Roling Open Space Wiki Vanning

[Ted Ernst]

yes, it was Tom or course, should've mentioned his name

Very different than a roadtrip with pals because a roadtrip with pals has
conversation that flows naturally from movies to sports to wiki to
organizing to co-ops to currency systems and so on, without any direction or
point of focus, without an objective to any of the individual conversations
and without any documentation.

This 2 day rolling open space was like open space where we each proposed
topics and then worked on those topics one at a time, of course sometimes
wandering, but always having a point to come back to. Some of them were
about meaning in life and sprituality and tend to be much like a trip with
pals, getting ot know one another and ourselves, others were much more
technical and felt like advancing projects that we all care about. We're now
here for a 3 day conference where we're going to continue in open space even
though the conference isn't, and then 2 days back in the van where I'm sure
we'll be even more focused on next steps. So the bottom line for me is that
this feels like continuing the work we're already doing on-line, not just
shooting the breeze. And it's all documented in the notes on
http://wiki.wikisym.org/space/WikiVanning, not very human readable by others
yet, but we can pull out the pieces that feel like they need to live on.

Hope you're well.

hugs,
ted

On 10/15/05, Tree Fitzpatrick <therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ted. Umm, was the guy in Portland who mentioned Peggy Tom Atlee?
>  Thanks for telling us about your day in open space. The question I am
> about to ask I ask with fondness and sincerity: how did this day differ from
> a 'road trip with pals'?
>  I'm listening.
>
>  On 10/15/05, Ted Ernst <tedernst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here's a photo of our wall (the dashboard):
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedernst/52723409/
> > and my others
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedernst/tags/wikivanning/
> >
> >
> > On 10/15/05, Ted Ernst < tedernst at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > I've never had a day quite like yesterday.
> > >
> > > I live in Chicago, flew to Portland, OR Thursday night and yesterday,
> > > spent from about 8am until 11pm in open space with 3 other people without
> > > the normal "breaks" for meals and such. Clearly a lot of times meal times at
> > > a conference are continuations of the sessions and topics from the
> > > conversation. This felt different. Let me back up. We're on our way to
> > > WikiSym, a conference (non-open space) in San Diego that starts Sunday. We
> > > wanted more face to face time in open space so we decided to do this drive.
> > >
> > > So leaving Portland, we got out some mailing labels and put our topics
> > > on the dashboard of the van! We drove to Eugene, about 2 hours away, and
> > > stopped for brunch at the Walnut Street Cooperative, a house where 9 people
> > > live. The brunch was hosted by two people and several others also joined in
> > > (those here are the right people!) and there were some really amazing
> > > conversatons and beginning friendships and collaborations there. After
> > > brunch we wanted a photo of all present so someone went to get another
> > > housemate to take it. When he found out who the travelers were and what we
> > > were doing, he asked if we had 5 minutes to hear about his stuff. We agreed
> > > and he blew us away for another 20 minutes and Peggy Holman's name came up
> > > as one of his collaborators. Connections!
> > >
> > > Then back in the van, just stops for bathroom and fuel (we had
> > > provisions with us in the van so didn't need to stop again to eat) and we
> > > worked through topic after topic from the dashboard. I'll have to get a
> > > photo of the dash uploaded, but in the meantime, here are our notes:
> > > http://wiki.wikisym.org/space/WikiVanning
> > >
> > > What a day!
> > >
> > > peace,
> > > ted
> > >
> > >
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