class: center, middle, title # The Wisdom of Community ## --- layout: true .logo[  ] --- class: middle # Jonah M Duckles <hr> ## <i class="fab fa-twitter"></i> [@jduckles](https://twitter.com/jduckles) ## <i class="fas fa-envelope"></i> jduckles@carpentries.org <br> # August 27, 2018 # SPNHC-TDWG 2018, Dunedin, New Zealand --- class: middle, center ## Welcome to New Zealand! <hr>  .citation[ Sandymount, Dunedin, NZ - Jonah Duckles] --- class: middle, center # SPNCH-TDWG Abstracts <hr>  ??? You all like data and biodiversity No vowels 9 of 21 consonants 43% of all the consonants in english! --- # Community <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[  ] --- class: middle, center, big # Minecraft and Community <hr>  .citation[ [Minecraft.net](https://minecraft.net/static/pages/img/index-hero-og.088fb7996b03.jpg) ] ??? Minecraft demonstrates a new creation and collaboration wonderland. * Minecraft world.... * Playful * Opportunity * Possibilities * Creativity * Threats It is a world where almost anything you can imagine is possible. Like legos, but even more complicated Red stone, circuitry ** Collaboration ** --- class: center, middle # Playing Minecraft <hr>  ??? When my sons were playing Minecraft a few years ago... shared tasks, creative mode and survival mode. They usually liked to play in creative mode, but survival mode created some of its own challenges. * Cooperation * Constant chatter * Conflict * Creativity Constant talking, constant creation. --- class: middle, center # Spiders <hr>  ??? * Spiders are scary to a 6yo * Vulnerability * Opportunity * Collaboration * He felt safe being vulnerable with his brother. * Killing a spider yields string. String is useful. * Time to ask your older brother for help. --- class: middle, center # Making a bow <hr>  ??? * Crafting - recipes * String is useful as an ingredient for making a bow. * **empowerment** first takes some amount of expressed vulnerability * Older brother, can get back to whatever he was doing. He's empowered his little brother. --- class: middle, center  ??? * To solve complex problems we are stronger working together * Seeing a future state better than the way things are today * Challenges, opportunities, a better future. * The tools we choose and artifacts we create are important. * They must impact us in the moment, time * And have a lasting and persistence in place, space * Walk to the edge of the abysses you don't know how get too or through, and help others with the same. --- class: middle .center[  ] <hr> .one-half[ * 1,700 instructors - from 39 countries * 1,700 2-day skills workshops * over 40,000 learners ] .one-half[  ] ??? --- ## Preparing the unconscious mind <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Two day constraint * N.R.F. Maier's two cords experiment * Problem solving skills can be inaccessible to the conscious mind * You can't teach all the things ] --- class: center, middle # Community <hr>  ??? A community formed to bring digital skills where they're needed. A community that bridges disciplines, cultures and research challenges under one unifying umbrella. We're able to be where we are because we value social intelligence, empathy and impact. --- class: center, middle # Social Intelligence --- # Which emotion do you see? <hr> .center[  ] .citation[ [Lab In The Wild](https://socialintelligence.labinthewild.org/) ] ??? --- class: center, middle # Panicked --- .middle.center[  ] .citation[ [Lab In The Wild](https://socialintelligence.labinthewild.org/) ] --- class: center, middle # Insisting --- # "Seeing The Mind in The Eyes" <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * This 36-question test is used as a measure of one's social intelligence * teams who's members score highly on this test also score better on a series of group puzzles and challenges. Take the test: https://socialintelligence.labinthewild.org/ ] --- class: middle .one-half[  ] .one-half[ # The Smartest Teams <hr> ## Have 1. High metrics of social intelligence across their members 2. Equal speaking time among group members 3. Higher proportions of women ] .citation[ [*Williams et al.*](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6004/686) and [Superminds](https://cci.mit.edu/superminds/) ] ??? Effective teams are demonstrably smarter and more capable than individuals. How well you can read emotion on faces, according to this study, is the single biggest predictor of how you'll contribute to a team. "Just putting a smart group of people together does not guarantee you'll have a smart group" Three factors: Social perceptiveness - Reading the mind in the eyes Equal participation in conversation Proportion of women - (see #1) Superminds - Striking evidence based benefits working in community, --- class: middle, center # How can you make your teams and projects more socially intelligent? --- class: middle, center # What are the benefits of community to the individual? --- .one-half[ .middle[ ] ] .one-half[ # Passive participation * Shared purpose * Context for your own strengths and weaknesses * New ideas * Increased empathy for others * Discourse ] ??? * What invites people in? * What helps them feel safe? * What keeps people away? --- .one-half[ .middle[  ] ] .one-half[ # Active contribution * Recognition for your own abilities and limitations * Others who may have strengths which compliment your weaknesses * Mentorship and support * Conflict and challenges * Your own learning and growth ] ??? * What are the barriers to full participation? * How does your community invite people to contribute? * How do you prepare community members for productive conflicts and challenges that improve the community? --- class: center, middle # The Stages of Community --- # Formation <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Identify a Shared purpose * Enumerate capabilities * Detail limitations * Build in opportunities for socially intelligence * Expect and embrace healthy conflict ## What can we accomplish together? ] .citation[ [Dal East - Hasst Eagle](http://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/artworks/) ] --- # Call to Adventure <hr> .one-half[] .one-half[ * To the moon & back * Lets build a... * We could... ## What is our shared purpose? ] .citation[ [Mural by Aroha Novak and Guy Howard-Smith](https://cargocollective.com/arohanovak/COMMUNITY) ] ??? * Daring * Imagination * Optimism * How can the future be better