Junto for Adobe MAX Edu Summit

What is #junto?

radicalLY open telepresence.

Born on twitter.

An emergent Discussion Platform

What makes it different?

AN Open

Design

Process

Originally, “The Junto was a club established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin for mutual improvement. Its purpose was to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy, and to exchange knowledge of business affairs.” [wikipedia]

a distributed team of initiators emerged,

from nearly all continents,

engaged deeply in free-spirited,

collaborative development,

open to any and all,

connected by social media.

Radical? Sure.

Necessary? Probably.

Game Changer?

Would you?

We'd like to find out.

A dedicated intentional community of innovators and initiators

• Adobe continues to develop Stratus and Flash Media Server platform

• Apple's FaceTime delivers mainstream mobile telepresence

• Demoed live at Re:publica, exposure at Social Business Edge, ARBcon Berlin, Wisdom 2.0 conference, use as backchannel for Social CMO (May) & FooCamp (July), and Adobe MAX Education Summit (October)

• Skype announces premium (paid) group videoconferencing service (with max to 5 participants)

• Cisco confirms Open Source TIP (Telepresence Interoperability Protocol)

• Tinychat launches video chat service with twitter integration

What's going for us?

• looking to build BETA Prototype in Adobe FLex

• Alpha built On FCS Components

• Source code on Github

• alpha Prototype 0.05

Where are we now?

There is no "business model."

This is a public-interest project that could self-sustain through a network of university-based servers, bandwidth, and academic licensing, built and managed by a cadre of volunteer designers and developers.

• rapidfire innovation manifested in real-time

@aquarious kept rolling out small updates, in a live, collaborative prototyping process, discussing the interaction and making changes with live users

In 2 weeks time, 3000 unique visitors

#junto hashtag 1000 tweets in its archive

possibly tested by Tim Berners-Lee & Tim O'Reilly (maybe), among many others.

Interface concept

• transparency in collaboration

• strong belief in innovation coming from open processes

• Creative Commons, Open Source, Gift Economy, Peer Production, Co-Creation sharing of resources

• initiative-driven distributed leadership model yet unmanaged

• decentralized peer production model of co-creation

• a side project,"Delivered in Alpha"

• open informal synchronous multiparty video chat

• self-reflexive building process

• expand circle of collaborators to include Adobe developers

• reach out to already existing networks to utilize Junto

• rebuild prototype in Adobe Flex and graduate from FCS Components

ORIGIN of Junto

• No passwords, no registration

Junto started as an idea on @venessamiemis' blog, Emergent by Design.

• A truly social interface of self-regulating protocols of production and consumption

Within 2 days, the prototype was up.

The response to the post was immediate, with over 111 responses, some incredibly in-depth, on Venessa's blog.

Soon David Carroll @aquarious,

assistant professor at Parsons The New School for Design, approached Venessa to rough out a dirty prototype on the Parsons Flash Media Server.

Next steps

• Real-time public discussion platform with a symbiotic twitter backchannel

Within 10 hours of initial tweet announcing Junto prototype, we saw 25 peak video participants and 500 uniques.

• towards a visualization interface

• situate video discussions in time, place, topic, and social meritocracy

• communities of practice for project collaboration

• interactive talk radio

Junto Uses

• community debate

• education

challenges

• reinvention of commerical products
• emergent feature creep
• unpredictable development
• politics of open source systems
• scale while staying open, free
• build a hybrid Peer-to-peer (Stratus) network with a University-based network of Flash Media Servers for SharedObject() support

http://junto.cc

Attribution

@venessamiemis - Venessa Miemis - New York - meta-cog, muse

@notthisbody - Ishan M. - Los Angeles - archivist, curatorial, prezi

@gabrielshalom - Gabriel Shalom - Berlin - advocate, assimilator

@gavinkeech - Gavin Keech - Adelaide, Australia - designer

@CoCreatr - Bernd Nurnberger - Yokohama, Japan - amplifier