Glossary of Terms

[GraceAnn]

Sounds good........Thank you!        G.
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  From: Lisa Heft 
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  Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:47 PM
  Subject: Glossary of Terms


Hello dear colleagues -
 
I am building a glossary of terms for Open Space / Open Space Technology.  I will make this available for your reading pleasure and your usage on my (soon, soon) website.
 
I am building this list in English, which is my home language.  Some of these terms are very American, and you can help me by sharing with me other words which are used in the English or other regions - and you can also send me the words in your other home languages so I can list them, too in the glossary.  I imagine that this might also help readers of the Users Guide who may be reading the English version when English is not their first language.  When I mean translation, please note that I mean not literal translation of each word, but a cultural translation capturing the nuance of these concepts or describing these items in ways that your country's culture will understand - no need to teach people a new vocabulary when we can describe each word in ways people will understand through their own cultures and codes.  And I know this will be very regional in many cases - for example someone from Mexico may say something in a different way than someone from (hi, Jaime) Peru or Bolivia.
 
For you English speakers, I do want to find definitions in English for each of these words - let us not assume that those in other communities of practice know what our words mean.  
 
Because it is a glossary, and because I will attempt to put all languages you send me into this glossary, please try to give me a phrase or a sentence and not a paragraph for each word.
 
It's an interesting puzzle.  Who wants to play?  And: any words I'm missing.?
 
Agenda wall             
Book of proceedings (also known as proceedings)
Breaking news          
Breakout spaces        (also known as Discussion areas)
Bulletin board           
bumblebees             
butterflies               
Chaos theory            
client       (often known as sponsor, host)
closing circle            
Coffee break            
Community bulletin board        
Community marketplace          (also known as marketplace)
Complexity theory    
convenor  
convenor responsibility form  (also known as notestaker forms)
convergence            
Easel pad, paper (also known as flip chart pad, paper)
evening news           
facilitator (also known as practitioner)
Four principles          (also known as principles)
griefwork 
grid          (also known as matrix)
Harrison Owen         
holding space           
invitation 
issue        (also known as topic)
Law of two feet         (also known as the one Law)
marker     
masking tape
matrix      (also known as grid or space/time matrix)
Medicine wheel        
morning announcements          
News room               
Non-convergence      
now          
Open Space Institutes              
Open Space on Open Space  (also known as OSonOS)
Open Space Technology            (also referred to as Open Space)
OSLIST                    
passion    
post-its    
responsibility           
session     
Space invaders         
Systems theory        
Talking stick            
theme      
User's guide            
   

  Thank you, you wonderful word crafters,

   

  Lisa

   

  L i s a   H e f t

  Consultant, facilitator, educator

  O p e n i n g  S p a c e

  2325 Oregon 

  Berkeley, California

  94705-1106   USA

  (+01) 510 548-8449

  lisaheft at pacbell.net

  (coming soon: www.openingspace.net)

   

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