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hello birgitt, and thank you for your last message. and hello judi! ...to
clarify... i did not mean to imply "separate from the community." you are
right, i think. that's just not possible. it is possible, however, to be
un-involved in what is happening in the websites.<br>
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if you don't visit the sites, you are largely un-involved in the sites. once
you do visit, however, you are fully involved. there is no formal joining.
there is no password required. there are no security checkpoints. there
is no web development skill required. there is only passion and responsibility.
they are simple pages that any (english reader) can view. what's more,
any viewer can click the 'edit' link at the bottom of almost every page and
add/edit the text of those pages. no coding required. just simple english
and the ability to click the 'edit' link and the 'save' button when finished.
it's really quite a marvel. once you are there, you CAN contribute. once
there, you are deciding about contributing on every page you view. you can
choose as consciously or unconsciously as you like. you can set lots of
limits on your contribution or can jump in with reckless abandon. once there
you have many choices, in a law of two clicks sort of way. you ARE in!<br>
<br>
<b>at the ORG site...</b> which TELLS stories ABOUT open space... anyone
can read. anyone can refer others. anyone can click the 'edit' link at
the bottom of any page and add a bit of text. That text might be correcting
a misspelling, cleaning up the formatting AND/OR adding a story soundbite,
an ost explanation soundbite, their own contact info, their own notes and
toolbox resources, etc. There are only a handful of pages there that are
not yet totally open for editing. These pages hold the rest of the place
together, preserve an easy-to-navigate structure, and require a higher level
of familiarity with that structure to edit them effectively. as the number
of people with that higher level of famaliarity and understanding increases,
these core pages can be opened to more editing.<br>
<br>
<b>at the NET site...</b> which is intended to SHOW how we work in open space,
by archiving our actions... anyone can use the space to support their own
local group's work in openspace. anyone can post their public/community
proceedings. anyone can invite their participants to post proceedings. anyone
can allow community groups to make their own ongoing openspace websites WITHIN
the osw.net space. anyone can invite their participants to manage ongoing
action plans and the crafting of new ost invitations right there in this
space. and as some of us venture to contribute in this way, all of us can
watch and learn and in some cases perhaps collaborate. i think this is really
quite revolutionary.<br>
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at the NET site, it is also possible that we can convene our own ost-community
projects there. i think this is where the OSONOS proceedings will be posted
this year. last year's were posted at the ORG wiki site. some simultaneous
and followup conversatoins were posted there, as well. but we need not have
a whole conference to make a community project anymore. all it takes is
an OSLIST invitation announcement and the starting of a project page at the
NET site. <br>
<br>
the NetSpaceDevelopment topic is one such community project that i have started
there. it is both a demonstration and an active invitation to others to
join directly in the planning and development of the sites themselves. this
project is my invitation to anyone who wants to deal with the deeper structure
and larger holding of space that is showing up in the OSW sites. <br>
<br>
Artur has already used this space as a springboard to make an Iberian languages
wiki, separate from the others. John Engle is doing a separate HaitianCreole
wiki. Both are posting technical and other questions in the NET site, where
they can be answered and also recorded for those who will later make French
and German and Swedish and who knows what other ost wiki websites. <br>
<br>
the websites have never been separate from the community and non-involvement
in them certainly does not separate anyone from the largest community of
ost friends and leaders and practitioners. the websites ARE, however, moving
closer to the whole community, now rivalling the openness (but not the life
and function of) the OSLIST. what we are wanting everyone to see clearly
here is that this new websites openness is possible, is invited, AND is still
voluntary. it is important to notice that non-attendance in the sites work
is very different from non-democracy. <br>
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the sites are being shaped by those who show up in them. only those who
show up are really able to understand how the sites work. by showing up,
they learn how to implement their suggestions directly, for themselves. they
also learn to understand and appreciate the history and existing structures
that hold the sites together. this understanding and appreciating, technical
skill and personal responsibility, is absolutely essential as our community
and websites continue to unfold.<br>
<br>
these questions are all great. they have helped with the introduction of
the new sites. they are also a LOT of work to answer and CAN be a valuable
demonstration of how we work -- by passion bounded by responsibility. the
invitation is to a higher level of responsibility. to the extent that some
of us are ready, willing and able to post these questions inside of the NetSpaceDevelopment
pages in at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openspaceworld.net">http://www.openspaceworld.net</a>, (to the extent that we are non-separate
from the sites) then we can ask and answer and use these questions to demonstrate
ever more clearly our practice, our process and our principles. besides,
i'm tired of having so much responsibility for the growing and maintaining
of the sites! the more people who will come play, the less work i'll have
to do to keep them clean and clear and inviting.<br>
<br>
so jump in if you like! jump in if you can! the power of what now can happen
is easier to SEE in the sites than it is to EXPLAIN on the list. it is possible
to make it happen (directly) in the sites, and quite impossible to make it
happen as long as the development conversation stays separated out on the
list. EVERYBODY is welcome.<br>
<br>
please join us! <br>
<br>
michael<br>
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Judi Richardson wrote:<br>
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cite="mid200308031428.h73ESp819477@listserv.boisestate.edu">
<pre wrap="">Hello Michael, Birgitt and all,
I have been reading this topic with great interest. And part of what I read
here stayed with me for a bit and I felt I wanted to respond. Michael, if I
read this correctly, below you suggest that someone who has chosen not to
join the wiki sites has made a choice to be separate. That is the part that
sat with me the most.
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Michael wrote:<br>
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I am glad to have this conversation continue, but I have asked that it
continue as part of the work of the <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openspaceworld.NET">http://www.openspaceworld.NET</a>
website. If it were part of that site, our writing would necessarily be
shaping that site. It would be part of that record. It would be a
demonstration of how to clarify givens, if that is what we are doing. As
you choose to have it here, you necessarily separate yourself from that
work. Not my choice, but yours, to be separate. To be separate is okay.
To be vocal is okay. To be separate and vocal does nothing to support
the sites, which is what I'm most interested in now.
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