-learning? ====
-Openki does not offer any functionality for e-learning processes (e.g., slide sharing, online assignments, etc), except from the proposal and organization of the events.
-There are such open source e-learning platforms like p2pu..., that could aswell be integrated or linked with Openki.
-We could acctually add a "on-line" region for organizing on-line learning sessions with third party solutions.
-==== How can "lessons" or "processes" be recorded and the outcomes socialized within the platform ====
-   (text, media, streaming service)
-There is no Place for documentation of the courses yet.
-We had the functionality of "course documentation" (Upload of Files) and took it away because it was too much work to maintain it. We'd be up for putting it on-line again in meanwhile we consider using third-party solutions and add a link in the description of the course. we could add dedicated field for the file-links
-=== Will the course material be archived? Is there a function to document what in the course has happened? (for further courses)+ ===
 [FIXME]
+This is part of what we want to find out in this openki-week [FIXME
+During the openki-week many different funding options have been discussed.
+Some fundings more planed to be a "Start-boost" for the project, and some more sustainable and ongoing fundings.
+A decision on which way to proceed has not been taken yet. But we are working on it.
-==== Where's the wiki mentioned in the FAQ? ====
+==== How do we compete with paid- or fulltime-jobs? ====
-It doesn't exist. The FAQ is partly 7 Years old
+We can't pay (yet?). It has been difficult and depressing that good people have left the project because they needed money or left because they found a job that didn't give them enough time to work on Openki on the side. Many good ideas have not been implemented due to that and have been left undone.
+The up side of our project is that we are our own bosses and have the opportunity to work on a project that has in our view much nicer goals that most companies and we can decide how often, how fast and how much we want to work on Openki.
-==== What was the intention/idea behind showing passed courses also on the startpage? To show what has been done? ====
+==== How to make a living out of mentoring courses on Openki?====
+[TODO] Richtpreis-post on about
+FAQ-link?
-The core idea behind:
+Course: https://openki.net/course/Y293GH7oYRyYwgTh2
-The course never really finishes. From our perspective a course is an idea or a topic that one could learn, and participants could spin-off events at any time, and so a "passed" course can become new again.
-The user interface needs to make clearer the distinction between groups, courses and events.
--> todo: CREATE COURSE FOR:  Groups, Courses, Events
+==== Are there Options/Plans for projects-interaction or linking possibilities from/to/with Openki platform?====
+Powerful tagging and searching functionality are already implemented.
+It could be possible, but for the moment we do not have the capacity for project-interractions or linking possibilities with others.
+At the same time it is a question about capacity of Openki/development
+suggestions: Recommendations, the notion of a "link" between groups, how could projects empower each other (resources sharing/ improving, experiences sharing, interact)
+Proposed course for Openki week: https://openki.net/course/YMnYtbu6gbqtgQcXM
-==== Could Openki serve as an open repository of "skills" and/or resources? ====
+==== How would you see the case of code-modifications from third parties? ====
+If other people copy or fork it and create their own variations, we would be very happy.
+However, we have not the capacity to support such initiatives.
-No. (Sure it could, but it is not) We need a very clearly visible usecase for people to understand what Openki is.
-But of course you can search courses for mentors/specialits that you might want to contact and get their skills. But we want the skills to be shared not
-not sure whehter I understand this. Users can add skills to their profile?
-A more dedicated mapping, documenting and history work could be done in order to have records of what was done through the platform.
+=== Do you know what kind of communication tools are used by existing alternative learning groups? How Openki compares to Meetup, Moodle, ...... ? ===
+analouge, telegram, facebookpage...  [FIXME]
-Course for this: https://openki.net/course/A3s967qWm8xFGpfuB
+==== How do you handle courses which are opposed to the law (e.g. hacker, lockpicking, etc.) or ethical controversial? ====
+Main principles are not to discriminate any group of people. At some point we'll be forced to add a AGB disclaimer, code of conduct (maybe containing a statment that users are responsible for theyr content.
