Organizing and exposing our practice
Although many members of CPsquare are themselves leaders of communities and consultants in the development or support of communities, learning in a community about communities of practice can be another a challenge. At the beginning you have to just do it, which is what we’ve done with the research and dissertation fests.
They began as a way to go beyond the learning we do inside CPsquare. Sometimes a member finished a big piece of work and presented it to the whole community or consulted with the community at some critical juncture. Gradually we formalized the process and it has served us well for sharing work that’s been done by CPsquare members and others.
At this point it’s something we do regularly. We developed a set of notes on how to do it internally and now it’s shared on the CPsquare wiki as a page on our Research and Dissertation Fests.
