Topic Three: supporting community

• Multidimensional community space
  • from text to multimodal
  • Physical to digital
  • Private to public
  • Uncooked to fully cooked – from exemplars to seeds
  • Individual creativity to collective creativity
• Tools, artifacts, information, discussion, practices, tutorials, projects, meetings, newsletter
  • Tracking tools

• Extending the community beyond academia
  • International, industry, wide community
  • Attracts new students, academics, and industry participants
• Extending the description of creativity beyond what academic community can come up with
  • Enhancing unbounded social creativity
• Aggregation and tracking
  • Aggregate collective knowledge Space that can track how creativity comes about – emerges
• Extend physical community
  • Traveling projects
  • meetings
• Well connected with links to and from the wiki to and from other web sites and communities
• Validation space: Work and research on the wiki could be used to persuade faculty heads/chairs of departments about the value and prestige of these research directions
• Good common reference space: Useful resource for exemplary work, data sets, research tools, and for explaining and sharing ideas about best practices
• Good archiving space: extend output tie of work
• Discussion and collaboration space: Secure, comfortable and inviting space to share half-baked ideas that will grow to fully baked ideas
• Communications on the wiki would lead to successful, future ‘traditional’ collaborations such as a high-quality journal, annual conference or symposium
• Industry connections: who is doing what, what are the industry issues, industry posed projects
• A communal dynamic, reference space

• Community time, attention and motivation
• Resources for students/staff for editing and application development
  • Don’t limit funding avenues to NSF; look also to industry, private foundations, etc
• Successful output filters: A model that does that filtering at the output
  • How to create successful output filters – not only for getting artifacts but producing physical outputs and connections

1. to create high energy, very interesting, interactive debates: how can we create a place where people will do this? What is the overhead in getting a debate started and maintaining it?
2. How can it be inviting and also be challenging?
3. A model that does that filtering at the output
   • How to create successful output filters – not only
4. Easily leaving crumbs without getting totally engaged or committed, progressive engagement
5. Crossing physical and digital space