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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And Thank you Artur! Maybe now we can begin to see that Open Space is not at process, method, procedure – although it is certainly all of that. But fundamentally it is a reality we live. When the space is open and The Questions are multiple, deep and profound – creativity, innovation and new learnings abound. OST simply gives us a way of “fast tracking” all of that. Intentionally. Open Space – wherever, however, with whomsoever, about whatever, whenever. Go for it!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>ho <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 04843<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.openspaceworld.com%20"><span style='color:blue'>www.openspaceworld.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com%20"><span style='color:blue'>www.ho-image.com</span></a> (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Arturo Uscategui-Colaboremos<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 02, 2013 6:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] Yes dear Harrison !<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Yes, yes, yes and yes ! No matter if we live or not to tell the tale. We are fortunate to live it, to build it, to create it, you, we. And what a wonderful day is today with more and more open spaces towards increased openness, pushing forward the questions. Dear Harrison, thank you to be there where you are. </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:black'>Collaboratively,</span></b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:black'>Arturo Uscátegui Restrepo<br><a href="x-msg://23/">www.colaboremos.com</a></span></b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>+33 6 52 14 29 09<br>Skype: auscateguir</span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/iCOLABOREMOS" target="_blank">@icolaboremos</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Facebook Profile : arturo.colaboremos<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Facebook Page : colaboremos<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sep 2, 2013, at 10:05 PM, <a href="mailto:oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Send OSList mailing list submissions to<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span><a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span><a href="mailto:oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span><a href="mailto:oslist-owner@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-owner@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of OSList digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. A Time for Questions (Harrison Owen)<br> 2. Re: A Time for Questions (David Osborne)<br> 3. Re: A Time for Questions (Suzanne Daigle)<br> 4. Re: A Time for Questions...about Liminality,<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>Ronin &<br> Stigmergy (Daniel Mezick)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 18:59:03 -0400<br>From: "Harrison Owen" <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>><br>To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br>Subject: [OSList] A Time for Questions<br>Message-ID: <000001cea766$daf90a20$90eb1e60$@net><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>David Osborne's statement and Chris's question precipitated something in my<br>head. Needless to say David can and should speak for himself. However from<br>my relatively isolated corner of the universe (Maine) I have noticed a few<br>interesting suggestions that something of a shift might be in the wind.<br>Whether it will be sufficient to save Homo sapiens from ossification, only<br>time will tell.<br><br>One such suggestion in the increase of questioning. As a child of the 50's<br>(and yes there really were human beings walking the earth in that primal<br>time), my world was firmly described by answers. Everybody knew precisely<br>how life should be lived. There were rules to be followed, and if followed<br>success was assured. Of course there were deviants who were largely<br>marginalized and suppressed, but WE knew the Answers... the right way.<br><br>And then a funny thing called the '60s blew all that certainty away. It was<br>at once terrifying, refreshing, and exhilarating. And one thing was for<br>sure: The primacy of answers gave way to an avalanche of questions. It is in<br>the nature of questions to open space. Answers close it. <br><br>With all the fresh air of openness, the forces of creativity soared to the<br>joy and terror of all involved. Space in all dimensions exploded, and the<br>tight societies of Philadelphia and New York, in which I grew up, shattered<br>to merge with insular rural communities, and make contact with strange<br>creatures on The Other Coast. Strange new world!