than today? * Digital skills where they're needed --- # Uncertainty and doubt <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Others are already doing... * Not today... * Spiders scare me * Are we really needed? ## I'm not sure anymore... ] .citation[[Phlegm](http://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/artworks/)] ??? * Overcoming this requires some amount of activation energy * Calm in the face of uncertainty * Through a healthy amount of uncertainty and doubt you can refine and hone your call to adventure. --- # Building the initial team <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Pitch to others * Getting others on board * Enumerating your collective strengths * Communicating the shared nature of your adventure ## Come join us! ] .citation[ [Phlegm](http://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/artworks/) ] ??? * Marketing your idea to others. * Thinking about what you might ask of them in terms of contribution --- # The Abyss <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Why did I even do this!? * How are we going to get out of this mess? * There's a spider behind that door, I know it! * Emotions: Fear of the unknown, despair, opportunity ## Is this even worth it? ] .citation[ [Devon Smith](http://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/artworks/) ] ??? * In the abyss is where a team is strongest. * A call to adventure could be the crossing of a known abyss * Summit Mount Everest * Doesn't make it any easier to do * Grand challenges, known pain points. * The abyss is another name for opportunity. --- # Departing the abyss <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Walk around, name things, observe the abyss * Demystify what you see together * Develop a plan as a team * Forge new strength * When you encounter this same abyss next time you'll be ready ## Can't go back...must work together. ] .citation[ [Phlegm and Pixel Pancho](http://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/artworks/)] --- # Return transformed with new wisdom <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Confidence * Familiarity * Shared accomplishment * Inviting others to go through the abyss with you * Lets do that again, but better this time! ## We know how to... ] .citation[ [Mica Still](http://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/artworks/)] ??? Carpentries teaching Making a workshop happen --- class: middle, center # Repeat --- class: middle, center # What are some tools to sustain shared purpose? --- # Codes of Conduct <hr> .one-half[ > It is important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is neither healthy nor productive. *SPNHC-TDWG 2018 CoC* ] .one-half[ * Enables us to invite participation from all perspectives? * Expects our organization to build some level of social intelligence * Invites people to feel safe in your midst ] --- # Community Communications Tools <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ ## Balance of * Time-based tools (media) * Space-based tools (media) ] --- # Time-based media <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Twitter * Phone calls * Video chat * Newsletters * Slack * 1-1 conversations ## Ephemeral ] --- # Space-based media <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Titles/roles (instructor, volunteer, mentor) * In-person Conference events * Campus, office, location * Awards (plaques, statues, etc) * Physical office * Books, lessons, journals * Swag - stickers, t-shirts ## Lasting presence ] --- class: center, middle  ??? Weave together time based and space based media to build a strong community. Not necessarily one or the other. --- # Artifacts of The Carpentries <hr> .one-half[ # Time Based * Workshops * Community Calls * Mentoring * Twitter * Slack * Verbal conversations * Etherpads ] .one-half[ # Space Based * Lessons * Organizational Memberships * CarpentryCon * Instructors * Badges * Awards * Long-term surveys ] ??? Weaving together time based and space based media can enable our communities to be resilient to changing and uncertain times. Many of us come from space-based institutions. Museums, Libraries, Universities, Collections. We have a hard time imagining the work we do being important despite the walls and collections of our institutions. --- # Thresholds <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Define roles in your community * Invite people to cross thresholds which allow them to assume those roles * Support them as they do * Grow and connect these roles to the overall mission ] .citation[[pixbay](https://pixabay.com/en/suzhou-carved-building-door-723398/)] ??? Carpentries has: Instructors Helper Mentor Trainer Maintainer Lesson Developer Lesson Infrastructure Community Champion Assessment Network Code of Conduct Committee Workshop Administrators --- # Build Scaffolding <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Scaffolding allows your community and its roles to climb together * Invite others to begin the climb with your community * Scaffolding allows you to do more with less effort ] .citation[ [Pxhere](https://pxhere.com/en/photo/493273)] --- class: center, middle # Lessons from NZ's Indigenous Maori Community --- # Maori Education and Carving <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ * Carvers learn all skills, but rapidly specialize * Value to iwi in having collective consciousness among learners * Learning in isolation of very little value to iwi * Whare Pōrukuruku - one-to-one teaching with limited value over learning together ] .citation[ [Ōtākou Runaka](http://www.otakourunaka.co.nz/) ] ??? Building teaching into the collective consciousness of the iwi or tribe. --- class: middle, center # This week <hr>  .citation[ [Wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_Edge.jpg) ] ??? * Go to the edge, peer over, then grab someone else and look over with them. * Invite people to look over the edge into your pit as well :). * What will you create together? --- class: center, middle # What spiders can you kill together?  --- class: middle # Dunedin Street Art <hr> .one-half[  ] .one-half[ http://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/ [Map](http://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/dunedin-street-art-map.pdf) ] --- class: middle, center # Thank you! ## @jduckles ## Presentation available at: https://jduck.net/presentations ## jduckles@carpentries.org