The Northeast Regional Computing Program has recently revived several dormant communities of practice, including one for open educational resources. Several people expressed interest in leading it and two, your humble presenters were chosen. Through emails and phone calls the community leaders decided to start with a discussion forum of many threads covering the multitude of topics that come up in the process of creating and managing an open resources initiative. Repositories for OER tools and finished products will also be featured in the nascent project. The idea of working together for the common good isn’t new but the term was created and explicated by Jan Lave and Etienne Wenger in the late 20th century. They argued that people sharing a common interest or occupation shared resources and experience all participants would benefit both personally and professionally. The result is the creation of a social capital benefitting both the individual and the collective. While the group leaders have some initial ideas the power of a CoP is strength in numbers; as more people participate new ideas will lead to projects that hopefully create their own intellectual children. We are running this session as a roundtable meeting in order to initiate that process; this will comprise the rebirth of the NERCOMP open educational resources community of practice and will serve as fertile ground for a creative, dynamic partnership of equals.