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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="3" POINTSIZE="12" DEFAULT="SIZE">Thanks Michael H in Chicago for telling the tale.<BR>
To me its important to listen to that tale because I feel how it evokes Spirit in our community.<BR>
One thing about tales and story tellers is that the stories told are always true and never true, thats why they are stories and why I love them.<BR>
So, here is one detail, that is part of the story as I see it:<BR>
It was in Monterey, not in Toronto (which is also a wonderful place), at the OSonOS in 1998 (is that true ?), Harrison was tending to what he called the "Berlin Flue" (he had been to a training in Berlin where he drank a lot of beer), Birgitt and some others were struggling with bandits stealing os, Ralph removed some material people had put in the circle, I clashed with a colleague, well, it was high-spirited. <BR>
In all that we were thinking about global, international, planetary (either the Canadians or the Australians or others didnt like those terms as smacking of US-Imperialism or some other such -ism) for what we were perceiving as emerging. <BR>
As someone said "Why dont we call it world-wide" the discussion sort of subsided and as we were looking out over the Pacific Ocean just outside of our spacious meeting room a huge, bright double rainbow appeared.<BR>
Well, that did it and thats how it was decided to call the thing "world-wide".<BR>
Someone actually tried to get that something organized and registered as an NGO at the United Nations...hey, what ever became of that initiative?<BR>
Greetings from Berlin a week before the berlin open space on open space for which 51 colleagues have signed up...seems this is one of those centres in the worldwideopenspace-community...<BR>
mmp<BR>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 02:55:11 -0500, Michael Herman wrote:<BR>
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>Birgitt Williams wrote:<BR>
><BR>
>>thank you for assisting me in my edits on <FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>www.openspaceworld.com<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U> Your<BR>
>>generosity with that site and with your time is a wonderful gift and I thank<BR>
>>you. I spent several hours today going over the materials, imagining what<BR>
>>could be added, and also thinking that it would be so good if all content<BR>
>>rich conversations on this list were on that site in the way that you have<BR>
>>pulled a few tidbits from the list. In some ways, active participation on<BR>
>>that site could replace this OS List and the wisdom shared would be easily<BR>
>>accessible to all newcomers to OST.<BR>
>><BR>
>>I was excited to see a spot for "research" and there is a good beginning<BR>
>>there but I know there are so many more papers that have been done. We truly<BR>
>>have had a lack of a space to pull the research together and I very much<BR>
>>hope that you all will go into your files and contribute any and all bits of<BR>
>>research about OST and its uses.<BR>
>><BR>
>><BR>
>> And, whenever Michael gives the go ahead to add to these read only<BR>
>> pages that are like his "givens", I will offer my viewpoint on that<BR>
>> site, which as you know is often an alternative.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>----<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>Well, well, well... hello again, Birgitt and everyone... all this<BR>
>website talk is happening a bit faster than expected and not exactly<BR>
>according to the plan <grin> as ever, be prepared to be surprised!<BR>
><BR>
>so it seems from this and other messages of late, that there is some<BR>
>real energy wanting to rush into the websites. yes, websites, as in<BR>
>more than one. taking a page from Michael Pannwitz, i'd like to take<BR>
>three minutes just before this opening, in sponsor-sort of role here, to<BR>
>share a bit of the story of how we have got to this opening moment. i<BR>
>hope my invitation/opening colleagues will forgive a bit of rambling<BR>
>here before we launch the invitation proper. let's have a look around<BR>
>the circle...<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>IN THE BEGINNING<BR>
><BR>
>...there was the web... and then the open space institute usa. and then<BR>
>they came together as the OSI-USA website, thanks in large part to the<BR>
>work of Peggy Holman and some others whose names i am sorry to be<BR>
>missing just now.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>GOING GLOBAL<BR>
><BR>
>then Barry Owen got to thinking there should be a Global Open Space<BR>
>Institute and he created a massive website with much content and support<BR>
>from you, Birgitt.<BR>
><BR>
>at OSONOS 5 in toronto, a number of us concluded that we wanted to be<BR>
>about the World rather than about the Globe. shortly thereafter, I<BR>
>created OpenSpaceWorld.ORG with good company from Barry and Peggy.<BR>
>early in it's life, osw.ORG incorporated the UBB software discovered by<BR>
>Koos de Heer, who helped maintain it along the way and continues to lurk<BR>
>and tidy little things. fully present and totally invisible!<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>ALONG THE WAY...<BR>
><BR>
>Joelle Everett, Brian Bainbridge and Sharon Quarrington have created OSI<BR>
>newsletters and shared the content of those on the webstie.<BR>
><BR>