<br><br>The 70's and early 80's possessed a rich nutrient openness. New stories, and<br>the answers they purported to provide, popped up like mushrooms. Some were<br>weird, some substantive, some technological and all of them creating as many<br>new questions as the answers they supposedly offered. Thrilling!<br><br>But as the 80's ended and the 90's arrived it seemed that the age of answers<br>were settling more than a few of the questions. Author's could write<br>knowingly about "New Rules"... and while there was a breath of novelty it<br>seemed the rules (answers) were known.<br><br>The 90's slid by with almost dream like certainty. At least that's how it<br>seemed to me. The Markets were up, America ruled. Some were even suggesting<br>that the Age of Aquarius had actually begun! I guess there were still some<br>questions, but none that we couldn't handle with the right Process or<br>Procedure. And if not today, then tomorrow. So ended the Millennium.<br><br>The New Millennium rolled in as predicted. Surprise! But in a funny way it<br>seemed pretty anti-climactic. To be sure there were lots of parties,<br>fireworks, speeches, the usual turn of the Millennia Fantasies. But at the<br>end of the day it was pretty much more of the same... Until a bright clear<br>day in September. September 11th to be exact. Maybe this was just a turning<br>point for those of us in the USA. But I do believe, as I listen to my<br>friends and colleagues from around the world -- we were all there. Doubtless<br>with different feelings and interpretations. But for better, for worse, for<br>richer, for poorer... it was a very different world!<br><br>How different, we are only just beginning to understand. And for the first<br>time in some long time -- the Questions vastly outnumber the available<br>answers. This is a Turning Point. And a wonderful one, I do believe. When we<br>as a species are compelled to sit in that really uncomfortable and juicy<br>moment created by truly profound questions, the Space is truly OPENED. I<br>think that is where we are at, and best of all I see lots of new faces<br>rising to the bait. Call them "Millennials" or whatever... but it is every<br>bit as exciting as the "60's" and we may or may not survive to tell the<br>tale. But that has always been true.<br><br>Harrison<br><br><br>Harrison Owen<br>7808 River Falls Dr.<br>Potomac, MD 20854<br>USA<br><br>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<br>Camden, Maine 04843<br><br>Phone 301-365-2093<br>(summer) 207-763-3261<br><br><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a> <br><a href="http://www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a> (Personal Website)<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST<br>Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>[<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] On Behalf Of Chris Kloth<br>Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:15 PM<br>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list; David Osborne<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Federal Reserve Employees Survey<br><br>David,<br><br>I wonder if you could share a little more about what is going on already. I<br>have had conversations with Fed officials in San Francisco and Cleveland<br>and, while they are doing some things I am very interested in and impressed<br>by, I have yet to see evidence of OST.<br><br>--<br>Shalom,<br><br>Chris Kloth<br>ChangeWorks of the Heartland<br>254 South Merkle Road<br>Bexley, OH 43209-1801<br>ph 614-239-1336<br>fax 614-237-2347<br><a href="http://www.got2change.com">www.got2change.com</a><br><br><br>Quoting David Osborne <<a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a>>:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yes Brett. Being Done.<br><br>Consider looking beyond the reporting....to the fact that space has <br>been opened for this to be shared and talked about. What is in the <br>news is not always the best reflection of what is actually happening.<br><br><br><br><br><br>--<br><br>David Osborne<br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.change-fusion.com">www.change-fusion.com</a> | <a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a> | 703.939.1777 On <br>Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Brett Barndt <<a href="mailto:barndtbrett@gmail.com">barndtbrett@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Can the OST community perhaps help here? It is a sad state of affairs <br>in which we all have a stake. Even citizens of the world have a stake <br>in this dysfunction owing to the interconnected nature of the global <br>economies, our livelihoods, and well-being.<br><br>The appointees, and congress by association, should not be permitted <br>to let it go on this way any longer. People are dying out there with <br>higher poverty, food insecurity, mortality, and suicide rates as a <br>result of this situation.