Isham’s notes on the ideas from groups A – E

Group A.

  • What do they mean by projects?  ANSWER – kenny’s project, for example.
  • QUESTION: does the symposium model work?  conference?
    • Quality of people
    • Diversity
    • Chances to interact
  • LIKE – focus on failures as well as successes
  • if not grant, speaker …?
  • DONT LIKE: integrate se into curriculum – sustainability model
  • FEEDBACK: Davis Projects tomorrow
  • DONT LIKE: creating a file, forming a catalog  BETTER?  Videos, story telling ..?
  • QUESTION: would folks have had to study se to apply?  Before … after?
  • DATA … this is so key …
  • As network … space for problem solving …
  • Under Center for Creativity and Innovation
  • DONT LIKE:  Expert model, speaker model …. (to some degree) … experts in what ..?
  • REC – $350,000 to students …
  • LIKE:  Rhiya’s version of networked, contingent, on occasion expertise …
  • LIKE: Starting small …. see what works …
  • QUESTION: encourage world-changing speakers or not?
  • DONT LIKE (?): ‘projects’ …. BETTER?  Invest in everyone who comes through door?
  • LIKE:  It’s about ‘popularizing ideas’
  • Mission?
  • LOOKING FOR: open, not closed ……

Group B

  • LIKE  Mission (go back to it …)
  • LIKE  undergrad mission
  • DONT LIKE: grants ….
  • DONT LIKE (?): minima, maxima ….
  • FEEDBACK: talk to Jesse …..
  • PREFER laboratory model
  • DONT LIKE: minor, ES focus …..
  • LIKE:  Addition of an SE course (What should be the pre-req) — feedback ..
  • DOUBLE LIKE: “School for Social Entrepreneurship”
  • DONT LIKE: so many Midd students judging …
  • QUESTION:  people, not projects

Group C

  • LIKE: their arrow thing
  • LIKE:  inventory of things we have …..
  • DOUBLE LIKE: we provide the space …..
  • DONT LIKE: ‘consolidate …’.
  • NOT SURE: annual campus theme … among categories …?
  • LIKE: that its about building connections …
  • LIKE:  incubator (3 parts)
  • LIKE: Stonehenge as solutionsU – we need to get Jessica Holmes in here …
  • LIKE: Middlabs documentation …
  • COMMENT: must distinguish our competition .
  • LIKE:  folks, say, from North Africa ……
  • QUESTION: Do we need a physical center …?

Group D

  • LIKE  Flow of ideas …
  • PRINCIPLE  How would we measure it?
  • PRINCIPLE  What challenges need to be solved?  Is it likely that we can help solve …
  • QUERY ES steering committee model?
  • LIKE: networking with other nodes on campus …
  • LIKE: outside of midd and midd
  • DONT LIKE (AT ALL): general topic areas
  • NOT SURE: poster sessions
  • LIKE: implementation/documentation
  • LIKE: What happens after the grant?  Plus, during!
  • LIKE: Hilary’s comment …
  • QUESTION: do all of this without a ‘center’?

GROUP E

  • LIKE: ‘anchor it around a place.’  Now I get it …..
  • LIKE: demand-driven ….
  • DOUBLE LIKE: emphasis on data … TOTALLY HUGE …..
    • Remember collaborative democracy ….
    • Constant use of data ….
    • Data and evaluation …..

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