The first convening of key stakeholders, funders, and leaders across various "open" domains to plan an Open Policy Institute will take place on October 3-5, 2012. This meeting will be held jointly with the School of Open, an initiative with overlapping aims.

Logistics

Meeting Venue

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

51 Vista Lane, Stanford, CA 94305

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Since the venue does not have parking, we are providing a shuttle for both out-of-town and local participants from the Hotel Avante. Local participants may also choose to take a taxi or get dropped off at the Carnegie Foundation at their own expense.

Hotel

Hotel Avante

860 East El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040

650-940-1000

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Hotel check-in time is after 3pm on Oct 3 and check-out is by 12pm on Oct 5.

Ground Transportation options

Participants will cover their own incidental expenses including ground transportation to/from airport and parking.

To/From San Jose International Airport (SJC)

SuperShuttle: ~$19 per person each way. Anywhere from 35-75 minutes.

RJ Travels car service: $47 each way. ~15 minutes. Reference Creative Commons when booking for this discounted price. :Contact is “Judge” (408-483-1313; http://www.rjtravels.com/).

Taxi: $40-50 each way. ~15 minutes.

To/From San Francisco International Airport (SFO)

SuperShuttle: ~$35 per person each way. Anywhere from 50-90 minutes.

RJ Travels car service: $80 each way. ~30 minutes. Reference Creative Commons when booking for this discounted price. Contact is “Judge” :(408-483-1313; http://www.rjtravels.com/).

Taxi: $100-130 each way. ~30 minutes.

Public transportation (not recommended) We do not recommend taking public transportation due to the length of time and amount of transfers required, especially if you are unfamiliar with the area. However, for the more adventurous, the following public transit routes are available.

From SJC

Travel Time: 1 hr 11 min

Mode: Bus, Walk, Caltrain

Cost: $2.00

From SFO

Travel Time: 2 hr 4 min

Mode: Walk, Bart, Caltrain, Bus

Cost: $9.30

Agenda

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

5:45 PM: Shuttles from Hotel to Dinner

6:00 PM: Dinner at Vaso Azurro, downtown Mountain View

7:30 PM: Shuttles back to Hotel

Thursday, October 4, 2012

7:30 - 8:30 AM: Breakfast at Avante for hotel guests

8:30 AM: Shuttles from Hotel to Carnegie 9:00 - 9:30 AM: Introductions around the room

9:30 - 9:45 AM: Spectrogram

9:45 - 10:45 AM: Identifying needs workshop

10:45 -11:00 AM: Coffee break

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM: Addressing needs workshop

12:15 - 1:30 PM: Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 PM: Pitch, Vote and Discuss

3:00 - 3:15 PM: Coffee break

3:15 - 3:45 PM: Vision break-out

3:45 - 4:15 PM: Draft structure and branding for OPI

4:15 - 4:45 PM: Closing circle

4:45 - 5:15 PM: Next Steps

5:30 PM: Shuttles to Hotel

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6:30 - 7:30 PM: Downtime/Optional Wine hour as provided at Hotel Avante

7:15 PM: Shuttles from Hotel to Dinner 7:30 - 9:00 PM: Dinner at Xanh, downtown Mountain View

9:00 PM: Shuttles back to Hotel

Friday, October 5, 2012

7:30 - 8:30 AM: Breakfast at Avante for hotel guests

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8:30 AM: Shuttles from Hotel to Carnegie

9:00 - 9:30 AM: Warmup/Spectrogram

9:30 -10:00 AM: Overview/Background. Philipp and Jane introduce P2PU, School of Open, current progress to date.

10:00 -10:30 AM: Constructing use cases

10:30 -11:00 AM: Prioritizing focus areas

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11:00 -11:15 AM: Coffee Break

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11:15 AM - 12:00 PM: First break-out

12:00 - 12:15 PM: Report back

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12:15 - 1:15 PM: Lunch

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1:15 - 1:55 PM: Second break-out: Choose your own adventure

1:55 - 2:30 PM: Choose your own adventure, round 2

2:30 - 3:00 PM: Closing circle

3:00 PM: Shuttles back to Hotel (for those who are returning to hotel). Others arrange their own ground transport (taxicab or pick-up only) directly from Carnegie.