[OSList] What is the sweet spot for Online OS using video chat?

[paul levy via OSList]

Lucas

I wrote this a year ago but keep coming back to it. I go with the view that
there is something else in the digital realm we've yet to invent. As things
stand I feel concerned about what we are doing "online" especially in our
attempts to transpose physical to digital via metaphors borrowed from the
physical ...

"After I nearly died my whole life flashed in front of me and then the
image settled into an enormous tableau, like a tapestry I could step
through.

"Time became space and every moment of my life was there in crystal clarity
- from my birth to my final moments, spread out in all directions around
me.

"Yet somehow I could also behold it all at the same time, in the same
place. It was then I noticed the holes - frightening spaces in the picture,
empty even of shadow. Utter nothingness.

"I knew in that moment our tapestries are meant to be entire, to be
complete. These were the holes when I was not present in my own waking
life. These were little voids claimed by other influences on my attention.
Some of the tears and holes in my life picture were tiny, some were huge.
Yet I knew I needed the whole picture to move on properly.

Then I realised it: These were the holes when I was texting, letting the
infinite quality of my life be remade into ones and zeros that were never
truly born of my being, the gestures I made, without actually caring or
being there in my heart and mind. And these were spaces I could never
easily fill again.

"The picture unraveled like a tsunami then fractured. Voiceless I screamed,
and awoke, sweating in my bed."

Paul

On Sunday, 28 August 2016, Lucas Cioffi via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> I would be super-excited to hear how folks would design the simplest
> online Open Space experience using video chat.
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> I posted my thoughts below, but I put them further down so that you might
> have a moment to think about what online OS experience would work best for
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> 1. When the event begins you open up a webpage.  You can see the following:
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>    - where the opening circle is
>    - how many virtual breakout spaces there are
>    - who is in each virtual space right now
>    - what is being discussed now and in the future (a bulletin board /
>    marketplace / idea wall)
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> 2. Next you choose to enter a space by turning on your video chat.
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> *Note: The following features seem helpful but not necessary:*
> 3. When you arrive in a space, you see a shared notes area available to
> all participants.
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> 4. There is a way to raise your hand to indicate that you'd like to speak.
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> 5. There is a way to share a quick message such as ("I have to step away
> for a moment").
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> *Thanks so much for any advice.  I look forward to hearing what you have
> in mind!*
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> Lucas Cioffi
> Founder, QiqoChat
> Charlottesville, VA
> Mobile: 917-528-1831
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