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

Denise Tennen denisetennen at comcast.net
Tue Nov 17 16:12:00 PST 2009


Thanks for expressing that so gracefully Karen.

What you wrote below echoes how I feel about all this.

Denise
On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Karen Sella wrote:

> If someone builds a space—“building”—and invites everyone in a  
> community to come whenever they like, but doesn’t give everyone the  
> keys or the ability to renovate the place, I consider that place a  
> gift, not an obstacle.  If I don’t like the building or the fact  
> that I can’t do whatever I like in it or the fact that it gets a  
> lot of (well-deserved) attention, I can create another building or  
> invite people in the community to join me in the effort to create  
> something else—and all without calling the creator of the original  
> building a “dictator.”  It may not meet everyone’s needs, but I  
> kind of like the old place and I’m truly grateful to the person,  
> Michael, who created it, as well as all the others who have  
> contributed to it throughout the years.  If someone or a bunch of  
> some ones get together, and builds another place to open some  
> space, extending the invitation to hang out there too, I imagine  
> that I would appreciate aspects, if not everything, about the  
> character of that building too…
>
> Karen
>
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> Community Ning site!!
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>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Michael Herman  
> <michael at michaelherman.com> wrote:
> kaliya, and everyone else...
>
> what lisa heft has lauded as fierce love of this practice and this  
> community shows up a bit differently on my screen.  i've been  
> called irresponsible, unsafe, dominating, controlling and i'm  
> probably forgetting a few.  wow.  thanks for your thoughts and  
> acknowledgements about trust and such, holger.
>
> do you realize, kaliya, that openspaceworld.org actually does have  
> "mainstream" wikis --
>
> Yeah - MEATBALL WIKI IS NOT A MAINSTREAM WIKI.
>
> not one, but six of them?  we have an estonian wiki!  and a haitian  
> creole wiki.  and spanish/portuguese and italian and two in  
> english.  five (including one of the english wikis) are publicly  
> editable.  the sixth is publicly editable, but not obviously so.  i  
> use it to manage the main resources content of .org version --  
> because it is so simple and because almost anyone could step in and  
> understand and manage the thing very easily.  meanwhile there are a  
> number of people who do help out from time to time.
>
> leaving that aside, you've also called openspaceworld.org a  
> community asset.  i use this same term.  to me it's about community  
> service and community benefit.
>
> That YOU manage and control.
> This is dominating.
> It is framed as "THE worldwide home of Open Space Technology" is  
> what it comes up in google as.
> This is a community site and it should be run with community input  
> and more then ONE person with the keys to the web castle.
>
>
> GOOGLE and referencing and linking make it a very "uneaven place"  
> and those who have attention get more attention and those who  
> aggregete authority (as the openspace.net/.org site has) have more  
> power.  This is just true.
>
> It is the 3 & 3 top links in google when you search for open space  
> technology.  + 2 more links on first page.
> The second outgoing link off the wikipedia page (which is the 1st  
> link)
>
> This makes it weather you like it or not a community asset with  
> real power to shape and define things and should be run as a  
> community.
>
> responding to the two comments following this about "the internet  
> being open space"  IN one way yes.
>
>
>
>
> openspaceworld.org is something i give to the world so that it  
> might benefit.  but you say community asset and seem to ascribe  
> some right to control or manage.  so, what do you mean when you say  
> "community asset?"  and what is it about openspaceworld.org  
> and .net that makes them community assets?  and what about  
> openspaceworldmap.org and worldscape.org?  what about the the  
> chinese and korean and polish sites that have sprung up?
>
> harrison uses openspaceworld.com.  is that name a community asset?   
> and then there are those who've claimed an open space name at  
> facebook or myspace or linkedin, and now, ning.  is the use of the  
> open space name there something the community should be managing?   
> what about those who read the book, try it out, learn the way and  
> then dare to "train others" in ost.  is their use of the ost name  
> something to be managed as well?  how do you draw the lines between  
> these?  how would we manage them?  you said something about a small  
> group of techies making decisions and explaining them in non-techie  
> terms to the rest of the community?
>
> to diane and lori's points, way back at osonos7, 1999 in chicago,  
> when the openspaceworld.org site was just months old, michael  
> pannwitz put up a blank page on the wall and asked for everyone to  
> put the addresses of ost sites.  i had just barely finished getting  
> openspaceworld.org up and running, really, like the paint still  
> wet, but i stood back and told many people that michael's list was  
> what i saw as the future of the openspaceworld.org site -- just a  
> listing of other sites.
