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

[Harold Shinsato]

Michael,

Thanks so much for the background and for all the work you've done in 
the past in support of OST. The openspaceworld.org site was helpful when 
I was first getting into OST trying to figure out how to learn it, how 
to use it, and more.

I just did a google search in the U.S. for "Open Space", and 
openspaceworld.org is #1. I did a search for "Open Space Technology" and 
again, openspaceworld.org is #1. Maybe this changes daily!

I'm excited to hear that you've been open to the ideas to start shifting 
the site towards more open standards, and ways that things can be 
improved. It's easy to find places things could be better - and I could 
rattle of bunches very easily - but it's critical to also appreciate 
what we have and how far it's taken us.

I hope that Kaliya's communication style can be listened to with 
"Giraffe Ears" (an idea from Non-Violent Communication), and that 
everyone's mistakes can be let go as we move forward in this. I'm very 
excited about all the possibilities that can unfold with this heightened 
engagement. This Open Space philosophy seems to be getting more relevant 
to me each day, and not just in the OSList and other places we inhabit.

    Harold

P.S. I need to thank Kaliya here too. My attraction to Open Space was 
through the idea of BarCamp - and Kaliya helped show me that Open Space 
was the way to go - and she introduced me to the wonderful Lisa Heft who 
gave me a mini sesssion on OST at the Internet Identity Workshop in 
Mountain View, CA that Kaliya was facilitating - which then led me to 
eventually take one of Lisa's most excellent trainings in Open Space 
facilitation. And I wouldn't have been at the IIW if Kaliya hadn't been 
at JavaOne facilitating an open space there.

P.P.S. I'm not sure how helpful this is, but the OpenSocial internet 
standard is something that's helping all these social networking sites 
be interoperable - and NING supports OpenSocial. I know NING isn't 
perfect, but it's better than some.

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