We started the event series in 2009: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events
As of today, there are 113 events in the main series, as well as more special events such as meetings of working groups or P2PU classes and seminars. Here are next steps I would like the series to accomplish in the next quarter or so. Please suggest computer platforms and human actions that will help. Please add, subtract (or multiply) the list.
  • Pre-event discussions can help interested people find one another and form preliminary topics and questions to be discussed live during the event. This means…
  • …advance schedule: announcing events at least 2-3 weeks ahead of time. Together with the list of following events coming up, and possibly past events on related topics.
  • Open multi-community discussion points. That is, event announcements are prompts to discuss the event topic, right there. I suggest this group plus the LinkedIn group “Math, Math Education, Math Culture” plus Twitter hashtag #mathchat plus any groups associated with the event (for example, the blog of the host, or their community forum). We can also frame this as a one-week seminar at P2PU’s School of Math Future.
  • Curation and aggregation. We will aggregate contents from all these platforms before the event starts, and summarize threads – in a place with a “reply” button for post-event discussion. We will also have a taxonomy of events by topics and other qualities, such as math game design, computer-based math, family math and so on (the same event can have all these tags and more).
  • Announcements by topic. We need an email-based list, separate from discussion groups, that allows people to monitor upcoming events by specific topics, based on event taxonomy, and without any other email traffic whatsoever.
  • Research paper. We ask every event host, “How can people collaborate with you and help you?” The answers are excellent data for a study. Seeking co-authors.
  • Conference. This January, we can have a Math Future strand at the Learning 2.0 conference, with the goal of organizing a blended (face-to-face plus online) conference soon, as well.