openspaceworld.org update

Mon Apr 20 18:33:42 PDT 2009

thanks, kaliya.  when you're done conferencing, please contact me directly
about the conversation you and i started last year when i pinged you about
your osonos session notes suggesting these things.  you might recall that i
suggested replacing the current blog with an aggregator or two, but i don't
have the skill to implement that.  i'd be glad for you to build and manage
that.

as for the wiki, the one we have is not restricted.  there is a password,
but it is posted explicitly in the HELP page and many different folks and
groups have used it.  i set the access this way after a couple years of
daily cleaning up spam.  this wiki was totally mainstream when it was set up
in 2003.  again, if you have the skill to migrate these things to newer
fancier forms, please take the lead.

as for admin rights and such, that stuff is all safely archived and shared.
there is an admin blog that is public but not publicized, holding all kinds
of admin background.  there is a group of 8 folks who worked for a couple of
years to support admin of the site.  i've actually worked very  hard to make
sure that i do not risk any of what's been created in these last ten years
when i step into a crosswalk or get onto an airplane.

again, i'd be glad to work with you on the things you want to create.

give me ring when you have time.

thanks for popping in mid-conferences.

m

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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Kaliya * <identitywoman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lisa just pinged me about this e-mail on the list and asked I respond.
> I don't have time until next week to surface and comment fully. I on the
> 4th day of 12 days in a row of "traditional" conferences that I attending as
> a participant speaker.
>
>
> At the core of a comment I made in response to a request for a donation to
> the OSI USA.
> I would like to see the core community site have:
> * a mainstream wiki that has broad access rights.  (this is an editable
> website) yes there is currently a wiki - and no it is not a current
> mainstream wiki platform (there for has a non-normal syntax) and it has
> restricted access rights.
> * an aggregation of blogs and another one for microblogging for
> practitioners  that pulls in the feeds from all the things that
> practitioners publish in these formats aggregated (via RSS) into one space
> (example from my technical community is Planet Identity (
> http://www.planetidentity.org)
> * admin access rights and responsibility held by several people (not just
> one person who if hit by a truck basically limits capacity of the whole
> community to function).
>
> -Kaliya
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 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.orgcould 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.org posts 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
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>> http://www.openspaceworld.org
>>
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