[OSList] Inviting non-invitation

Mon Aug 31 14:38:43 PDT 2015

Actually, Dan/Lucas - I think it is a lot weirder than that... All them
Dictators are trying to "force the system." Seems to work for a bit, but
that is definitely illusory. Eventually it all blows up in their face. Good
Old SO (self organization) has been around a lot longer than the current
"ruler of the world," and will be around long after they are back to cosmic
dust. Remember that character named "Julius?" Or was it Napoleon, Attila, or
Adolph?

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Daniel Mezick via OSList
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Subject: [OSList] Inviting non-invitation

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

Great question Lucas!

The [invitation] wall-poster you suggest feels wall-worthy to me, so long as
no one is obligated to examine it... or even look at it.

My turn to ask a question: What might a world "void of manipulation" and
"replete with invitation" actually look like?

Daniel

On 8/31/15 9:57 AM, Lucas Cioffi via OSList wrote:

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

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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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