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Schedule WP 1: Connecting & Collecting

**Preliminary meeting: **

Date / time: 2 March, 15.00-16.30
Agenda:
- General update project
  - Design + preliminary website
  - WP 2 is starting
- Discuss WP1 overall planning
- WP 1-specific updates
  - Make a plan of decision making for Etherport improvements
  - First session end of March (online) (date picker)
    - 18 March – Anja, Lilian (before 14:00), Gijs, Heerko, Mark, Dorine (12.30 - 15.30) – 6
    - 1 April – Anja, Lilian, Gijs, Heerko (not ideal)x, Mark , Alix (ideally after 12), Miquel, Gersande, Dorine (12.30-15.30), Michele – 10
    - 2 April – Anja, Lilian, Margarita (I have to see if I can switch my day home with Miray with Martijn), Gijs, Alix, Mark, Dorine, Michele – 8
    - 3 April – Anja, Margarita, Gijs, Alix, Mark – 5
    - 8 April – Anja (12.00-17.00), Lilian, Gijs, Heerko, Alix, Gersande, Michele – 7
    - **9 April – Anja (before 15.00), Lilian (before 14:00), Margarita (same as before, can check with Martijn about switching my day home with Miray), Gijs, Heerko, Alix, Miquel, Gersande (after 11:00), Dorine, Michele, Mark – 10 **
    - 10 April – Anja, Margarita, Gijs, Heerko, Alix, Miquel (till 15h), Dorine, Michele (till 15h) – 8
  - Survey / sharing it : https://cloud.thehmm.nl/apps/forms/s/8HAXHy2iw9n7dSK6dipAT3jH
  - Invitation book launch: How Material Comes to Matter : https://rietveldacademie.nl/en/page/36261/publication-launch-how-material-comes-to-matter
  - Sharing of open call: https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/ (deadline 17 March) **Internal work session #1: Documentation & publishing infrastructure **
Date / time: End of March (tbc) – 2.5 hrs
Participants: Gijs, Lilian, Heerko, Anja, Márk, Dorine, Margarita, Radek, Michele, (BB), (Sepp)
Agenda / questions to work on:
- Etherport introduction, onboarding
- Development documentation framework for Connecting Otherwise
  - Involves: Sharing of possible learning formats, and how documentation can be integral to a workshop situation
  - Where/how do the learning formats live on after the project is completed?
Internal Session #2: Commoning, exploring collective ownership **
Date / time: End of September (tbc) – 1.5 hrs
Participants: Sepp, Lilian, Gijs, (BB), Anja, Radek, Heerko
Agenda / questions to work on:
- How can Etherport be organised in the future? What are interesting commoning strategies
- Re-use of certain tools, built on things that are already developed.
- How is Etherport going to shape in the future (structure for decision making)? **Internal Session #3: Expansive colophoning ‘collective tool ecologies’ + preparing student workshop **
Date / time: Mid / end October (tbc) – 2.5 hrs
Participants: Gijs, Lilian, Anja, Márk, Heerko, Margarita, Radek, BB, (Dorine?), (Sepp?)
Agenda / questions to work on:
- Colophoning, tracing and making visible collective tool ecologies, how they intersect, travel **Student workshop(s) / Practicum Generale: **
Date / time: November (+/- 4 sessions on Wednesday mornings)
Participants: Students of GRA/SI (open sign up)
Hosts: BB, Heerko + contributions by Gijs + support by Lilian, Anja, Márk
Focus:
- Colophoning / Web-to-print / Reusing knowledge and materials
- Simultaneous publication sprint with Etherport (writing, editing, designing)
  **November - December **
Planning of final event with WP leaders:
- Participants: Lilian, Margarita, Dorine, Anja, Márk