openspaceworld.org update

Mon Apr 20 15:54:28 PDT 2009

friends and colleagues,

in the course of some recent conversations about the state of
openspaceworld.org, it surprised me to notice how many different places open
space is showing up all around the online world.  it's easy to focus on
oslist or osonos as centers of open space practice, and for sure they are.
at the same time, there are an amazing number of stories and interactions
taking place out there.

in the midst of all of it, openspaceworld.org just tries to point to as many
of those as possible.  in some cases i've helped initiate them (like the
flickr.com photo collection).  for those unfamiliar with the history,
openspaceworld.org is ten years old this july.  i wrote the first pages,
borrowing from existing materials and an earlier website and adding some of
my own writing and organization.  others volunteered to translate my "what
is openspace" text into at least 16 languages.  i posted and hosted those
translations.  along the way some others have helped with some heavy lifting
in moments or years of transition.  initially, i funded expenses.  later
others made donations.  in several years osi made contributions to offset
hosting fees and/or hours involved in managing the site, especially work
related to the osi bookstore facility.  see the bottom of the homepage for a
list of leading contributors.

at this point, openspaceworld.org works in four different ways with all of
the material out there, it...

• links to all the places we know of where interactive stuff is now
happening  (see first and largest group below, this stuff is exploding
totally separate from osw.org)
• publishes invitations and reports (in a blog), on an as-requested and
non-editorial basis (osonos, institutes, trainings, second group below)
• hosts a collection of basic information about what os is and how it works
(19 languages) (this, like the user's guide, is pretty stable stuff, at this
point)
• provides server space for various projects, like openspaceworld.NET and
the *Practice of Peace* recordings

the amazing thing to me is that so much is happening in so many different
ways, that there are so many ways to bump into open space stories, people,
pictures and conversations.  there are 337 members in a facebook group.
there are 6000 pictures tagged with openspacetech at flickr.  wow!

i think the most important page at openspaceworld.org is the homepage, which
tries to be the cleanest, simplest page possible, that links to all of the
new things happening around teh world and around the web, as well as all of
the older, original, basic "what is ost" stuff we offer in so many
languages.

as new things are developed on the web, or in the community, i invite you to
share links to big things like the new facebook group, for adding to the
homepage directory.  i'm glad to post short notices of upcoming trainings,
institutes, osonos's and such in the weblog.  (note that nobody is allowed
to post their own work directly to the weblog, even me.  when i have my own
story to tell there, i send it to one of the other 6 or 8 folks who have
access to posting there.)

in the meantime, i invite you to have a look at all these things (below)
that are already working, online and all around the world, thanks to you and
me and a whole lot of others who've never even heard of the oslist.  have a
look at the site, too... http://www.openspaceworld.org.  i've just spent
most of the day working to tidy it up.

will somebody send me the twitter hashtag that's being used, and some clue
about how to link to that?  how about myspace?  and anybody else building
something else out there we should know about?

many thanks,

michael

----

all of the following interactivity runs totally independently of
openspaceworld.org, on other people's passion, bounded by responsiblity.
all are linked from the homepage, some newly so...

• the oslist... probably our most concentrated center of interaction and
most extensive collection of stories and learning (started back i by our
friend murli at boise state university, searchable back to 1996)
• news published around the world (streamed via google search, stories seem
to come up at least once weekly)
• blog items published around the world (streamed via google alerts, anyone
can post to a blog, and new stories seem to come in daily)
• collected photos (6000+ photos now posted, anyone can post and tag at
flickr.com)
• videos (not sure how many, but anyone can and does post.  osw.org now
links to youtube search page)
• facebook group (with 337 members!, link from osw.org homepage)
• linked in group (not sure how many members, but questions already starting
to be posted, group linked from osw.org homepage)
• worldmap (developed by michael pannwitz, linked from osw.org, replaced the
osw.org facilitator directory)
• worldscape (developed by michael pannwitz, linked from osw.org, needs all
of us to post our stories there, and maybe somebody could post in the
stories joelle everett collected
some years ago into a series of newsletters, so that part of osw.org could
dissolve into michael's fantastic database system.)
• open space online (developed by gabriela ender, state-of-the-art online
workspace is linked from osw, hosting many events annually, usually
including an online osonos which osw links to)
• haitian, polish, chinese, and korean websites, totally independent of
osw.org
• twitter tag is starting to be used by some of us, and osw.org will link to
that as soon as anyone can tell me how
• is there a myspace group?  i couldn't find one, but thought i remembered
hearing about one at some point.

these things are supported by osw.org on an as-requested basis, as technical
steward -- not editor -- posted to the osw weblog and some simple directory
pages...
• osonos events (usually post invitation and links to proceedings, including
openspace-online osonos events, sometimes registration materials as well)
• open space institutes (organized by various folks around the world, many
have own websites, osw.org offers a list of websites and email contacts,
update at request of organizers)
• open space trainings (offered by practitioners around the world,
osw.orgposts invitations whenever trainers request it)

openspaceworld.org provides hosting and (more or less) tech support for the
following (mostly basic, static content)
• bookstore (owned and operated by osi-usa, storefront hosted and supported
by osw.org, osi chooses offerings and sets prices)
• translations of "what is open space" materials in 16 of the 19 languages
listed on the homepage (including wiki workspaces for italian, iberian,
haitian (migrated), estonian languages which began as open workspaces, but
now are essentially static, "what is openspace" material)
• occasional community projects like the oslist faq's, the "user's
non-guide" ebook, and community recordings of hho's *practice of peace*
• openspaceworld.NET (a wiki workspace that can be used by anyone for
anything related to os practice.)

--

Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates

http://www.michaelherman.com
http://www.ronanparktrail.com
http://www.chicagoconservationcorps.org
http://www.openspaceworld.org

312-280-7838 (mobile)

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