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1 **__The Open Source Initiative's Management Education Working Group (2014-2015)__**
2
3 = Charter of the OSI-EDU-WG (2014-2015) =
4
5 //**Version 0.3:**__ Pending OSI Board Approval__//
6 //**Contact:** Joseph Potvin, Working Group Chair <jpotvin@opman.ca>//
7
8 == Call for Participation ==
9
10 >//**Let's work together** to strengthen the quality of management amongst free/libre/open projects and portfolios, and amongst their governing organizations. We invite __your__ collaboration towards improving [[The FLOW Syllabus>>doc:Working-Groups-Incubator-Projects.flow-syllabus.WebHome||title="The FLOW Syllabus"]]. The OSI-EDU-WG meets online at http://osi.bigbluebutton.org/osi/ every Tuesday at 21:00 GMT (which is Wednesday 6am Brisbane, Australia; and Tuesday 4 pm in NYC).// Contact the Chair, Joseph Potvin for details: <jpotvin@opman.ca>.
11 > — The __Educators Committee__ meets on the first Tuesday of each month
12 > — The __Lawyers Committee__ meets on the second Tuesday of each month
13 > — The __Technologists Committee__ meets on the third Tuesday of each month
14 > — The __Project & Organizational Managers Committee__ meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month
15 >
16
17 __**CONTENTS**__
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19 {{toc numbered="false"/}}
20
21 == Purpose ==
22
23 The OSI has long played a role in community-building and education about how free/libre/open source licenses, and various related domains and business models, can provide a foundation for both socio-economic and business advantages.
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25 The //strategic purpose// of the OSI Management Education Working Group (OSI-EDU-WG) is to help managers of projects, portfolios, organizations and consortia to thoroughly understand and engage the free/libre/open way, encompassing ethics, methods, processes, governance, HR management, strategy, security, law and financing.
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27 The //operational purpose //of the OSI-EDU-WG is to coordinate the maintenance, extension and resourcing of a collectively curated guide to the concepts and methods underlying free/libre/open work, named [[The Free/Libre/Open Works (FLOW) Syllabus>>doc:Working-Groups-Incubator-Projects.flow-syllabus.WebHome||title="The Free/Libre/Open Works (FLOW) Syllabus"]].
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29 The FLOW Syllabus is tailored to assist "educators" in their design of learning programs. The educators we have in mind are academic and business instructors, advisers (including legal counsel), as well as project and operations managers who need to effectively relate and discuss these topics with team members, executives, business partners, customers or constituents, and who therefore also function as educators.
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31 The FLOW Syllabus is intended to be useful towards the development of on-site seminars or workshops, and online tutorials or webinars, in both formal or informal venues, including autonomous learning. It is adaptable to any venue or delivery methodology.
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33 == Scope ==
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35 The OSI-EDU-WG is concerned with helping the managers of projects, portfolios, organizations or consortia to gain an advanced understanding of strategies, processes and methods to optimize value, to control costs, and to manage risk through effective coordination, resourcing and governance of Free/Libre/Open Works (FLOW).
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37 The OSI-EDU-WG is oriented towards the application of explicit free/libre/open arrangements for:
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39 * Computer programs and their related use cases, specifications, diagrams, code, tables, documentation, data;
40 * Any other field through which ideas and experiences can lead to complementary learning and synergies .
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42 The OSI-EDU-WG is based on a pluralist premise that there is intrinsic value in communicating the diversity of logically reasoned perspectives on issues and topics, taking into account the ongoing merging and differentiation of various concepts and efforts through time.
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44 The OSI-EDU-WG notes that at present (June 2014) the global governing bodies of the four most widely used frameworks in the field of project management education, standardization and certification each neglect the methods and processes of free/libre/open way in their documentation of competencies ([[ISO TC 258>>url:http://www.iso.org/iso/standards_development/technical_committees/other_bodies/iso_technical_committee.htm?commid=624837||title="ISO TC 258"]], [[IPMA>>url:http://ipma.ch/||rel="__blank" title="IPMA"]], [[ICCPM>>url:https://iccpm.com/]], [[GAPPS>>url:http://www.globalpmstandards.org/]]). Furthermore they each operate under restrictive intellectual rights stances. The OSI-EDU-WG encourages such organizations to include the free/libre/open way in their respective domains and operations.
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46 Topics that are "out of scope" involve anything not directly relevant to the contextual knowledge and operational know-how required by managers/coordinators of free/libre/open projects or portfolios, or their supporting organizations or consortia. The FLOW Syllabus does __not__ extend into the relative merits of various economic, political or sociological theories or scenarios. And the Syllabus is not the place for marketing or evangelizing of particular free/libre/open software or services, although examples are frequently used to illustrate concepts.
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48 == Participation ==
49
50 === Four "Working Committees" ===
51
52 The Working Group will be comprised of four "Working Committees" whose members proactively assist with the maintenance and evolution of the concepts, methods and strategies of The FLOW Syllabus, and meet once month via audio conference.
