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OEWeek Live! Open Conversation on Online Communities
Thu March 5, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm GMT
Join us for another OEWeek live streamed open conversation. We are talking today about the state on online communities for open educators. We have a fantastic panel with leaders/organizers of a few of them.
Can we even define them? What makes for a successful online community? Does the platform matter? How do we facilitate open places without over structuring them? What works? What are the challenges? Can we find ways to cross connect better?
Joining us in the studio are:
- Jocelyn Miyara (Creative Commons) representing https://creativecommons.zulipchat.com/
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Knowledge Commons) representing https://hcommons.org
- Apurva Ashok (Rebus Foundation) representing https://rebus.community/
- Maren Deepwell (Reclaim Hosting and more) representing https://community.reclaimhosting.com/
- Heather Blicher (CCCOER) representing https://www.cccoer.org/
- Todd Conaway (University of Washington-Bothell) representing https://uwbopenweb.com/
- Amanda Coolidge (Pressbooks) representing a private Slack space
- Alan Levine (OEGlobal) representing https://connect.oeglobal.org/
Watch live here or return later to see the recording.
OEWeek Live is hosted in our Streamyard studio and you can watch with others on YouTube. Make use of the chat to ask questions and send comments to the guests in the studio.
Blog Posts on Communities Shared by Guests
- Sustainability through Community (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)
- Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 2 (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)
- Reimagining CCCOER: Strategic Planning and Candy Sushi (Heather Blicher)
- blogging4life aka Blogging Community of Practice (series, from Reclaim Hosting)
- On “Building” Community I Got Bubkis (Alan Levine)
- What’s My Next Online Community Life Cycle Curve? (Alan Levine)
Image Credits: Old TV – Time Tunnel – Cameron Highland flickr photo by liewcf shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 2.0) license remixed with OEW OEWeek image by Mario Badilla licensed CC BY 4.0 and Unsplasb Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash Free to use under the Unsplash License
