Fw: An OSI Policy Question

Open Space Institute osi at tmn.com
Fri Mar 28 10:06:01 PST 1997


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> From: Richard Gilkeson <mentor at transport.com>
> To: osi at tmn.com
> Subject: Re: An OSI Policy Question
> Date: Thursday, March 27, 1997 11:05 PM
> > > Peg:
> > My response:
> > Those who have passion (interest; self-interest) around any topic, such
as
> policy issues should take responsibility for opening up the space for
> others with passion/interest/self-interest to decide (for themselves and
> the rest of us). Should your/their decision raise my or other levels of
> interest to where I or others need to covene an open space to counter or
> modify that decision, then I or others should take responsibility to do
so.
> Decision making, like planning, needs to be real-time, and open to
> modification as we get smarter, or gain insight into various issues.. I
> think it would be hard to have "dead issues" in an open space society,
but
> it might mean that we change policies regularly, which will undoubtedly
> frustrate those who think that tying things down permanently is a better
> way to operate. I suggest we go with the interested flow, try whatever
> ideas there seems to be some energy around, learn from them, invite more
> open space if needed to revisit decisions that merit revisiting.
> My mini response:
> OSI needs MONEY right now! Although trading for services sounds more
> democratic, I suspect it will have a fair amount of appeal. I'm against
> trading, although I'm not against taking fees and then paying those
> offering services for their services if we can't find a way to get them
for
> free or cheaper elsewhere. ("You pay me your $70, and I'll pay you back
$90
> for your technical help.") Money, after all, is what our society has
> adopted to get around the problem of always having to figure out what
> everything is worth in trade. I suggest we go with this convention,
despite
> my wishes that we had a society that had people and not money at its
core.
> > Dick Gilkeson
> > 



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