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54 1. The [[Educators' Working Committee>>doc:Working-Groups-Incubator-Projects.FreeLibreOpenWorksManagementEducation.Charter-OSI-EDU-WG-2014-2015.FLOW Educators Working Committee.WebHome||title="Visit the Educators Committee Page"]] meets on the first Tuesday of each month
55 1. The __Lawyers Committee__ meets on the second Tuesday of each month
56 1. The __Technologists Committee__ meets on the third Tuesday of each month
57 1. The __Project & Organizational Managers Committee__ meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month
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59 The OSI-EDU-WG seeks active participation in the Working Committees, at both individual and organizational levels. Committee Participants as well as OSI Board representation are listed in an annex to this Charter. Except for the OSI-EDU-WG Chair, no formal relationship with the OSI is required to be a Participant or Contributor with the Working Group, through its Working Committees.
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61 === Three Modes of Participation ===
62
63 * **Coordinator (of a Working Committee)**
64 ** Authority
65 *** Nominated by the OSI-EDU-WG Chair for ratification by the OSI Board on an annual basis.
66 *** Operates on behalf of the OSI Board. Any decisions by a Coordinator can be reversed by the OSI Board.
67 ** Role
68 *** Facilitates monthly meetings of the Committee to the full extent of its mandate.
69 *** Commits to pro-actively achieve the Purpose of the OSI-EDU-WG through co-coordination, co-athorship, etc.
70 *** Convenes, facilitates and participates in a Working Committee.
71 *** The Coordinators of the Working Committees comprise a Steering Committee with the OSI-EDU-WG Chair.
72 ** Funds
73 *** The OSI does not provide a salary or any fees towards this role.
74 *** The Coordinator may have expenses reimbursed by OSI on a pre-approved case-by-case basis.
75 *** The Coordinator may be compensated for this role by any third party and/or may commit services pro-bono.
76 *** The individual in the role of Coordinator may offer commercial services in the same fields as the Working Committee or the OSI-EDU-WG address, through OSI Board referrals and separately.
77 * **Participant**
78 ** Identified as a Participant in an online OSI-EDU-WG forum.
79 ** Speaks in the monthly conference call.
80 ** Requirement for being a Committee Participant is that s/he must work professionally in the discipline named by each theme, __OR__ may be voted in by working consensus of current team members (all either in favour or neutral, none opposed).
81 ** Each Participant's accession must be ratified by the OSI-EDU-WG Steering Committee on behalf of the OSI Board as being consistent with the purpose of the OSI-EDU-WG, and as having no apparent conflict of interest with the Purpose of the OSI-EDU-WG.
82 * **Contributor**
83 ** Identified as a Contributor in the online OSI-EDU-WG forum.
84 ** For the monthly conference call~,~, receives live audio output and interacts via text-based access to the discussion, which the Participants monitor.
85 ** Anyone may be a Contributor (i.e. no ratification).
86
87 __Overall Coordination__:
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89 * **Chair, OSI-EDU-WG**
90 ** Authority
91 *** Appointed and ratified by the OSI Board on an annual basis.
92 *** Operates on behalf of the OSI Board. Any decisions by the Chair can be reversed by the OSI Board.
93 ** Role
94 *** Commits to pro-actively achieve the Purpose of the OSI-EDU-WG through co-coordination, co-athorship, etc.
95 *** Convenes and facilitates a Steering Committee of the Coordinators of the Working Committees.
96 *** Participates in the Working Committees.
97 ** Funds
98 *** The OSI does not provide a salary or any fees towards this role.
99 *** The Chair may have expenses reimbursed by OSI on a pre-approved case-by-case basis.
100 *** The Chair may be compensated for this role by any third party and/or may commit services pro-bono.
101 *** The individual in the role of Chair may offer commercial services relevant to the scope of the OSI-EDU-WG through OSI Board referrals and separately.
102
103 === Communications ===
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105 * The OSI-EDU-WG Working Committees meet via http://osi.bigbluebutton.org ([[About BigBlueButton>>url:http://bigbluebutton.org/overview/||rel="__blank" title="About BigBlueButton"]])
106 * The monthly calls have their audio streamed externally, and also produce published minutes __with NO attribution__.
107 * Meeting minutes are recorded at http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/DraftingWiki_OSI-EDU-WG
108 * The FLOW Syllabus is maintained on a wiki: http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/flow-syllabus
109 * Task Management for the FLOW Syllabus is maintained on a fully free/libre/open workflow management system at http://www.projectmanagementhotel.com/projects/course-free-libre-open/issues?