>
> OK so keep it that way as "just a list" not "THE worldwide home of  
> Open Space Technology"
>
>
> so first and foremost, i've tried to make the site link to things  
> happening everywhere, like the agenda wall, lori describes.  now,  
> i've also been willing to host lots of other things, wikis and  
> such, just to help people out, but  mostly that was before it got  
> so easy to start a ning group or a wiki or a whole new website.
>
> i think that we don't need to create so solid a center,
>
> IT IS "THE CENTER" cause it is referenced that way on the interenet  
> and frames itself as the center.
>
>
> but to let the center we have, especially in the quality of the  
> oslist conversation, permeate all these other places.  we go to  
> ning not because it serves us, but because there are a bunch of  
> folks out there who use ning as their primary way of working with  
> people.  same with facebook, linkedin, etc.  so to me, oslist is  
> the core conversation, and metanet before that.  but you know  
> what?  metanet and all the gorgeous things that happened there over  
> 4 or some years is gone.  same with the revival we had for a  
> while.  and yet, ost goes on.  and just like in ost meetings, not  
> everyone has to go to all of the breakouts.
>
> if i could secure into the future a single web asset, it would be  
> the oslist, for its archives and for its spirit.
>
> Again this goes to the heart of diversity.
> A super chatty mailing list is not the ONLY way and form that  
> people like to get information.
>
> The OST world wide site should be graphically higher quality -  
> cause all of our clients are likely to see it.  (I am not the only  
> one who hpapens to have a clientel oriented to professionalism and  
> how things look on the web. )
> IT should have a diversity of voices writing for it.
> IT should have a more systemic ways of capturing events that people  
> have.
> Many many things should be better about it because of where it is  
> in the online reality of things.
>
> Yes I am using the word SHOULD becuase I think it is important and  
> that as a community we should take responsibility and make it  
> better. TOGETHER. Not begging you to make changes or post things  
> (apparently the proceedings from last years open space on open  
> space in SF have not been posted yet).
>
> If you believe in "open space" for real on the web then more then  
> just you would be able to edit and post things. You would have an  
> open accessible usable wiki that you didn't have to request access  
> to (using more up to date forms of addressing spam).
>
>
>
> everything else, including the sites i've created, is gravy.  and  
> any sort of central conversation beyond the oslist feels like a  
> step backward.  we're already much bigger than a single site.  best  
> we can do is to link around a lot.
>
> when ost training was new, and even the term was quite new,  
> harrison wisely resisted the prevailing logic of certification and  
> control.  "people can tell when the space is really open" he used  
> to say of those times when folks called some strange things "open  
> space".  people will find what they need of this stuff online,  
> too.  even without the oslist and without openspaceworld.org and  
> dot everything else.
>
> if harrison had certified it, we'd be in the certification  
> business, not the ost business.  i think it's the same with  
> community asset management.  we could easily get into the online  
> practice community management business... which would be a shame  
> cuz there's already such a large and open group doing such a very  
> fine, while in no way perfect or ideal, job of managing itself and  
> its assets.
>
> You are not able to listen to clear direct criticism.
> Just spouting back "open spacisms" to justify your point of view.
>
> I must just call it as I see it.
>
>
> now this is in no way intended to block progress!  how ever could i  
> block progess of such a large and open community?
>
> Yes you control the website. You manage who can post. You decide  
> which technology platforms it uses. Sorry but you are blocking  
> progress.
>
> anybody can make anything they want and i'll just keep linking to  
> it.  all i'm saying is that we might not need to work that hard,  
> trying to create THE centrally managed always-up-to-date community  
> site.  what some might see as slacking off or mismanagement in my  
> site is actually my actively working to do less and less with  
> it...still working toward that vision of openspacworld.org as just  
> a list of websites, as so many sessions posted on the wall.  i'm  
> glad to stand next to it and tear little pieces of tape (simple  
> links) for those who would put something up for us.
>
> The Open Space World SITE IS THE CENTER OF THE OST universe online  
> because of how it is linked.
>
> It is like a going to a physical event and having on the front of  
> the 4 story building a GIANT banner 4 stories high - before you get  
> into the building to see any of what is there you see this BANNER  
> it makes you as a person who knows nothing about what is in inside  
> to go in or not.  THIS IS WHY I CARE about this site and want  
> things to change.
>
>  It is a community asset and it should be managed as a community  
> not with one dictator.
>
>
> The Open Space World SITE IS THE CENTER OF THE OST universe online  
> because of how it is linked.  This can't be "undone" it is the way  
> of the web. The questions is what is on that banner and who decides  
> what is on the art on the walls inside the building and the plays  
> that get produced IN THAT BUILDING.
>
> -Kaliya
>
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> m
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>
> --
>
> 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)
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Kaliya <identitywoman at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> My passion is for an open transparent "open space world" site that  
> is collaboratively run.
