ABOUT #JELLYWEEK
JELLYWEEK: A GLOCAL EVENT TO ENCOURAGE WORLDWIDE COLLABORATION
JELLYWEEK is a global gathering of people all around the planet. After the success of the European JELLYWEEK in 2011 and the first Worldwide JELLYWEEK in 2012 the organizers are looking forward to the second worldwide collaboration event in January 2013.
ANSWERS TO 6 QUESTIONS ABOUT JELLYWEEK
The whole week from Monday 14th to Sunday 20th January 2013. You can create an evening event, a whole day event, you can organize an event for several days or the whole week. It‘s up to you and your local community. DO WHAT YOU LIKE TO DO.
EVERYBODY CAN JOIN, WHO LIKES TO COLLABORATE. In the last Jellyweeks there were coworking, entrepreneur, changemaker, developper & innovation networks involved, but it‘s the purpose of Jellyweek to connect more problem-solving networks. Invite your collaborators.
IT CAN HAPPEN ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN EVERY COUNTRY, EVERY CITY, EVERY VILLAGE ON OUR BEAUTIFUL PLANET. In the last year there were 223 jellies hosted in 35 countries in 6 continents including Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Columbia, Egypt, Kenia, Singapore, Kasachstan, USA and most of the European countries. How the jellies will spread in Jellyweek 2013? It‘s up to you and your networks.
For the organization of your local event you choose a location you like, e.g. a café, public place, office, coworking space or your house. You invite people to join you there. You can also open the doors of your organisation to invite people to collaborate.
This local event will be connected via social web channels with all the other jellies worldwide. So Jellyweek will happen simultaneously at your place, in many different places worldwide and in the virtual space.
USE THE POSSIBILITY OF JELLYWEEK AND DO, WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. You can host a local event and invite your local community. It could be a classical jelly (term from the coworking scene), which means an informal collaboration sessions free of charge and with an open agenda.
You are also free to create all kind of events in this week, which are fostering your local community in the spirit of collaboration. This could be barcamps, cocreation sessions, workshops, discussions, hackathons and many things more, which we can‘t predict. The philosophy of Jellyweek is guided by the principles of self-organisation. That means letting the topics completely emerge by the interests and dreams of the worldwide community.
The local jelly communities are invited to connect with other communities worldwide to communicate, collaborate and create new partnerships and action on the global level.
The purpose of Jellyweek is to foster the emerging culture of new forms of work and collaboration, to strengthen local communities of all kinds and to build new friendships and collaborative structures between them globally. LET‘S GLOCALIZE AND WEAVE A BIG NET OF COLLABORATION, THAT REACHES OUT ALL OVER THE PLANET.
SIMPLY REGISTER (please follow the steps in this onepager), plan your Jelly, activate your community and connect with communities worldwide.
DO YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS?
Ask Anni Roolf /// anni.roolf@dezentrale.eu /// @anniroolf /// facebook profile