+This decisions should be made e.g. by the admin group or the moderator (in the future: of each region) subject to a commonly agreed disclaimer => Check couchsurfing policy or meetup
-==== How do you protect from commercial appropriation? ====
+===== TECHNICAL STUFF =====
-(of the project itself or from commercial alternatives as in the case of couchsurfing and airbnb)?
-The Project itself: We won't sell Openki (unless everybody would decide collaboratively)
+==== How safe is our page? ====
-The Source Code anyway we can not be sold. It is opensourced under AGPL Lincense.
+ Openki.net is by default SSL encoded. It's the same technologies onlinebanking use.
+ When you register for a course, your username is public. Therefore: "Nothing is safe" ;)
-The Idea itself can be adapted by everyone and we can stop commercial companies of appropriating the idea.
+==== What security meassures are taken to protect content and identities? (FAQ) ====
-We have three related courses to discuss further in our Openki-Group:
-    https://openki.net/course/tTzrXfdZ58qk42vAu/openki-und-geld
-    https://openki.net/course/BJXJ2GYHTfDWgJWvH/openkibusinessplan
-    https://openki.net/course/XGRPm6YS8gCQQcLcT/openki-risiken
-==== For how long does the project exist? ====
-.5 years ago (Jan 2010) we started to work on the concept of Openki for arround 9 Month. Before there was allready a extremly rudimental Webpage schuel.dot.ch
-.5 Years ago (Nov 2012) after a break we started to code.
- when did we decide for the name?
-==== Is Openki workgroup a cooperative? ====
-case not, how do you consider this option?
-Openki is officially registered as a Swiss "Verein" which is an Association. We are called KOPF (Course Organisation PlatForm).  By law Vereins are democratically managed and non profit but still allow for a great flexibility. We are tax-excempt by the Kanton of Zurich.
-Todo Juanse: Pros and cons of becoming a coop associated to BotC
-Course: https://openki.net/course/Y293GH7oYRyYwgTh2
-==== What security measures are taken to protect content and identities? ====
-from our FAQ:
-Wie sicher ist Openki? Openki.net ist standardmässig SSL verschlüsselt. Dies ist die gleiche Technologie, wie dein Onlinebanking nutzt. Deine Anmeldungen an Kursen sind zum Beispiel aber für andere Nutzende sichtbar. Wie immer gilt: „Nichts ist sicher“ ;)
 Unlike most web platforms we allow people using the platform without providing any personal information (not even their e-mail if they don't want to receive notifications).
 Personal security demands (e.g. not logging) is not supported at the time.
 We can not provide guarantee that Openki is secure from crackers.
 We log the IPs on the server (by default we think, we didn't ever change something)
 Our host is not forced to log users IPs as far as we know. neither with the new federal surveillance law.
-=== Is there an Mobile-App yet? ===
+==== Can the openki web-app be self hosted? ====
-No there no app in any store, but we'd like to have one. Especally for refugees it would be very useful. People from athens asked us and in ASZ as well it would be great. For now the online app is responsive / mobile friendly.
+Yes, but not automatically (like NextCloud for example). Question about capacity we will think about in the future.
-It's not a very long way to create an Android or OSX app, as Meteor is providing a option to compile it to an App (compared to rewrite it from scratch)
+We don't encourage this by now, but rather host the .net installation.
+As one of the main goals of Openki is to interconnect Initiatives, we hesitate a swell if it makes sense before the instances can connect to each other (see previous question).
-=== how can i help with the translation of the platform? ===
+=== Is there an Mobile-App yet? ===
-Untill today everybody can contribute to the translation to any language:  https://openki.net/translate (you only need an openki User-account)
+No theres no app in any store, but we'd like to have one. For now the webpage is responsive / mobile friendly.
+Especally for refugees a mobile app would be very useful. People from athens asked us and in ASZ as well it would be great.
+It's not a very long way to create an Android or OSX app, as Meteor is providing a option to compile it to an App (compared to rewrite it from scratch).
