[OSList] What would a harvest from a long OSList discussion look like?

[Chris Corrigan]

You can still find that incredible document hosted at Micheal’s site:

http://www.michaelherman.com/publications/ost_nonguide.pdf

Chris

On Aug 8, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Lucas – Don’t know where this fits, but several years ago Michael Herman and Chris Corrigan put together what they called a Non-User’s Guide which is essentially an annotated collection of a particularly rich set of discussions here on OSLIST. I haven’t checked, but I think it is still available on www.openspaceworld.org May turn out that human minds/fingers are still an essential part of the process no matter the technology. My thought would be Graduate Students. Good labor at a reasonable price with a possible dissertation or two.
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> From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Lucas Cioffi
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 2:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OSList] What would a harvest from a long OSList discussion look like?
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> Hi All,
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> Someone reached out and suggested I try a word cloud of the conversation.  I took a few minutes to copy the 50 emails from the conversation entitled "Management and Organization" which has been running for the past month. I pasted it below, and if the word cloud doesn't come through as an attachment, you can also see it online here.
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> Word clouds are helpful, but I'm still left wanting more.  I can't put my finger on it.
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> I'm thinking that there must be some very creative harvesting methods used by facilitators in this group, using graphic facilitation and other methods.  Are your approaches to in-person harvesting applicable to harvesting one of our 50-email discussions?
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> I'm listening to see if I can create a software for harvesting & summarizing email threads to unlock some of the knowledge buried in the OSList archives and breath new life into some of our dormant yet valuable discussion threads from the past.
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> Lucas Cioffi
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> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Lucas Cioffi <lucas at barkbest.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> So this week many of us are watching a lively discussion thread grow and grow and grow.  It's awesome that it has received nearly 50 email replies already from people all over the world, however 95% of the people on the list aren't active in it yet, and of course that's OK.
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> For me and probably others, digging into such a large conversation becomes a bit intimidating when the conversation is so large.  
> Question: So, what would a harvest from such a long OSList email discussion look like if it was to be useful to you personally?
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> I'm asking the question above for two reasons:
> For me: Aside from being a longtime OS enthusiast, I'm building a tool for large online conversations and looking for ideas about how to create meaningful harvests from them.
> For all of us: Unrelated to my tool, maybe if there was an easy way to harvest/summarize these long and lively conversations on OSList, then it could give access to the conversation to those who do not have the time or courage to dive in directly.
> New voices: The younger generations spend less time on email, so they largely miss out on the great knowledge that's shared on a list like this.  So harvests might be one way to bring new voices to our conversations on OSList.
> To get the most value out of a conversation, someone certainly has to ride along and read most of it.  But the problem is that when someone chooses to read one conversation in-depth, they are choosing to not read another great conversation in-depth.  So I'm hoping that a harvest can help people when they decide which conversations they want to invest their time in.
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> I look forward to hearing any suggestions!
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> Lucas Cioffi
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