Skills - learning from one another

This is one of the pages on this wiki which came out of the Wortley Hall 2017 Co-operative Technologists Second Annual Gathering at Wortley Hall, 27-29 November 2017.

The group consisted of: Alan Jackson (Aptivate), Tom Daley (Aptivate), Simon Whitehouse (Data Unlocked), Chris Booth (Graphics Coop), Maria (Agile Collective), Fabian Tompsett (Digital Liberties)

Discussion

The group discussed how Learning From One Another fell within both Principle 5: Education, Training, and Information and Principle 6: Cooperation Among Cooperatives.

The first question was

How could skill sharing happen?

Shared documents
Create a knowledge base
Co-working
Solid Fund might fund learning activities
Regular physical meet-ups
Pairing and remote pairing
Meet-up about a subject
Sit in each others' offices
Monthly digital drop-in
Providing training to each other
Knowledge sharing ... Q&A forum

This was followed by

What do people want to learn?

Tech skills
Agile contracting
Project management
Project team shape
Charging - how do you do it?
Pay structures, appraisals
Machine learning

There were a few Post-It notes filled in that didn't fall within either category. They are listed below.

Other

Duty of care
Why would someone build my tech skills?
Where is everyone? (map)

Finally, we suggested activities that we might undertake to get things going.

Actions

Write this session up on the wiki (done!)
Hold first skill sharing event planning meeting (done!)
Set date for first co-ordination meeting
Set date for first meet-up
Set up team - create mailing list

Outcomes

Skill Sharing Noticeboard

See the Skill Sharing Noticeboard

The group discussed how coops could share the skills they have with other coops in the network. Based on this a Skill Sharing Noticeboard was created at Wortley Hall 2017. It had two aims in mind:

To gauge the interest in skills sharing amongst the people attending the event
To see if any themes emerged

Altogether 7 people offered to share skills and 5 people would like to learn skills.

Skill Sharing Event

The First Skill Sharing Event has been decided. The details are:

Date	Thursday, 18th January
Time	3pm to 6pm
Location	Space4.Tech
Subject	Project Management

The agenda to be published closer to the time.