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-su">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-su</a><br>rvey_n_3826165.html<br><br>Discourse and dialogue are the last thing that should be stifled by <br>culture or any other dysfunction in an institution like this one.<br><br>OST and an open process of multi-stakeholder engagement is of course <br>part of the solution.<br><br>This seems like it should be well within our rights to insist upon at <br>this moment in time. We are stakeholders. Albeit. we are <br>non-consulted, unrepresented stakeholders in the current practice.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a> To unsubscribe <br>send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------<br>This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a> To unsubscribe send an<br>email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 20:04:15 -0400<br>From: David Osborne <<a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a>><br>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OSList] A Time for Questions<br>Message-ID:<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span><<a href="mailto:CANQfh889CRYy8x11suTaBHef8Hg3VaEj-npQFBjzX+b7mX9LQQ@mail.gmail.com">CANQfh889CRYy8x11suTaBHef8Hg3VaEj-npQFBjzX+b7mX9LQQ@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>A wonderful description Harrison.<br><br>Here's to the questions and the space they open.<br><br>David<br><br><br><br>--<br><br>David Osborne<br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.change-fusion.com">www.change-fusion.com</a> | <a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a> | 703.939.1777<br>On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David Osborne's statement and Chris's question precipitated something in my<br>head. Needless to say David can and should speak for himself. However from<br>my relatively isolated corner of the universe (Maine) I have noticed a few<br>interesting suggestions that something of a shift might be in the wind.<br>Whether it will be sufficient to save Homo sapiens from ossification, only<br>time will tell.<br><br>One such suggestion in the increase of questioning. As a child of the 50's<br>(and yes there really were human beings walking the earth in that primal<br>time), my world was firmly described by answers. Everybody knew precisely<br>how life should be lived. There were rules to be followed, and if followed<br>success was assured. Of course there were deviants who were largely<br>marginalized and suppressed, but WE knew the Answers... the right way.<br><br>And then a funny thing called the '60s blew all that certainty away. It was<br>at once terrifying, refreshing, and exhilarating. And one thing was for<br>sure: The primacy of answers gave way to an avalanche of questions. It is<br>in<br>the nature of questions to open space. Answers close it.<br><br>With all the fresh air of openness, the forces of creativity soared to the<br>joy and terror of all involved. Space in all dimensions exploded, and the<br>tight societies of Philadelphia and New York, in which I grew up, shattered<br>to merge with insular rural communities, and make contact with strange<br>creatures on The Other Coast. Strange new world!<br><br>The 70's and early 80's possessed a rich nutrient openness. New stories,<br>and<br>the answers they purported to provide, popped up like mushrooms. Some were<br>weird, some substantive, some technological and all of them creating as<br>many<br>new questions as the answers they supposedly offered. Thrilling!<br><br>But as the 80's ended and the 90's arrived it seemed that the age of<br>answers<br>were settling more than a few of the questions. Author's could write<br>knowingly about "New Rules"... and while there was a breath of novelty it<br>seemed the rules (answers) were known.<br><br>The 90's slid by with almost dream like certainty. At least that's how it<br>seemed to me. The Markets were up, America ruled. Some were even suggesting<br>that the Age of Aquarius had actually begun! I guess there were still some<br>questions, but none that we couldn't handle with the right Process or<br>Procedure. And if not today, then tomorrow. So ended the Millennium.<br><br>The New Millennium rolled in as predicted. Surprise! But in a funny way it<br>seemed pretty anti-climactic. To be sure there were lots of parties,<br>fireworks, speeches, the usual turn of the Millennia Fantasies. But at the<br>end of the day it was pretty much more of the same... Until a bright clear<br>day in September. September 11th to be exact. Maybe this was just a turning<br>point for those of us in the USA. But I do believe, as I listen to my<br>friends and colleagues from around the world -- we were all there.<br>Doubtless<br>with different feelings and interpretations. But for better, for worse, for<br>richer, for poorer... it was a very different world!