 All right. Well, I want to welcome you all to the first community meeting of 2022. Thank you so much for taking the time to be here today and to provide your input as we are diving into the planning for open ed 2022. Sorry, that someone's trying to call me. Hello, my name is Susan Payne. I am a K12 education specialist at the Oregon Department of Education and one of 12 members of the Open Education Conference Board of Directors. Several of us are going to be sharing the facilitation of today's meeting and a few others are here listening as well they'll introduce themselves in just a minute. We're going to use Mentimeter today and so I want to give just a minute to get to let folks get set up with this tool. If you haven't used it before, it's a it's a good idea to either use like a different browser or different device like your phone or a tablet, and you have a few options for how to how to join. Obviously, you can use the QR code that's there on the slide. You can also go to menti.com and type in the code that's there on the slide. The code is 17613520. And you, the other option is to use the link that is in the chat. I think Kaley put the link in the chat there as well. Thank you folks just a minute to get set up there on on menti and then as you are joining. We'd love to hear where you are joining from. All right. So, lots of folks from the States and then we've got Ontario and Dominica also represented. Wonderful. So what we thought we'd do this morning just for kind of a quick warm up, as we thought it would be fun to commute, create a community wordal. So in a word or two, we'd like you to share what open education means to you. Yeah, so access is a is a pretty common theme equity knowledge sharing like that flexibility easy. No cost. All right, well, our new board was announced on February 15. And it is made up of six members who are new to the conference organizing team, and who are elected to a two year term. And then six members who have served on a committee for open ed 20 or 21. These returning representatives were selected by the steering committee and will serve for one year. And this staggered term length model is intended to incorporate new voices and perspectives while still preserving institutional memory. And now I'm going to let the other board members who are here. Go ahead and introduce themselves so we'll start with Stephanie. Hi, I'm Stephanie Buck. I'm the director of open educational resources at Oregon State University. Folks Brandon Carson learning technology specialist and part time professor at Durham College and eddy student at Ontario Tech University. Good morning I'm Tanya Connerly and my full time professor of sociology at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. Hello, I'm Rachel Meisner. I am the open educational resources coordinator and a course designer for Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado. Life is good. I'm Robbie Melton Tennessee State University associate vice president, as well as the graduate Dean welcome. Hi folks, I'm Amy news bomb and assistant professor of psychology at Heritage University in Washington State. Hi, my name is Alita part of the Darceau I'm senior teaching faculty at Ontario Tech and Ontario Canada. I think Susan already introduced yourself and so I will go I'm Samantha streamer veneroso I'm a professor of English at Montgomery College in Maryland I'm also the chair of general studies. And with that introduction I will go ahead self introduction I'll go ahead and jump into a little bit of an update on our operations and how we're functioning as we move forward. This is our first year of community led governance. Over the past two years the conference was led by an interim, interim organizing partnership between open stacks, spark University of Maryland Kerwin Center and the Colorado Department of higher education. This current board is the result of a strategic planning process that took place over the last two years to move the conference toward a fully community owned governance model. This is a wonderful step forward, and we're working through the details for how to be the best board we can be. We have a meeting weekly and grappling with the scope of the work. I personally am excited to work with this great group of people to support this amazing conference, and we all look forward to your input throughout the process. Currently we're still being supported by spark through the transition period. This conference and this work would not be possible without their support. In addition to seeking your feedback and your engagement throughout the year in our community calls we're also looking for volunteers and we'll have other opportunities for community input as we go. Please do save the date October 17 through October 20 2022 for open ed 2022 it will be a virtual conference and we look forward to seeing you there. Please go ahead, turn it over to Rachel and Tanya to have some discussion. Awesome before you to jump in I just wanted to say a quick note hi everyone this is Haley I'm from the spark team and I'm helping to support the conference this year. I did just want to note we have a couple folks in the audience today who are past numbers of our steering committee so I just wanted to say a quick hello to Tiffany to arena. We have gone on to some other amazing people who have been great volunteers, countless others, Stacey I see you. Just incredible people too many to mention so just wanted to say a big