[OSList] Respect in Self-Organizing Systems

Harrison Owen via OSList oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Mon Oct 20 16:04:28 PDT 2014


Sounds good to me. At least that is what we've always done. Thanks Harold!

 

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From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of
Harold Shinsato via OSList
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 4:49 PM
To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
Subject: Re: [OSList] Respect in Self-Organizing Systems

 

Daniel,

The primary task of the OSLIST group might best be pondered by looking at
the closest thing we have to a charter on the OpenSpaceWorld.org wiki:

http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?EmailDiscussionGroups

Here are the first words [clear action verb fragment emphasis is my own]...


The OSLIST worldwide email list ... is a list for Open Space practitioners
and friends from everywhere (really)... perhaps the most active and easiest
place to connect with the living Spirit of Open Space and the OS community.

[omitted administrivia links]

>From the very beginning (1985), Open Space Technology has been free and
freely available. But there is a cost -- that we freely share what we are
learning. The mechanisms of sharing are multiple including training
programs, public presentations, private emails and most especially in the
online community known as the OSLIST. 

The substance of what we share on the OSLIST is diverse: technical "How
to..." questions, philosophical meanderings, and deep feelings from the
heart. And in many ways, the deep feelings are the most important. It is
from those feelings that we learn who we are, what we are doing, and what
the true value of this work might be. If Open Space and the OSLIST were
simply a technical approach to better meetings, then we might avoid both the
philosophy and the feelings. We have discovered, however, that "OS as
meeting methodology" is but a tiny part of the reality. 

    Harold

 

On 10/20/14 8:40 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList wrote:


I often wonder what the primary task of the OSLIST group is.

 

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