[OSLIST] Come join us at Open Space Technology World Community Ning site!!

[Lori Palano]

Merci Diane! You found a way to express what I was sensing, and to help me clarify it all for myself.

In an open space workshop, if I would like to use my 2 feet to find another conversation, I can pass by the agenda on the wall and find where I want to go. This is what I hear in Diane's comments, that it could be very useful to have a place of connection from which each person's passion and responsibility can flow. 

If each online platform is a breakout room, what could represent the agenda, or the place we can all get together for opening and closing circles?

Lori



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De : Diane Gibeault <diane.gibeault at rogers.com>
À : OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Envoyé le : Mar 17 novembre 2009, 11 h 53 min 40 s
Objet : Re: [OSLIST] Come join us at Open Space Technology World Community Ning site!!

 
Hi
Lisa and everyone,
 
These
are very interesting exchanges. There is no question that with the principle of
following passion and the law of the 2 feet, people can take initiative to go wherever
they feel like being. My
question is more about caring for ‘’community‘’. 
 
Can
the world OST community and its members as part of that community be best cared
for and nurtured if its place of connection are more and more dispersed? 
 
With
the multiplication
of places for conversations,can some core common place or market place stay, not
only alive, but healthy and vibrant to support ongoing learning for the new and
the not so new? 
 
The
question becomes where can I post my topic with a safe hope that I will find a
critical mass of people who have an interest for the OST theme and who, with their
diversity, can share a richness of thinking? 
 
How
different meetings (conversation sites) can one attend regularly at the same
time before becoming  overwhelmed as well as dealing with the many learning
curves on the technological side?  
 
Can
we, in the course of running around to different places (see a sample at end of
this email *), loose the core conversation place of the community, a place where you know you
can easily find others of that big community? 
 
Maybe
Darwin has the answer: a core OST community will end up where it can best
evolve and that will eventually be apparent to all. It’s still worth reflecting
what we want to influence in this evolution because we do have a part in influencing
evolution.
 
Lisa
you say: It's the three of us saying 'so
we keep feeling / hearing other say' about a resource they and we want -and-
'so let's go play! 
 
It’s
great that you are attending to what has meaning for you. I hear from this that
playing in the other existing places for conversation (e.g.s below) has
limitations you want to overcome. 
 
So
to help me at least decide where I may want to focus my energy and resources which
have their limitations given other demands, can you describe the added benefits of
this new place you are inviting the OS community to go to and to multiply?
There may be very good reasons to do it but I would like to have a clearer
picture of the new possibilities of this new invitation. 
 
*  SAMPLE of OST conversation sites out
there:
 
-       On
the international scene, the OS List is already answering a need for many, to
connect and share information, advice and support. The information is always current
as it arrives instantly by itself in our email InBox – you don’t
have to decide which of the many other OST web sites you will open today. Many
say how it is already a challenge to find time to read everything that is of interest
to them on the List. 
 
-       Other
offerings like: Harrison Owen’s Blog and web, Link-In OST 
 
-       The
international French blog open to anyone around the world. See http://fosurfo.blogspot.com/ - created
2 years ago by the Regroupement francophone du Forum ouvert (RFFO) just after the
French international OSonOS in Quebec.
 
-       OSWorld.org
web where we are invited to contribute - many internet searchers transit
through it and we’re invited to visit the web sites of many who developed
materials on OST.  
 
-       Public
places that we’re invited as a community to keep current on OST knowledge
e.g.:  World Map, World Scape, World News, Wikipedia, 
 
-       Just
around Open Space Institute Canada Institute (OSIC) we have 3 forms of networks
for conversations and information not counting a growing number of individual
websites rich with OS information listed on OSIC’s website. 
 
 
Looking
for insights on the future, in the spirit of  having a healthy OS
community,
 
Sincerely,
 
Diane
 
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