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The OST at the Detroit Journalism That Matters event last week (<a
href="http://jtmdetroit.org">http://jtmdetroit.org</a>) was truly
amazing, as was the January Seattle JTM event (<a
href="http://jtmpnw.com/">http://jtmpnw.com/</a>) I attended after
being invited by Anne Stadler at the Leadership in a Self-Organizing
World event (<a
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?SelfOrganizingWorld">http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?SelfOrganizingWorld</a>)
where Harrison Owen gave some great talks in the midst of an OST event.<br>
<br>
I'm a bit baffled right now - because I am reading about the Social
Forum <a href="http://www.ussf2010.org/">http://www.ussf2010.org/</a>
being held in Detroit Jun 22-26. I'm reading about it in Yes! magazine,
after purchasing it in my Missoula health food store. (Yes! magazine
showed up in spades at the Seattle JTM Open Space). The organizers of
this event - which is expecting 20,000+ attendees showed up at JTM
Detroit last week.<br>
<br>
Here is a quote about the event on page 11 of the latest Yes! magazine
in a commentary titled (in very Open Space terms) "A Personal
Invitation to the US Social Forum":<br>
<br>
"we come together in <b>open space</b> to share and learn best
practices for movement building, get inspired, connect across work and
distance, and see ourselves as part of a larger force. It's that open
horizontal structure, instead of the usual series of top-down
aspirational speakers, that allows the deeper relationships and
movement building to happen... USSF is a <b>self-organized</b>,
decentralized process..."<br>
<br>
I've looked at the program, and it doesn't look like a pure OST event
at all, but they mention "open spaces" quite a bit. If Open Space ideas
are being used in an event that is attracting 20,000 people - I'm
curious why we're not talking about it here. Does any one know more
about this event? Anyone going? What is the relevance to major big time
adoption of Open Space ideas in things like barcamps, USSF, etc.,
albeit impure, to the relevance of OST itself?<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Harold Shinsato<br>
<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a><br>
<a href="http://shinsato.com">http://shinsato.com</a><br>
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