<br><br>How different, we are only just beginning to understand. And for the first<br>time in some long time -- the Questions vastly outnumber the available<br>answers. This is a Turning Point. And a wonderful one, I do believe. When<br>we<br>as a species are compelled to sit in that really uncomfortable and juicy<br>moment created by truly profound questions, the Space is truly OPENED. I<br>think that is where we are at, and best of all I see lots of new faces<br>rising to the bait. Call them "Millennials" or whatever... but it is every<br>bit as exciting as the "60's" and we may or may not survive to tell the<br>tale. But that has always been true.<br><br>Harrison<br><br><br>Harrison Owen<br>7808 River Falls Dr.<br>Potomac, MD 20854<br>USA<br><br>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<br>Camden, Maine 04843<br><br>Phone 301-365-2093<br>(summer) 207-763-3261<br><br><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a><br><a href="http://www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a> (Personal Website)<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST<br>Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>[<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] On Behalf Of Chris Kloth<br>Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:15 PM<br>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list; David Osborne<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Federal Reserve Employees Survey<br><br>David,<br><br>I wonder if you could share a little more about what is going on already. I<br>have had conversations with Fed officials in San Francisco and Cleveland<br>and, while they are doing some things I am very interested in and impressed<br>by, I have yet to see evidence of OST.<br><br>--<br>Shalom,<br><br>Chris Kloth<br>ChangeWorks of the Heartland<br>254 South Merkle Road<br>Bexley, OH 43209-1801<br>ph 614-239-1336<br>fax 614-237-2347<br><a href="http://www.got2change.com">www.got2change.com</a><br><br><br>Quoting David Osborne <<a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a>>:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yes Brett. Being Done.<br><br>Consider looking beyond the reporting....to the fact that space has<br>been opened for this to be shared and talked about. What is in the<br>news is not always the best reflection of what is actually happening.<br><br><br><br><br><br>--<br><br>David Osborne<br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.change-fusion.com">www.change-fusion.com</a> | <a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a> | 703.939.1777 On<br>Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Brett Barndt <barndtbrett@gmail.com<br>wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Can the OST community perhaps help here? It is a sad state of affairs<br>in which we all have a stake. Even citizens of the world have a stake<br>in this dysfunction owing to the interconnected nature of the global<br>economies, our livelihoods, and well-being.<br><br>The appointees, and congress by association, should not be permitted<br>to let it go on this way any longer. People are dying out there with<br>higher poverty, food insecurity, mortality, and suicide rates as a<br>result of this situation.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-su">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-su</a><br>rvey_n_3826165.html<br><br>Discourse and dialogue are the last thing that should be stifled by<br>culture or any other dysfunction in an institution like this one.<br><br>OST and an open process of multi-stakeholder engagement is of course<br>part of the solution.<br><br>This seems like it should be well within our rights to insist upon at<br>this moment in time. We are stakeholders. Albeit. we are<br>non-consulted, unrepresented stakeholders in the current practice.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a> To unsubscribe<br>send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------<br>This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a> To unsubscribe send<br>an<br>email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20130901/cf8711b1/attachment.html">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20130901/cf8711b1/attachment.html</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 23:31:17 -0400<br>From: Suzanne Daigle <<a href="mailto:sdaigle4@gmail.com">sdaigle4@gmail.com</a>><br>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [OSList] A Time for Questions<br>Message-ID:<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span><<a href="mailto:CAJh+fLDdDoWY0Zf_FPtL4XiPfExkFvbRUe+ZadEzVS3dAEfdOg@mail.gmail.com">CAJh+fLDdDoWY0Zf_FPtL4XiPfExkFvbRUe+ZadEzVS3dAEfdOg@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>This is Labor Day weekend - a period of pause and reflection as the summer<br>comes to an end, busy work resumes, the new school year begins. So fitting<br>this journey down memory lane and the important work ahead. Our theme at<br>WOSonOS was the World is Waiting... Are we Ready? The Millennials asserted<br>loud and clear: "We are ready!"