[FM Discuss] SPRINT ON COLLABORATION - LIMA PERU

[adam hyde]

hey Sandra,

Very nice update and very nice photos...(my apologies I should have
written to you to ask for smaller versions).

It looks like a great team you had there. Can you tell me a little more
about where you will publish it? I'd like to see it when its ready :)

adam



On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 19:02 -0500, sandra salcedo wrote:
> Adam, finally we had our first "book sprint" on "collaboration". As we
> know this is just an "inspirational" coincidence that we both, from
> Peru and Germany, were thinking on writing about the same topic. As
> you know our reality is different so we would like to share with you
> our experience specially given that we did it almost at the same time
> but we took different roads.
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> To start, i would say that we never thought on writing this as a book
> with chapters or transversal topics. Instead, given our "innocence" in
> this thing of writing together we decided to use this as a
> documentation platform where to write our own experiences about
> collaboration in our particular contexts. In this sense, we call
> people working on very diverse areas: artists working with people
> after the earthquake, people working in radical poor zones on
> collaborative education, migration, free software, neighborhood,
> collaboration and development and so on. 
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> I cannot but share with you that my feelings along the sprint were
> similar than yours, how are we going to do this!!! but people were so
> confident on doing it and the way we were facilitating the sessions
> that i just perseverated. I mean, they did not even understood well
> when i wrote the email and asked them to come for the SPRINT ,
> (sprint??? what is sprint? they confess know they thought considering
> also that we speak in spanish it needed a long explanation..!!)
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> Well, so many things,  that the title was COLLABORATION AND WORK
> seemed to have had something to do with the fact that everybody
> accepted to join our effort. We were from Friday 22 to Monday 25 but
> we did not spend the night at the same place together, everybody went
> home. Eventhough the risk, we all arrived at 9am to start writing
> every morning. Something unusual being sharp on time here in peru!!!
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> Many topics were transversal in all texts but i want to highlight one:
> CONFIDENCE FOR COLLABORATION.
> It was clear for everyone that the lack of confidence, something not
> only common but considered necessary in a post armed conflict country
> and high corruption level. However, the amazing thing was that it was
> clear that because of confidence all the projects they lead are
> running and of course because of confidence there were in this place
> to share for 4 days were they really did not know anybody, not even
> me. 
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> Kiko (mayorga) was facilitating all the technical issues and
> explaining the best ways for networking. Me, I was just focus on
> keeping things flowing, within and outside the texts. We also had two
> friends (psycologists just becuase a coincidence!!!) helping everyone
> with their own reflections regarding their experiences and leading
> them from their experiences to some common issues that we agreed
> should be along all the texts: project explanation, collaboration
> dimension in their projects, actors, best collaborative practices etc)
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> Finally, I just want to share with you our happiness, the result will
> be printed soon and probably online (if not written in video format
> while being read by their own authors). It was amazing that finishing
> the sprint we found your email sharing your own collaborative futures
> experience. Congratulations, great effort!!
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> Some pictures for you too.
> abrazos
> sandra 
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