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Networked Labour University – Information Bulletin No. 2  [En] | 8-15
May 2015

1. NLU Opening Meeting took place on Thursday 7 May 2015

At the opening meeting, it is decided to hold bi-weekly meetings to
exchange updates, discuss technical and organisational issues, and
coordinate overall issued related to the platform development process.
The date of the next meeting is 21 May at 16:00 CET (UTC+2). Anyone
likes to engage and put a brick in the building of NLU cooperative
learning platform is more than welcome! Agenda and decisions taken at
the opening meeting can be read here:
http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/mod/lti/view.php?id=25

2. Occupy your space to test our system, and learn how to build own!

Our e-campus opens its doors to individuals, groups, and communities
that are sharing a co-operative and solidarity economy perspective. We
invite you all to start experimenting with and exploiting the
possibilities:
http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=9

Federating Moodle and Big Blue Button and using other plug-ins provided
with the Moodle, NLU e-campus platform allows to run feeds from other
websites and blogs, host social forums, embed external media, page and
other tools (like pads and wikis) and give access to scheduled online
classrooms on each spaces created on the e-campus. Together with other
design and admin options the overall system becomes a weapon of
mass-construction, for networking and organising.

NLU e-campus now gives access to individuals, groups and collective
projects access to productive and creative collaborative tool-kit that
enable users to schedule, assign and execute tasks collectively, to
organise strategic exchanges, skill sharing meetings, press conferences,
art shows, film screening, reading groups, educative or action oriented
events in all forms in one big shared space.

The NLU e-campus is organised as for main spaces: the ‘Conference Halls‘
which is devoted to one time large events; the ‘Training Centre‘ which
is reserved to various types of classes; the ‘Labour and Trade Unions
Forum‘ which is built for the use of labour and union related events and
debates; and finally ‘Open Spaces for Collaborations‘, the space created
for the use of work groups, collectives, and collaborative -local or
global- projects. If you like to reserve a space for your courses,
events, or group’s meetings just send us an email and we will help you
to create and manage it as you like! (admin email: [log in to unmask])

3. Courses being scheduled and opened for enrolment
Besides the Study Circle rounds scheduled at 3rd and 10th of June, that
were announced in the first bulletin, below classes are now open for the
enrolment:

Transformative Circles – One (En): Enrolment is open, starting date of
the class will be decided with the course moderator (Anna Harrris)
http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=6

Crisis of the Global Labour Movement: Threat and Opportunity (En, Es):
Enrolment is open, starting date of the class will be decided in
conversation with the course tutor (Peter Waterman)
http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=8

Skill Sharing for workers on Internet, computers, social media
communication and organising (Tr, En): Enrolment is open, sessions will
start when sufficient amount of people enrol to the groups (Örsan
Şenalp)
http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=3

Tektology Reading Group (En): Enrolment is open, sessions will start
when sufficient amount of people enrol to the groups (Örsan Şenalp)
http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=5

Introduction to the Critique of Global Political Economy (Tr,
En):Enrolments is open, courses starts in early September (Gürsan
Şenalp)
http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=4

Study Circle on Digital Labour (Tr, En, NL): Enrolment is open, courses
will start in September (Örsan Şenalp)
http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=2

Register and Enrol:
http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/login/signup.php?

In order to enrol any classes or to apply for a space for the use of
your organisation or groups, first you need to register as NLU user by
clicking the above link and filling a short form. Then you will be able
to get in touch with the course contact person. Write to admin for
support (admin email: [log in to unmask]).

4. NLU receives 1000 FairCoin donation from FairCoop’s campaign
Following its May Day launch, NLU started to accept donations in
FairCoin, and the good news is that we did just receive the first
donation from our sister cooperative-ecology Faircoop. See FariCoop
campaign here: https://fair.coop/faircoop-donates-100-000-faircoins/

And to donate NLU, and other GNLU projects via bank-transfer you can use
our CoopFunding campaign here:
https://www.coopfunding.net/en/campaigns/global-networked-labour-union/

In solidarity!
Networked Labour University