At the end we brainstormed about our results and future work.
What did we get out of this meeting?
- leaning, new perspectives on our ideas
- an “agreement” on research topics
- emerging understanding, but not common language yet
- who knows what
- who thinks what
- how to deal with each other
- spontaneous
- good “chemical” mix for the future ”reactions”
- open atmosphere, trust, “dog eats dogs, but dog is not here”
- great potential
- presentations, notes, reading list (we are planning to post them on-line)
- remain open to others (one or more time in a year)
What was missing?
- booze or “mixing informal activities” like it
- time (we can save traveling time by being smarter with logistics)
- “structure”, “force” to achieve more
- time for distractions that need priority
- evolutionary approach
- intermediate evaluation (e.g. reflection after each session)
Emerging activities
- reading groups + free discussion
- get our own domain
- in January and in the next future:
- joined bibliography ?
- list of conferences ?
- collection of case studies –> can be within readings
- write articles together
- future face-to-face Q-Dialog meetings
- next meeting proposal: Italy or UK in May/June
- before or during KMSS03
- individual blogs
- Quaerere group blog
- work on our ideas within Knowledge Angels initiative
Comments
Funny: we were scared of not having enough people, but even with this group we could hardly fit our schedule. Now we are scared of large numbers: we don’t know if this working style will scale.
We had an interesting discussion about group evolution. All of us agree, that process could be more important than content, so we don’t want to make regular “conference” from Quaerere Dialog. But this time we spend a lot of time presenting and discussing our research. So, we assumes that this is “introductory stage” is necessary to get to know each other better and to build trust. Something like that:
- First: content and context – who, what, where, related to whom
- Next: process – next step, how, when
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