[OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 92, Issue 5

Bhavesh Patel bhavmail at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 21:56:22 PST 2018


" I can think of all sorts of reason why they do as badly as they do "

Please share the reasons Harrison. They want to be less bad, and don't
worry about the fixes, we'll open space for them to emerge... or not...



On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 01:15, Harrison Owen via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Chris – there are actually two translations of The User’s Guide in Chinese
> (Mainland and Taiwan) and I am sure a number of websites, all of which are
> in Chinese. I notice you copied Mrs. Song. She should be helpful. As for
> Wikipedia, we’ve tried for years and nothing seems to stick. When it
> (Wikipedia) first appeared, I was invited to contribute… and I did. But the
> comment was made that I was hardly without self interest. So others made
> the attempt – Michael Herman for one, I think. I can think of all sorts of
> reason why they do as badly as they do – but none lend themselves to any
> sort of fix that I can imagine. So I just forget about it. As I said before
> – No bother. ho
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> *From:* OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf
> Of *christopher macrae via OSList
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 5, 2018 11:49 AM
> *To:* Chris Corrigan; World wide Open Space Technology email list
> *Cc:* christopher macrae; 宋汝琳Song; Kaarel Vaidla
> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 92, Issue 5
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> *dear chris and friends - the current wikipedia starts open space like
> this*
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> *Open Space Technology* (*OST*) is a method for organizing and running a
> meeting or multi-day conference, where participants have been invited in
> order to focus on a specific, important task or purpose. OST is a
> participant-driven process whose agenda is created by people attending. At
> the end of each OST meeting, a document is created summarizing the work of
> the group. The OST method is based upon work, beginning in the 1980s, by
> Owen Harrison. It was one of the top ten organization development
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_development> tools cited
> between 2004 and 2013.Open Space Technology
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology#cite_note-OD-1>
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> *what imo is wrong- on a quick read that millennials do*
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> *the last sentence makes it sound as if open space is past  -"it was: ...*
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> *today pretty much every western city with youth in it has hubs that think
> they do hackathons and open spaces but they have diluted (and have sponsors
> vested interests)-*
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> *the average hub practice has lost what i feel makes open space system
> transforming -often the resident hosts don't even know how much has been
> lost*
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> *I dont have the talents to be a great open space facilitator but ever
> since first meeting harrison i have felt that the only way to save schools
> from the livelihood destruction nightmare they have become in the west is
> to free pre-adolescents with experience of real open space -once a child
> has co-created in open space they can take that with them - the empowerment
> that they can co-create, be community builders etc*
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> *I suppose whats on wikipedia is a lost game- what i would like is the
> ultimate bookmark to carry on trying to get schools to free kids to host
> open space*
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> *for reasons that may be peculiar to me my test of a perfect bookmark is
> can i get chinese friends to understand it - fortunately harrison's open
> space method is very well respected in china- ironically what we now need
> is the chinese to translate open space practice (catalogue living examples
> they scale across a fifth of the world's people) back into english ! -sorry
> just my naughty cents worth from a washington dc that is pretty scarily
> closed in 99% of policy meetings as well as schooling *
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> chris.macrae at yahoo.co.uk www.valuetrue.com www.womenuni.com
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> *From:* Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan at gmail.com>
> *To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
> *Cc:* Kaarel Vaidla <kvaidla at wikimedia.org>; Bhavesh Patel <
> bhavmail at gmail.com>; chris.macrae at yahoo.co.uk
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 11:17
> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 92, Issue 5
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> I’m not clear on exactly what is wrong with the Wikipedia article. It
> seems fine to me, such as it is. But I realize I’m not seeing what others
> are seeing.
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> Part of editing well is to identify specifics that need to be changed and
> pointing to good sources that support the change.
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> Are there particular thing s that stand out for you?
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> Chris.
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