>
> Some coherent well thoughtout community deliberated strategy for  
> our online life - that includes adoption of open platforms and open  
> standards.
>
> I am naming a dysfunction a disruption in "the field of openness"  
> in 2 ways
>
> 1. Choosing a closed proprietary commercial place for the global  
> community to be invited to by world wide leaders.
>
>  2. That you Michael are dominating and controlling of a community  
> asset and blocking progress on updating and opening it.
>
> If you can't hear that and actually repond to these points rather  
> then pointing back at me "re my passion" then I guess you are deaf.
>
> -kaliya
>
>
>
> Kaliya
> www.identitywoman.net
>
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 10:01 PM, Michael Herman  
> <michael at michaelherman.com> wrote:
>
>> i think you're forgetting two things, kaliya.
>>
>> first, nobody is or can be "bringing the community" anywhere.   
>> anyone can invite all of us to anywhere and each of us will make  
>> our own choices about showing up.  no bringing at all.
>>
>> second, the open space institute is not responsible for your  
>> passion -- but you could be.  if you think something's missing on  
>> the great ost wall of the internet, just post it up there  
>> yourself.  you certainly have the vision and skills to create the  
>> things you want to see.  just go do it.
>>
>> as for ownership of stuff like ning content... have you ever  
>> noticed that we don't actually own our 13+ years of oslist  
>> content?  but if they closed us down tomorrow (and this really did  
>> *almost* happen a little while back), i'm sure we'd be back  
>> together again someplace else in a matter of days.
>>
>> meanwhile, we do already have dozens of community sites and sub- 
>> sites in this community, each one the product of personal passion  
>> bounded by responsibility.  and then a bunch of individual sites  
>> that offer even more.  i rather like that our web presence is so  
>> big and open that anyone can make an offering and be part of it,  
>> and that the whole of it is so much bigger than any single site or  
>> institute.  we're bigger, too, than your proverbial bus.
>>
>> m
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> 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)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Kaliya *  
>> <identitywoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> While appreciate the invitation to this space.
>>
>> I really object to bringing the community to private service.  The  
>> company NING is just like facebook or myspace it is managed and  
>> controlled ultimately by a corporation.
>>
>> It is closed source (the code that is used underlying the site is  
>> owned and not viewable by us).
>>
>>   The data of our use and the people on it - it is not clear about  
>> where it goes.
>>
>> The community life all the information is "stuck" in the system -  
>> it is not using open standards - so that at some point we wanted  
>> to leave NING we could.
>>
>> Ning does not have open standards avaliable for the activities on  
>> the site and HAS NOT BEEN INVOLVED IN ANY of the conversations  
>> around developing or adopting those under development for social  
>> activities on the web.
>>
>> There is NO Reason to do this.
>>
>> I think it would be much more responsible to get a  REAL COMMUNITY  
>> LIFE AROUND
>>
>> 1) A WIKI that is build on an open source "mainstream" wiki.
>> 2) A BLOG with community members contributing to and with  
>> different members free to start their own blogs
>> 3) A robust commenting system
>> 4) A twitter strategy for lists and community connections in that  
>> medium.
>>
>> ALL of the above can be built on open source tools
>> On servers that we manage and control. ( Or in the cloud but on  
>> our terms and we can move to a new service if we don't like. )
>>
>> No corporate entity can choose to turn it off.  We "own" it.
>>
>> All of the above can implement a common way to let members of the  
>> community login across all of them with one login/password using  
>> OpenID.
>>
>> NING HAS NOT PLANS to Implement OpenID - (or any of the other  
>> standards)
>> http://developer.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1185512%3ATopic%3A11361
>>
>>
>> I have been talking about this for well over a year but apparently  
>> there is no movement by the Open Space institute by the actually  
>> developing the community tools in community.
>>
>>
>> Kaliya * <identitywoman at gmail.com>
>> To: OSLIST <OSLIST at listserv.boisestate.edu>
>> Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM
>>
>> 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
>>
>> TECHNOLOGY strategy for this community should be done in an open  
>> transparent way.
>>
>> It should use "the best of" open source (this is very different  
>> then "free tools" that are closed source and corporate owned with  
>> "them untimately in control)  and focus on using open standards  
>> where possible.
>>
>> It should be developed in a way that includes the wisdom of those  
>> of us with tech backgrounds and done in a way that explains our  
>> decisions to smart people who are "not techies" so they understand  
>> the decisions/strategies and agree they are in alignment with the  
>> community values and vision.
>>
>>
>> global proceedings aggregator?
>> Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
>> Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:54 PM
>> Reply-To: OSLIST <OSLIST at listserv.boisestate.edu>
>> To: OSLIST at listserv.boisestate.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> here's a new one, i think.  for the techies among us.