thank you to all of you for joining us today. And with that I'll pass it on to Tanya and Rachel. All right everyone so we're going to get started with some discussion. So last year the steering committee chose the. Haley can you move on to the next slide please. Thank you ma'am and the next one chose the theme rise to action. This of course is flexible. We're not set in stone with rise to action but what we'd like to know from our participants is what does the theme rise to action mean to you so if you want to go ahead and submit what that means to you that would be great. So we're kind of combating bias to implement action move forward, more than just talk, answering the call to a challenge we have some great input here tangible indelible impact thank you so much everyone these are some great. Some, or this is great input for us we're so excited that rise to action means something different and kind of similar to each of you so I think Tonya is going to ask you the next question. Rachel, the next question is, are there other thing ideas that you have for open at 22. Again, as Rachel said we're, we are looking for the rise to action as a thing but your input and in reference to our community is very important. So can you please place your thoughts and reference to other things. Thank you so much to all of them, helping others plus one another one somebody really likes the rise to action, convincing the lagging adopters okay open with care, supporting students. All of these are great ideas, and most definitely as a community we will continue to look for the best thing for our open conference and 2022 shifting the paradigm that's great one. So after starting OER open after the crisis. Good. Thank you all for your input Rachel. All right so building off of that our next question is, what topics are you most looking forward to discussing at open at 22. So what kind of topics would you like see presented discussed, please feel free to submit as many as you'd like. So we have some here with data and reporting data analysis accessibility and UDL. There are new accessibility guidelines being released this summer so completely agree with that. Open platforms diversity advocacy sustainability equity, open platforms, lots of great ideas here so we appreciate your input if you think of anything else. This presentation will be available for a couple days after we're done here so please feel free to continue to add. I think Tanya has the next question. Thank you Rachel. Our next question asked. What else are you thinking about at this point in the planning process. So we just basically need to know from the community because this open ed is about sharing so exactly. What else are you thinking that we should implement in this planning process. I think that's going to most definitely will be asking for volunteers at the end of this community meeting today. How much work will take, how much work will this take. I think it's going to take a community so we need, we need everyone. Again as Rachel said this will be these information will be available to you after our presentation today. So please don't think that you know if you don't have an opportunity to answer now, it will be other times for you to answer. What else. What does sponsorship and funding look like in a community driven open education conference. When volunteers get free registration. That is an excellent question we will be answering all these questions. See, looking forward to getting to know like minded people. Hybrid format. All of these are going to assist us so much in reference to planning our conference subgroups. Thank you. Thank you all for your comments. This is Stephanie buck and wrap up. I just wanted to thank everyone for joining us today. It's been very valuable and lots of great information. As mentioned earlier, we are going to be looking for volunteers now we're still working to develop our committee structure so we don't have exact details yet but please feel free to express your interest in the volunteer role in the form that is linked in chat. And then our next meeting will be on April 8 at 1pm Eastern time. If you want to move the screen forward. Thank you. We'll be able to like I said, and we hope that you all join us at that time we'll have more conversations about the conference and about this, the whole process that we're going through here right now. And if you're so inclined follow us on social media to learn more about the conference and keep keep abreast of everything that's happening in in the conference. Hey, well thanks so much everyone I just wanted to say really quickly from the spark team. Just we're very excited to you know be able to support these amazing individuals this year. It's very early days of the planning process so we will have more information for you to come, but very excited for you to get a chance to meet the new board. Let us know a little bit about what you're thinking and sort of help us, you know make our immediate decisions moving forward so just thank you all for joining today. Just a little bit quick, but we have lots to decide and still sort of lots to work through so thanks for bearing with us, and please do, you know come to our next meetings where we'll be diving into some information more deeply. Like Stephanie mentioned, if you're interested in being involved, please do take a moment to fill out that form, and we'll be in touch. Thanks so much. I'm going to go ahead and turn off the recording.