>as for research, i should note that Leon DeKing first raised that<BR>
>question (to the best of my recollection) at OSONOS in toronto. there<BR>
>has been a research section of the website ever since osw.ORG was<BR>
>created and still, as you note, only a few of the many papers that must<BR>
>exist have been noted there. it would be nice to have more of them<BR>
>listed on the current version of the research page.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>SPEAKING IN TONGUES<BR>
><BR>
>then there are the languages. i can't begin to list all of those who<BR>
>have translated materials since Artur deSilva started his campaign after<BR>
>OSONOS in Berlin. Artur had something to do with Portuguese and at<BR>
>least one other language. Diane Gibeault did a number of French pieces,<BR>
>i know. Tova did Hebrew. Gerard Muller did Danish and Dutch. Michael<BR>
>Pannwitz did the German. John Engle the Haitian Creole. i think Laura<BR>
>Herrera did the Spanish. and my apologies to those i've left out, who<BR>
>are several.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>GETTING WIKI<BR>
><BR>
>late last year, i began migrating the best of what was gathered in the<BR>
>bulletin board space into the new wiki space. Chris Corrigan provided<BR>
>invaluable help with that, just as i was totally running out of steam.<BR>
> Peggy and some others have helped out too, as have a number of others<BR>
>around the world who have posted their own contact info, soundbites,<BR>
>websites, etc. Chris and Gabriela Ender and some others had a good go<BR>
>of OSONOS online this past year, too.<BR>
><BR>
>the OSI Board, which currently includes Peggy, Leon, myself, Lisa Heft,<BR>
>John Engle, Gabriel Shirley, and David Koehler has been actively<BR>
>discussing the shape and future of the osw.ORG website for the last<BR>
>several months. we have considered readability, formatting, content,<BR>
>access and a number of other issues. i joined the board only this year,<BR>
>specifically to access their insights and energies for the sites, and<BR>
>the support i've received has been just great. thanks board!<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>THE OPEN SPACE WORLD .NETwork!<BR>
><BR>
>finally, i should mention that somewhere along the way, Harrison created<BR>
>(in his usual mix of infinite wisdom and accidental genius) a site<BR>
>called OpenSpaceWorld.COM... even as his books continue to refer people<BR>
>to our .ORG site. what he did by accidently selecting the .COM version<BR>
>of the .ORG site we'd already established... was to set up the obvious<BR>
>next step to <drumroll> .NET!<BR>
><BR>
>for those of you familiar with the game Parker Brothers game called<BR>
>"Monopoly!" you will notice that we now own ALL the OpenSpaceWorld<BR>
>properties and are now allowed to start building houses and hotels!<BR>
><grin> but i digress...<BR>
><BR>
>we registered the .NET name a few months ago and part of what the OSI<BR>
>board has been considering and what i have been spending time building<BR>
>out the most basic frames for is this new .NET space. it was only in<BR>
>the last few days that we have finalized our work on the invitation to<BR>
>that online open space. this is the invitation i referred to earlier today.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>HOW WE GO FROM HERE<BR>
><BR>
>first we will launch that invite. we will welcome the passion and<BR>
>responsibility of all those who are willing to help us give shape and<BR>
>life to this new space. we will do this work online, in that space, and<BR>
>in the process we will build the skills and connections needed to<BR>
>maintain that space. and then, this online space holding community can<BR>
>apply its wiki wisdom and open space sensitivity to the care and feeding<BR>
>of the .ORG site.<BR>
><BR>
>having spent the time to get the .NET space up and running, i am glad to<BR>
>see more and more interest and energy for our working together online.<BR>
> the forthcoming invitation will say much more specifically what and how<BR>
>and why about this new space. and the momentum and connections and<BR>
>learnings we make in the development of that site will be tremendously<BR>
>important as we then address what the .ORG site should be and become.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>KEEPING ON AND STAYING TUNED<BR>
><BR>
>of course, we can continue to post all kinds of contact information,<BR>
>stories, quotes, research, links and the rest into the .ORG site (as<BR>
>it's currently configured) while the .NET site is taking shape, but the<BR>
>larger structural and philosophy questions will not really be answerable<BR>
>until we figure out what the .NET space is all about.<BR>
><BR>
>so, stay tuned to the list here for the invitation to .NET... we've just<BR>
>got to give the room one more scan to make sure that we haven't<BR>
>forgotten the tape or the markers or any of our favorite posters... the<BR>
>OpenSpaceWorld.NETwork is about to get born!<BR>
><BR>
>thanks to everyone who's been a part of the last many years of<BR>
>developing .ORG, i know and regret that there are people i've missed<BR>
>naming here. even so, i hope you will join us in the development and<BR>
>use of the new .NET space... please stay tuned...<BR>
><BR>
>'til soon, michael<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
>--<BR>
><BR>
>Michael Herman<BR>
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