>>
>> how would you capture proceedings if you were to have, say,  
>> dozens, or
>> even hundreds of events convened simultaneously and you wanted
>> everybody everywhere to be able to post their proceedings into one
>> central place.  everybody except spammers, of course.  videos can be
>> posted to youtube and tagged.  photos to flickr.  but what about the
>> text proceedings?  and there is also the issue of a directory of  
>> event
>> locations.  hoping this wouldn't require a dedicated
>> application/platform.  here are some ideas.
>>
>> -listserve like yahoo or google group - non-public is a downside
>> -facebook group - non-public is downside here too
>> -wiki - might be too complex for rapid scale-up
>> -blog - might be coolest, but might require moderation
>> -twitter - might there be a way to collect only the issues raised
>> everywhere?  tagged by location, perhaps?  could happen more places
>> cuz could send from cellphones?
>> -blog - could make a post or page for every event reported and then
>> let them post comments.
>> -just get everyone to start their own simple, free blog and use a  
>> blog
>> aggregator... might miss a lot of sites.
>> -google docs?
>> -blog with a single "guest/contributor" username and password,
>> publicly posted, with user only allowed to post reports, tagging for
>> author and location within the post?
>>
>> ...this last option might be best, but then we get to the question of
>> what if it all really works and folks wanted to post some stream of
>> ongoing results and actions.  could happen.  so the system might want
>> to support that.
>>
>> anything else you can think of out there in social networking space
>> that could support such a thing?
>>
>> i think i like the twitter option, but have no idea if it can be made
>> to function in this way.  could all of this be aimed at a single
>> twitter name, or just tagged with a single twitter tag?  and somehow
>> captured in a way taht was searchable and scrollable long after the
>> first events occured?
>> then there's the scenario where somehow we get to hack up a new
>> version of the world map <grin>.
>> so that's as far as i can guess, and maybe even a little past  
>> that.  thoughts?
>> many thanks,
>>
>> m
>>
>>
>> I read now that someone wrote in this thread "that NING does all  
>> this"  I should have brought forward these concerns then and  
>> perhaps get movement going in an open direction. I am sorry i  
>> didn't track that thread.  When I popped up and made the preceding  
>> comment I prefaced it saying I was in the middle of conference  
>> season.
>>
>> You are all in luck. I just "finished" my unconference season and  
>> have time to actually give to the communities I love and care about.
>>
>> I appreciate the care and attention that Artur Silva (Portugal),  
>> Shufang Tsai (Taiwan) and Lisa Heft (USA) have put forward to do  
>> this.
>>
>> I get that it was a utilitarian choice and was not informed by  
>> deeper issues and values choices that are being made by using  
>> closed source, proprietary and non-open standards based tools.  It  
>> was only done in love with the best intentions. I feel I have to  
>> speak up because I am technologically literate particularly in  
>> this area about openness and standards - it is where my core open  
>> space facilitation work is - with communities developing an open  
>> layer of the web that is social and community driven.
>>
>> I hope that I can work with others in the community who want to  
>> make the most open choices possible and a collaborative on a  
>> future looking online/tech strategy for the community.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Kaliya
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Lisa Heft  
>> <lisaheft at openingspace.net> wrote:
>> Artur Silva (Portugal), Shufang Tsai (Taiwan) and Lisa Heft (USA)
>> welcome you to join us at the:
>>
>> Open Space World Community Ning site
>> A gathering place for sharing, learning, resources and community.
>>
>> -- create and host or join a regional group in your own language
>> -- see the photos of members - including your wonderful OSLIST  
>> colleagues
>> -- post links to photos, videos, tweets or blogs
>> -- create calendar listings for your events
>> -- post and share resources
>> -- create or join a theme-based group about whatever you would like!
>> -- engage in live chat.
>>
>> This co-created Ning web portal for all things Open Space is a  
>> compliment to the rich and welcoming dialogue of OSLIST and all  
>> our web-based resources such as openspaceworld.org
>> It is free.
>> Come and co-create.
>> The seedling has sprouted - let us grow this lovely learning tree.
>> Jump right on - sign in - create your own page and begin.
>>
>>
>> (It is new...in its Beta stage...we are still trying out design  
>> and functions...come visit us there, enjoy using it, share any  
>> ideas for improvement you may recommend...there is even a 'Caring  
>> for this Online Community' Group you can join...and if anything  
>> does not work smoothly we will all learn and share how to fix it...)
>>
>>
>> Do join us in this nutritious and diverse community meeting place.
>>
>> http://openspaceworld.ning.com
>>
>>
>> We will continue our rich and vibrant dialogues here on OSLIST,  
>> and we will see you also in the Open Space World Community Ning  
>> site...
>>
>> Artur, Shufang and Lisa
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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