Please join us...

Wed Jul 9 11:38:09 PDT 2003

Michael,
thank you for the invitation. In order to decide if I want to participate, I
need more information and hope you will provide it.
1. why is this site needed as well as the other great site that you already
have up and worked so hard on?
2. what are the "givens" that are implied in this new site. There are
implied givens in your other sites and yet they have not seemed to be openly
stated. For example, for me, the word "practitioners" is not something I
agree with at all. I have noticed it having slid into use on this list and
elsewhere as though that is what we refer to ourselves as. Is it a "given"
that this is some of the agreed upon vocabulary and if so, whoever made that
decision?
3. please tell me a little more about people being able to go in and edit
anyone's words. For example, could I post something, and without my
permission, someone change my posting but it still end up with my name on
it?

Thanks Michael.
Blessings to you and to all with whom you make Genuine Contact,

Birgitt

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Michael
Herman
  Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:08 PM
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Subject: Please join us...

  ...a call for online leadership in an expanding online community of
practitioners:

  There a have been OSLIST rumblings about this for some time now, but
finally the time has come to formally invite you to please join us at
http://www.openspaceworld.NET -- an entirely new web address, to be
developed as a peer to the existing .ORG and .COM sites.

  This new site is a wide open "wiki" website -- a project and posting space
for OST practitioners worldwide. "Wiki" is a hawaiian way to say "quick."
Its use is quick AND easy -- like one big online Open Space -- an electronic
combination of marketplace wall and ongoing proceedings document.

  Like Open Space Technology itself, the many potential benefits and uses of
http://www.openspaceworld.NET will only be realized as we use it together.
And like swimming, we will only really learn it by ‘jumping in’ and doing
it.   Please join us!

  Here’s what we might do there:

    * convene a practitioner's work group to develop a specific OST resource
    * collect some specific kind of OST stories, education, healthcare, etc.
    * post the the invitation and discussion topics from a community event
you hold, so that it can be replicated and extended elsewhere in the world
    * invite your participants in such gatherings to post their notes,
eliminating the need for photocopying and group 'reply-to-all' sorts of
emailings
    * post the notes from training workshops you are holding
    * invite your participants to continue to manage and document their
community followup projects online... thus offering them an immediate, free,
accessible, showcase and functionally open space website for their work.
    * add your name to the list of "SpaceHolders" which means that you will
help keep the place tidy (visit every now and then) and also will be
recognized at the site as a leader in the open space community worldwide
    * send prospective clients there to see the showcase and notice that you
are an active member of this worldwide practice.

  Our collective http://www.openspaceworld.NET wiki website opens many new
possibilities, the list above being only the beginning of what might grow up
there.  As we get started, we must be patient with ourselves as we learn our
way into this.  Some of us must also be active and responsible there, or
nothing will happen there.  There is no Plan B.  <grin>

  PLEASE JOIN US... in a working group that will begin posting and learning
there, and in the process, will give the space shape for others to come and
work and learn together.  So far, the http://www.openspaceworld.NET wiki
website is brought to you by Open Space Institute (USA) and a lot of time,
energy and love by Michael Herman (John wrote that part).

  We believe it has the potential of helping all of us to expand our
practice in Open Space. We also believe that it is going to foster shared
learning among all who become involved.

  Click http://www.openspaceworld.NET and then click all around the new
site, and see if this is something you would like to play and grow together.
It's all very new and emerging.  We need your help to give it shape and
direction.  We are eager for you to join us in this collective online
experiment!

  It's time to jump in!  Please join us!

  Open Space Institute, USA
  http://www.openspaceworld.NET

  Michael Herman, John Engle, Chris Corrigan, co-facilitators

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Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
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Chicago IL 60610 USA
(312) 280-7838

http://www.michaelherman.com - consulting & publications
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http://www.openspaceworld.org - worldwide open space

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