110
111 == Activity Types and Resourcing ==
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113 1. __Development of particular educational modules__ to advance the scope, quality and utility of the syllabus, beyond routine updates, improvements and extensions. Such work can sometimes be contributed by suppliers of commercial/academic training as they adapt and extend the FLOW Syllabus to their contexts. Modules can also be individually resourced by organizations that wish to advance the coverage of certain topics within The FLOW Syllabus.
114 1. __Synthesis, coordination, administration, strategic direction and marketing__ of the Working Group and its four Working Committees: Educational; Legal; Technological, Management. To ensure continuity, this coordination work requires a moderate amount of regular core funding from one or more organizations that benefit from its overall availability and evolution. Business co-sponsors are required. (WG Chair: At least 1/2 day per week; Working Committee Coordinatorm: At least 1/2 day per week at this time.)
115 1. __Information about commercial/academic training based on The FLOW Syllabus__. The development, marketing and delivery of training services are external to the the activities of the Working Group. Such services occur as financially self-sustained ad hoc offerings by any organization or individual.
116
117 == Background Documents ==
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119 * [[The FLOW Syllabus>>url:http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/draft-flow-syllabus#HAbouttheFLOWSyllabus||title="The FLOW Syllabus"]]
120 * [[Meeting Notes of the FLOW Syllabus Working Group (OSI-EDU-WG)>>url:http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/DraftingWiki_WG_ManagementEducation||title="Meeting Notes of the FLOW Syllabus Working Group (OSI-EDU-WG)"]]
121 * [[Version 1.x Project Completion Report>>url:http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/OSI-EDU-WG%3A+Months+1+%26+2+%28March-April+2014%29+Project+Completion+Report||title="Version 1.x Project Completion Report"]]
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123 * [[Initial project proposal to OSI by Joseph Potvin, Nov. 7, 2013>>url:http://wiki.opensource.org/_media/projects:working_groups:potvinproposal.odt]]
124 * [[Brief Questionnaire/Interview to Identify Priorities for Advancing “A Management Education Syllabus on the Methods, Processes, Resourcing and Governance of Free/Libre/Open Works”>>doc:Working-Groups-Incubator-Projects.FreeLibreOpenWorksManagementEducationQuestionnaire.WebHome]]
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126 ----
127
128 = Annex A. OSI-EDU-WG Participants =
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130 UNDER DEVELOPMENT
131 Updates to this annex do not constitute changes to the Charter.
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133 == Participants in the OSI-EDU-WG ==
134
135 * **Chair, OSI-EDU-WG**
136 ** Joseph Potvin, jpotvin@opman.ca 819-593-5983
137
138 * **The [[Educators Committee>>doc:Working-Groups-Incubator-Projects.FreeLibreOpenWorksManagementEducation.Charter-OSI-EDU-WG-2014-2015.FLOW Educators Working Committee.WebHome||title="Visit the Educators Committee Page"]]**
139 ** Coordinator: Ken Udas, ken.udas@usq.edu.au
140 ** First Tuesday of each month
141 ** Participants
142 — Wayne Mackintosh, wayne@oerfoundation.org OERu
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144 * **The __Lawyers Committee__**
145 ** Coordinator: Amanda Brock amanda.brock@origin.co.uk
146 ** Second Tuesday of each month
147
148 * **The __Technologists Committee__**
149 ** Coordinator: TBD
150 ** Third Tuesday of each month
151
152 * **The __Project & Organizational Managers Committee__**
153 ** Coordinator: TBD
154 ** Fourth Tuesday of each month
155
156 == OSI Representatives in the OSI-EDU-WG ==
157
158 * __Working Group Sponsor__: Mike Milinkovich, mike.milinkovich@eclipse.org
159 * __OSI General Manager__: Patrick Masson, masson@opensource.org
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161 ----
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163 = Annex B. OSI-EDU-WG Workplan =
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165 UNDER DEVELOPMENT (To be determined via the Working Committees.)
166 Updates to this annex do not constitute changes to the Charter.
167
168 == Months 1 & 2 ==
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170 == Months 3 & 4 ==
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172 == Months 5 & 6 ==
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174 == Months 7 & 8 ==
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176 == Months 9 & 10 ==
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178 == Months 10 & 12 ==
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180 ----
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182 = Annex C. Supplementary Notes =
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184 * Anything in this charter that conflicts with requirements of the [[Bylaws of the Open Source Initiative>>url:http://opensource.org/bylaws||rel="__blank" title="Bylaws of the Open Source Initiative"]] shall be considered void.
185 * Anything in this charter that conflicts with the parameters of the [[OSI's Working Group Characteristics and Process>>doc:Main.Open Source Initiative Working Groups.Characteristics of OSI Working Groups.WebHome||title="OSI's Working Group Characteristics and Process"]] must be ratified by the OSI Board.
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187 * [[Working-Groups-Incubator-Projects.FreeLibreOpenWorksManagementEducation.Charter-OSI-EDU-WG-2014-2015.FLOW Syllabus Crowdfunding.WebHome]]

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