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Hello Kevin,<br>
<br>
Welcome. Here's a link to an interesting article about the internet and
one of it's original thinkers that may help you to connect Open Space
and Cyber Space:<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><a
href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly.html">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly.html</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">It's about "the guru of the participation
age." Here's a little excerpt:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">"I
just love that," O'Reilly said, his ever-present sheepish grin taking
on a late-afternoon wistfulness. "'Beneath every no lays a yes that had
never been broken.' To me, there's this wonderful spirit.… You know, I
believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make
life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that
work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every no
lays a yes that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that."</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">And
to think we were just talking about Internet protocols. O'Reilly's
theories about the next Internet seem on the mark. But the impromptu
poetry recital diverted my attention to O'Reilly himself. As it turns
out, the levers and pulleys of this new Net neatly reflect the
operating principles of the man who helped define it: a philosophy of
participation and sharing and a sense that collective action will
inevitably accrue to the greater good.<br>
<br>
<br>
After reading this article I did a little looking around the net and
found a great desire to find a way to interact in human time in a way
similar to interaction in cyber-time. There were some attempts and
threads talking about different ways of coming together for conferences
for example, but nothing quite like Open Space. I added a my comments
about Open Space but haven't been back to see if the seeds had done any
germinating.<br>
<br>
I believe Open Space works best with minimum structure and maximum
freedom to interact, move, follow your two feet and your passion (what
you love), and the internet works best within the same minimum
structure and maximum freedom, building community and indivuduality at
the same time.<br>
<br>
I believe we will begin to find more ways that there are links between
Open Space and Cyber Space. It will be very fun to watch!<br>
<br>
with grace and love,
<br>
<br>
Zelle
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Kevin Cameron wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid43A01946.4070902@kevincameron.net">>
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> Cameron,
<br>
<br>
It's "Kevin", by the way :) (Cameron is my last name, though I always
thought it was a cool first name too and wanted to be called Cameron
Cameron)
<br>
<br>
<br>
> The practice of Facilitation, as
<br>
> it has evolved, is often understood to be the collection of
various tools
<br>
> and techniques that are then "done" to, or for, people. And the
expert
<br>
> Facilitator is understood to be the person with the biggest tool
box.
<br>
<br>
Interesting that you mention that now as, at the very moment your email
arrived, I was watching a webcast about phone companies and the
Internet. (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20051128_111">http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20051128_111</a> ) anyway,
the lecturer was talking about stupid networks, about how they are end
to end, and nothing happens in the middle, and keeping things out of
the middle preserves the value. Basically,
<br>
<br>
"Don't crap up the middle of the network with assumption-driven
software such as security, content awareness, anti-malware-ware,
etc..."
<br>
<br>
In OS terms, I guess this would be
<br>
<br>
"Don't crap up the middle of the space with assumption-driven
facilitation tools such as XYZ....."
<br>
<br>
He also talked about how, in a stupid network, the amount of work put
in by the engineer (or facilitator) stays constant, while the value of
the network grows exponentially because it is created at the edges (the
participants).
<br>
<br>
I'm only half-way through the web-cast, but I expect to find some other
OS relevant analogies before I am through... maybe describing it in
terms of the Internet is some ammunition to help me promote it as an
effective tool at work!
<br>
<br>
Kevin
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