The YearlyKos Convention

[Lisa Heft]

Hi, Heidi -

How nice to hear your 'voice' !  

(Heidi came to an Open Space workshop I held a few years ago and she is
delightful...)

I was thinking the same thing - that this (even without my having attended
it) would be the perfect thing for Open Space.  Even if they find they want
more conventional speakers or workshops for the first part, Open Space for a
day or two or at least for the last 4 hours ('what more do we want to learn
/ share / tell / ask / explore with each other before we all go on our
separate ways?').

I'd love to help you figure this out, toss some ideas about, and so on.

I think your observation and intuition about this is spot-on...

Lisa

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Subject: The YearlyKos Convention

Hi there, I don't post much here, but I was just at the YearlyKos  
convention in Las Vegas--I'm calling it my blind date with 1000+  
people--and it was amazing.  Even I was expecting a lot of animosity  
amongst attendees, as the DailyKos.com blog is political and we argue  
a lot. Instead, our passions united us.  I have never been to a  
convention where I felt so strongly that we would truly implement  
everything we talked about.  It was a peak life experience for me,  
and I've had a lot of them!

Anyway, the planning for next year is going to start soon and I, of  
course, want to pull for Open Space.  BTW, it was organized solely by  
volunteers who had never done anything like this before, and it was  
completely professional.  So, how do I do it?  I think the way Markos  
runs the DailyKos website is a lot like OST.  Everyone gets to post  
one diary every day.  The most popular ones rise to the top.  We had  
some great panelists there, and I'm sure we/they would want to do the  
same next year, but how do I invite in some OST?

Thanks in advance!

Heidi

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