[OSList] help w/ new global calendar for trainings, osonos events and other learning gatherings?

Fri Oct 2 14:30:59 PDT 2015

i've been in conversation with a number of folks, daniel.  as i say, they
came to me.  when i saw that harold was also doing something about a
calendar, i invited him to join us.  i've since invited some others to this
group when i realized they were missing.  then i thought there might be
others i hadn't thought of or didn't know about, so i posted to the list to
see who else might want to post trainings to the calendar.  and of course,
here you are, the first person i forgot to add.

yes, there is a bit of authorization involved.  imposed by google.  it's a
one-time hurdle, per person.  it's not perfect, but it's very good.  and
very worth trying.  if enough people agree to post their items there, then
it will work.  if nobody likes it and doesn't add anything, it'll go away.
 having managed an OS training calendar in many manual ways for 15 years, i
really do hope it works.  i hope people will try it out.

as for adding people to admin status, i do believe it's technically
possible.  the challenge is that anyone with full authorization might also
have the authorization to turn off all the other administrators.  it's one
thing to have permission to deputize yourself and quite another to have the
power to shut everyone else out.  so the admin line needs to be drawn
somewhere.  for now it's drawn with me as an admin and everyone else as
contributors.  once we prove that it works, and see who is caring and
contributing about it, we can all talk more about the admin permissions.
 first things first, i think.

m

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http://OpenSpaceWorld.org

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> It's good you are talking with Harold about the OSI-US website work. I
> missed that detail in your post.
>
> To be clear, folks can add to this calendar only after they ask you for
> authorization. Right? Am I understanding this correctly?
>
> I wonder if the Google-calendar functionality allows multiple users to
> also have Admin-authority, for example: to approve other folks to make
> edits, to approve other users to also have Admin-authority, etc.
>
> Daniel
>
> On 10/2/15 1:40 PM, Michael Herman wrote:
>
> Harold is already part of the conversation, Daniel. And the whole point of
> this particular calendar is that many people can add to it AND it can be
> embedded in any website, osius, osw, and any others and look exactly the
> same everywhere.
>
>
>
> On Friday, October 2, 2015, Daniel Mezick via OSList <
> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>>
>> I like the idea of an Open Space calendar. Good idea!
>>
>> I wonder if the Open Space Institute USA web site (
>> <http://www.osius.org>http://www.osius.org) is the most appropriate and
>> perhaps the best place for this kind of thing.
>>
>> As you point out, Harold Shinsato continues to work very, very hard on
>> the overall OSI-US site, all in service to the Open Space community.
>>
>> Here we can see how his hard work helps OSI-US publicize Open Space
>> training, not just in the USA but around the world, via the OSI-US web
>> site, for anyone seeking OST training worldwide:
>>
>> http://www.osius.org/trainings
>>
>> I wonder if you might be willing to contact Harold, discuss how you might
>> be able to help him and others to compile the list, add your excellent
>> calendar-idea into the existing OSI-US training-page, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>> www.OpenSpaceAgility.com/About
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/2/15 10:41 AM, Michael Herman via OSList wrote:
>>
>> hi all,
>>
>> when i rebuilt openspaceworld.org earlier this year, i let go of the
>> training calendar mechanism that wasn't really working.  mostly it was a
>> little too much work to manage, for me and everyone else.  then some folks
>> showed up and said, "hey, we still want/need something!" we talked about
>> that group organizing a little calendar team and producing something that
>> could be embedded in various websites.
>>
>> in light of our osonos conversations, and also really liking what harold
>> has posted at osi-us website about all the different places (not just
>> "trainings") where OS practitioner learning takes place, i created a public
>> google calendar for posting trainings, but also osonos events and
>> stammisches(sp?) and any other sort of learning events you might want to
>> share globally.
>>
>> IF you'd know of such events and are willing to help populate this new
>> calendar, please email me directly at michael at michaelherman.com.  i'll
>> tell google that you're allowed to post and tell you how to do it.  you can
>> post one or more events you know about.  when we get some stuff posted,
>> we'll make the calendar public for reference, with open invitation to
>> others to add next events.
>>
>> many thanks!
>>
>> michael
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Michael Herman
>> Michael Herman Associates
>> http://MichaelHerman.com
>> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
>>
>>
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> Michael Herman
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> http://MichaelHerman.com
> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
>
>
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> Daniel Mezick, President
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> New Technology Solutions Inc.
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> (203) 915 7248 (cell)
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