[TOS] FIE: Crazy Idea :-)

[Mel Chua]

> Do we want to make the offer that TOS will offer a replacement
> workshop for them?  If we have enough folks there on Wednesday who
> are willing, and they have folks looking for workshops it might be an
> interesting experiment.  Normally they charge extra for them but we
> could offer to do one at no charge as a favor to them and to test the
> waters for future workshops.

I believe it was Greg Hislop who once pointed out to me that many 
faculty include "we'll build online communities!" in their grant 
proposals, but precious few such projects actually end up succeeding on 
that bit. So perhaps:

* how successful distributed communities of practice operate
* how to join them (so you don't need to build them from scratch)
* how to build them (or rather, "how to connect your project with them 
and grow them")
* how to write these things in grant-proposal-friendly terms

I can take a lot of the first three, and have no clue on the fourth, but 
know many others here do.

--Mel