Nice to be in contact Peter, Julie, Sylvie, Ethan, Gustavo
Thank you for having been responsive and among the first to confirm your intention to extend your PSF workshop online and enable/build "distance participation"in it with the help of one or two volunteers( whom you will find in priority among your group/network/organisation)
Now you are on this working list "extending psf-fsp-activities-list " at lists.openfsm.net . It gathers those among the 400 FSP workshop facilitators who have the same intention, and we will send information and reminders on this list http://openfsm.net/projects/canada-etand-fsmwsf/lists/psf-extending-activities-fsp/membership
You share this intention of extension of a worksho peven if the content of your workshops might be quite different
You get into the practice of extending social forums and we hope that it will be a positive one
We list your workshop as open to remote participation in s display page of PSF extended workshops here http://openfsm.net/projects/canada-etand-fsmwsf/psfextension-list-extended-psf-fsp-activities It comes with indication of your email and we recomend to give an indication of public skype contact . People will appreciate to be able to contact you visa skype in advance and feel there is someone on the line ! ( and via email and telephone as those can be found in a link in the same display page)
It is you or one of your volunteers who organize the extension of your worskshop, circulate invitation, create conversation room etc .....Email us if you have a specific concern and we try to guide you through inasmuch possible
We advise to CREATE and regularly update your form " extending my psf workshop" ere https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qS4GG7naeX9mGkcYyuh8A9PrUs6ET5sSmav9Ys6B06M/viewform
( you copy past and keep the update link after submitting the first
response (if you have not found and kept that link, send a second form
...)
This form will be a check list for you and keeps us abreast of the progress of your preparation (see questions 7 to 18 of the "enlarging my workshop" form that will guide you) . Skills to make live video and written chat are widespread among the forum participants, and that it is possible to find these skills ( see form items 9 to 13).
What matters in order to succeeed in extended participation is early communication with your future extended participants (see "extending my workshop form items 14 a & 17 in the form) or/and http://openfsm.net/projects/tecnointercomfsm/skype-conversation-room-for-feedbacks-en
We advise you to use skype for this as it is widely known ( but there can be other ways, for instance some of you are considering a google hangout meeting for example which will be activated just on the workshop time slot,though) :
We are trying to "facilitate" this practice of extended participation
Again, thank you for extending your workhop Let us know on this list , or directly your thoughts and concerns as your preparation progresses. It may be a learning experience for some of you
Also we are looking forward to meet you in person during the PSF, we will probably be around of WSF café space in PSF-Ottawa! nearby the media center in Ottawa university the invitation to wsf cafe is here http://openfsm.net/projects/wsf-cafe-fsm/wsfcafefsm-ottawa ( you can fill the particpation form
WSF cafe is a casual meeting place (on line through skype mostly) between participants in PSF in ottawa and world social forum process participants from around the world , who are interested to meet and make contact
Sylvie and Pierre