Open Space and Cyber Space Re: New Member Introduction

Zelle Nelson zelle at knowplacelikehome.com
Wed Dec 14 08:43:10 PST 2005


Hello Kevin,

Welcome. Here's a link to an interesting article about the internet and 
one of it's original thinkers that may help you to connect Open Space 
and Cyber Space:


http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly.html

It's about "the guru of the participation age." Here's a little excerpt:

"I just love that," O'Reilly said, his ever-present sheepish grin taking 
on a late-afternoon wistfulness. "'Beneath every no lays a yes that had 
never been broken.' To me, there's this wonderful spirit.... You know, I 
believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make 
life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that 
work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every no 
lays a yes that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that."

And to think we were just talking about Internet protocols. O'Reilly's 
theories about the next Internet seem on the mark. But the impromptu 
poetry recital diverted my attention to O'Reilly himself. As it turns 
out, the levers and pulleys of this new Net neatly reflect the operating 
principles of the man who helped define it: a philosophy of 
participation and sharing and a sense that collective action will 
inevitably accrue to the greater good.


After reading this article I did a little looking around the net and 
found a great desire to find a way to interact in human time in a way 
similar to interaction in cyber-time. There were some attempts and 
threads talking about different ways of coming together for conferences 
for example, but nothing quite like Open Space. I added a my comments 
about Open Space but haven't been back to see if the seeds had done any 
germinating.

I believe Open Space works best with minimum structure and maximum 
freedom to interact, move, follow your two feet and your passion (what 
you love), and the internet works best within the same minimum structure 
and maximum freedom, building community and indivuduality at the same time.

I believe we will begin to find more ways that there are links between 
Open Space and Cyber Space. It will be very fun to watch!

with grace and love,

Zelle

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Kevin Cameron wrote:

> >
> > Cameron,
>
> It's "Kevin", by the way :) (Cameron is my last name, though I always 
> thought it was a cool first name too and wanted to be called Cameron 
> Cameron)
>
>
> > The practice of Facilitation, as
> > it has evolved, is often understood to be the collection of various 
> tools
> > and techniques that are then "done" to, or for, people. And the expert
> > Facilitator is understood to be the person with the biggest tool box.
>
> Interesting that you mention that now as, at the very moment your 
> email arrived, I was watching a webcast about phone companies and the 
> Internet. ( http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20051128_111 
> ) anyway, the lecturer was talking about stupid networks, about how 
> they are end to end, and nothing happens in the middle, and keeping 
> things out of the middle preserves the value.  Basically,
>
> "Don't crap up the middle of the network with assumption-driven 
> software such as security, content awareness, anti-malware-ware, etc..."
>
> In OS terms, I guess this would be
>
> "Don't crap up the middle of the space with assumption-driven 
> facilitation tools such as XYZ....."
>
> He also talked about how, in a stupid network, the amount of work put 
> in by the engineer (or facilitator) stays constant, while the value of 
> the network grows exponentially because it is created at the edges 
> (the participants).
>
> I'm only half-way through the web-cast, but I expect to find some 
> other OS relevant analogies before I am through... maybe describing it 
> in terms of the Internet is some ammunition to help me promote it as 
> an effective tool at work!
>
> Kevin
>
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