+==== What is openki licenced under? ====
+[FIXME]
+==== How could you see the case of code modifications from 3rd parties? ====
+[FIXME]
+==== Are there options/ plans for project interactions or linking possibilities? ====
+[FIXME]
+==== Could Openki be a peer to peer Server solution ====
+  * Sure. But it needs the peer to peer server communication
+  * Idea is that each group&region can have an own server/computer/device that communicates with the others
+  * since we started this was a long term goal, but as is too complex to imlement a needed protocoll and definitions we don't think we'll implement it very soon.
-=== how can i translate the descriptions of courses (not only the platform)? ===
+The primary goal is a decentralized administration on a single server
-The description of the courses are thought to be at the same language as the corresponding course. For 1-2 additional languages that might of interest (Multilanguage courses), the owner of the course could add the translations directly on the description field. This is answerd in the FAQ aswell
-==== where do I find running Openki's Projects/Engagements to see where i can contribute? ====
-For programming-tasks it's the https://github.com/Openki/Openki issues and milestones
-For other activities we don't have any public list - yet.
-==== How can I know what is the current status and roadmap of the Openki project? ====
-The same answer as above
-==== What is the economic sustainability plan for the project? ====
-we want to find out during this week. There are three workshops announced on this topic  (money, sustainability, future)
-https://openki.net/group/Ya3BgteukAtN5XkFr
-==== How to make a living out of mentoring courses on Openki ====
-[TODO] Richtpreis-post on about
-FAQ-link?
-==== Are you a movement? A community? A piece of technology? An organisation?  ====
+===== CURRENT STATE =====
-Everything! Driven by our goals/vision: We achieve our vision by creating the tool. The tool needs a community. To build a community we need the movement.
+==== Who are we right now? ====
+We are a group of people. Somewhere between 3 and 15 are active.
+people are fulltime, 1 person one day a week, 1 person irregularly between one and 3 evenings, 1 person on and off, when in zurich some halfdays a week, when abroad sometimes. One just stopped because he found a job.
+Some more are helping out with some tasks once or twice a month, some participate once or twice a jear.
+There's not yet a communication workgroup active, people in the core group are shy/modest/humble :-)
+ we're doing it all voluntarily
-We are a vision. to achieve this one we create a tool. the tool itself wont do we need to spread the vision (a moovement) and we need a social framing (the community).
+===Core Memebers===
+== Urban ==
+since the beginning, stopped coding 1 Jear ago,
+Passed projects:
-Values->  Goal -> Tool  ->  Organization  -> Community  -> Movement  -> Idea  -> Goal
+Curent Projects:/Interests
+  * Professionalization. At the moment really little perspective to continue the project without a serious step of professionalization
+  *
+== Luca ==
-==== The platform itself does not give much indication of the theories and philosophies of alternatives to the insititutionalised school system. Is your goal to simply create a platform to be used in any way possible, or also to promote ideas about deschooling and convivial knowledge exchange? In which case a more informative/inspirational shell needs to be created around the platform itself. ====
-On the platform itself we only give a framing derived from that background
+== Stephan ==
-We have ambitions to create this context arround the platform, necessary to enable everybody to contribute. not only to
+  * Coder, Denk:mal activist/moderator, Openki since sommer 2013
-part of the answer as well is that from observing other participatory projects: the academic discourse is blocking lot of people to use it.
+== Panos ==
-Three ways to promote such ideas:
+== Mirj ==
-    - home page (vision and concept)
-    - platform design, e.g., promoting openess and participation in a very fundamental way
-    - facilitating, collaborating with, and "featuring"/promoting real projects that represent such values
-katalin: see wikimedia foundation for inspiration about bringing specific groups on to the site
-==== How do I know that a course is of good quality or even worse if I will not be in danger going to an event? ====
-For this our answer untill now has been to implement a feedback/reputation system. Do you have already ideas how the feedback/reputation system could look like (risks: rate courses/persons with numbers, social desirability, social norms)
-Trusted venues, public spaces should be preferred and avoiding private places of strangers is recommended.
