openspaceworld.org update
douglas germann
76066.515 at compuserve.com
Tue Apr 21 08:31:40 PDT 2009
Kaliya--
How could those things be done? What will it take to make them reality?
:- Doug.
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 18:10 -0700, Kaliya * 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.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.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
>
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>
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