Roling Open Space Wiki Vanning

Tree Fitzpatrick therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com
Sun Oct 16 13:34:20 PDT 2005


Thanks, Ted. I knew it was different than a road trip. . . the
focus/intention,I guess, is the distinction.
 Maybe my comment should be posted over in the OS blog that Wendy recently
started. . . and I'll head over there. A road trip without a marketplace is,
IMHO, also an open space gathering.

 On 10/16/05, Ted Ernst <tedernst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Tree Fitzpatrick
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Elliot

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