-==== How do you handle courses which are opposed to the law (e.g. hacker, lockpicking, etc.) or ethical controversial? ====
-Every region has (will have) a moderator (or a local admin group?) that should make such decisions (democratically?) subject to a commonly agreed disclaimer?
-=> Check couchserfing policy or meetup
-==== could you imagine a version / space for children (maybe moderated) ? ====
-==== What happens at the Kunsthalle? ====
+==== How can I know what the current state is? ====
+Right now there is no public road map for Openki itself, yet. (For programmers see open issues on https://github.com/Openki/Openki )
+====What are current projects? ====
+One of the current projects we work on is in the Kunsthalle in Zürich.
 Years of Reformation Exibition, Artist RobPrutt will build a church. Open mid Dec. until mid Mai
 Core question: What happens in a church when there is no religion and no priest?
 The artist transforms the space (huge) to a "church" and chooses as the main activity a bottom-up knowledge exchange
-Room is open for workshops organized by everyone. Openki aswell can make workshops (about the platform, concept, methodology, learning)
+Room is open for workshops organized by everyone. Openki can organize workshops (about the platform, concept, methodology, learning)
 Walkin thing (two actors, observers and participants)
 Entrance in not sure if it's free (Museumscard would loose it's value) Entrance for the workshops will be free
 Friendly collaboration
   * Tried to get more money for us
-  * No pression
+  * No pressure
 Pay arround 2000 for our work on
 They make advertisment for openki (Flyer, Stikers...)
 Collection goes to ASZ
 Technical aspects:
   * arty-event: so not everything has to look perfect
 Ideas:
-===Is it possible to have Openki course withou a mentor?===
-Yes, it's the some kind of learning group.
--> Pleas read the FAQ first...
-==== Who are you ====
-Core -
-== Urban ==
-since the beginning, stopped coding 1 Jear ago,
-Passed projects:
-Curent Projects:
+  * activist projects, reading groups, offspaces, makerlabs, hackerspaces, youthcenters, academic groups, squats, migrantprojects,
-  * Professionalization. At the moment really little perspective to continue the project without a serious step of professionalization)
+  * dedicated installations of the software for
-  *
+    * collectives/companies
+    * alternative schools
-== Luca ==
+    * barcamps, unconferences, ....
+[FIXME]
-== Panos ==
-== Mirj ==
--> proposal by Karlo to write FAQs from a personal perspective.
-E.g., "I am a professional teacher and want to offer promotional courses at Openki ... ". Or "I am a venue owner and want to use Openki to organize activities in my venue ..."
+==== Where do I find Openki's running projects /engagements to see how i can contribute/participate?====
+For general engagement activities we don't have any public list.
+For translation-tasks go to https://openki.net/translate, for programming-tasks join: https://github.com/Openki/Openki.
+For code contribution go to our https://github.com/Openki/Openki page and see the open issues thy are labeled (Tech, Small, UI, ...)
+Untill today everybody can contribute to the translation to any language:  https://openki.net/translate (you only need an openki User-account)
+The tools we are using inside the project are documented internally: its mostly Gitlab, Trello, Github, Etherpads, Wiki...
+Please ask us for access and introduction, we are happy to show you.
+==== How can i translate the descriptions of courses (not only the platform)? ====
+The description of the courses are thought to be at the same language as the corresponding course. For 1-2 additional languages that might of interest (Multilanguage courses), the owner of the course could add the translations directly on the description field. This is answerd in the FAQ aswell.
+==== Is there a current plan to find a building where courses can be regularly organized? ====
+No but do it. We would collaborate. We have the huge office and the Openki-Foyer in order to facilitate workshops, cyrcles and courses. free to be used for you.
+==== What was the experience for mentors/participants/hosts? ====
+[FIXME]
+You can ask Adreas from RevampIT, Panos Nethood...

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