Use this topic for conversations aligned with the Conference Track for Catalyzing Human Connection, Creativity, and Curiosity to Thrive.
How do we function in collaborative, iterative, or emergent ways to help individuals or groups of open practitioners cultivate resilience and collective thriving through connection, community building, and creativity? What role might curiosity play in creating new ways to support one another in our open initiatives?
For reference, see all sessions in the program for this track .
Or if you start a new topic in the conversation space, please use the human-connections-track
For Attendees:
cogdog
October 8, 2026, 5:30am
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Sharing links from Wednesday sessions Coding a Drawing Tool Together: Learning How to Contribute to Open Source Software by Roxana Hadad and Amy B. Woodman from the Processing Foundation (like MIT OpenCourseWare, it’s their 25th anniversary too)
Amy shared live demos and invited the audience to at the same tie edit the same code (try it here )
cogdog
October 8, 2026, 5:36am
4
Some links from Un-Grading Open: What Happens When Students Own the Outcome by Pranjal Saloni (Ontario Tech University)
cogdog
October 8, 2026, 5:42am
5
Links from Slowing Down to Lead: Design Lessons from the Rebus Luminary Fellowship by Amber Hoye and Apurva Ashok (The Rebus Foundation)
Interesting discussion ensued around the question of how different we are at when faced with assembling IKEA furniture, do we read the instructions!
Slides from the presentation added to Sched
cogdog
October 8, 2026, 5:49am
6
Links from GO-GN Canada Hub - Rediscovering the Land as Open Educators with Connie Blomgren and Aga Palalas (Athabasca University) plus Jessica O’Reilly and Manisha Khetarpal
Program in Sched
OEGlobal 2026 Conference Web Site
Main Space in OEGConnect
Front Entrance public conversations “outside” the venue