[OSList] Fall Reflections

[Lucas Cioffi via OSList]

Hi All,

Is it accurate to say that some self organizing happens by invitation and
some happens by coercion/force?

For example, from the perspective of someone who lives outside of Iraq, the
way the Ba'ath Party took charge of Iraq through a coup seems like an
example of self-organizing by force to us, because we're outside the system
of Iraq.  I welcome some thoughts on this.

Over the past few months (and working with Michael Herman for VOSonOS) I've
seen that the spirit of invitation shouldn't end with the writing of the
invitation, and instead it should be present throughout the open space.
When someone posts a topic on the marketplace wall, they are inviting
others to a conversation, not taking over a time slot (like having a coup
and taking over a small country).

When someone wants to be a "dictator" of their open space session, yes
others can use their two feet and walk out, but that comes at a cost to the
social fabric of the organization.  A better outcome would be that the
would-be dictator holds a welcoming space from the start.  So I'd recommend
that another sign worth posting on the wall near "Law of Two Feet" would be
"Spirit of Invitation".  I think it's wall-worthy, do you?

Lucas Cioffi
Founder, QiqoChat.com <http://qiqochat.com/>
Charlottesville, VA
Mobile: 917-528-1831




On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Paul Levy via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> I think the clue lies in the wonderful word "self".
>
> We are the selves that organise.
>
> Beautiful.
>
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