... ready to partner with us, to step into<br>their leadership and to jump into the fullness of life in ways that may be<br>unlike anything we have lived and experienced before.<br><br>Reading what Harrison wrote reminded me of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. I<br>had been so moved by it that I transposed it on a beautiful Florida beach<br>photo and sent it to dozen friends in August 2008. It was a pre-Open<br>Space era for me; guess the soil was being tilled for what would come later<br>in my life as I was very drawn to its message. Now I understand more what<br>questions and opening space mean to the vibrancy of life. So this evening,<br>I went fishing for it and buried in the hard drives of an old computer that<br>contain many treasures, I found it and it gives me joy to share it with all<br>of you in this wonderful world-wide community-- a reminder of the<br>privileged work we each love and do!<br><br><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/9btt1cthfsmyi71/Seeking%20our%20path.pdf">https://www.dropbox.com/s/9btt1cthfsmyi71/Seeking%20our%20path.pdf</a><br><br><br>Suzanne<br><br><br><br>On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:04 PM, David Osborne <<a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a>>wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A wonderful description Harrison.<br><br>Here's to the questions and the space they open.<br><br>David<br><br><br>--<br><br>David Osborne<br><br><a href="http://www.change-fusion.com">www.change-fusion.com</a> | <a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a> | 703.939.1777<br>On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>>wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David Osborne's statement and Chris's question precipitated something in<br>my<br>head. Needless to say David can and should speak for himself. However<br>from<br>my relatively isolated corner of the universe (Maine) I have noticed a<br>few<br>interesting suggestions that something of a shift might be in the wind.<br>Whether it will be sufficient to save Homo sapiens from ossification,<br>only<br>time will tell.<br><br>One such suggestion in the increase of questioning. As a child of the<br>50's<br>(and yes there really were human beings walking the earth in that primal<br>time), my world was firmly described by answers. Everybody knew precisely<br>how life should be lived. There were rules to be followed, and if<br>followed<br>success was assured. Of course there were deviants who were largely<br>marginalized and suppressed, but WE knew the Answers... the right way.<br><br>And then a funny thing called the '60s blew all that certainty away. It<br>was<br>at once terrifying, refreshing, and exhilarating. And one thing was for<br>sure: The primacy of answers gave way to an avalanche of questions. It is<br>in<br>the nature of questions to open space. Answers close it.<br><br>With all the fresh air of openness, the forces of creativity soared to<br>the<br>joy and terror of all involved. Space in all dimensions exploded, and the<br>tight societies of Philadelphia and New York, in which I grew up,<br>shattered<br>to merge with insular rural communities, and make contact with strange<br>creatures on The Other Coast. Strange new world!<br><br>The 70's and early 80's possessed a rich nutrient openness. New stories,<br>and<br>the answers they purported to provide, popped up like mushrooms. Some<br>were<br>weird, some substantive, some technological and all of them creating as<br>many<br>new questions as the answers they supposedly offered. Thrilling!<br><br>But as the 80's ended and the 90's arrived it seemed that the age of<br>answers<br>were settling more than a few of the questions. Author's could write<br>knowingly about "New Rules"... and while there was a breath of novelty it<br>seemed the rules (answers) were known.<br><br>The 90's slid by with almost dream like certainty. At least that's how it<br>seemed to me. The Markets were up, America ruled. Some were even<br>suggesting<br>that the Age of Aquarius had actually begun! I guess there were still<br>some<br>questions, but none that we couldn't handle with the right Process or<br>Procedure. And if not today, then tomorrow. So ended the Millennium.<br><br>The New Millennium rolled in as predicted. Surprise! But in a funny way<br>it<br>seemed pretty anti-climactic. To be sure there were lots of parties,<br>fireworks, speeches, the usual turn of the Millennia Fantasies. But at<br>the<br>end of the day it was pretty much more of the same... Until a bright<br>clear<br>day in September. September 11th to be exact. Maybe this was just a<br>turning<br>point for those of us in the USA. But I do believe, as I listen to my<br>friends and colleagues from around the world -- we were all there.<br>Doubtless<br>with different feelings and interpretations. But for better, for worse,<br>for<br>richer, for poorer... it was a very different world!<br><br>How different, we are only just beginning to understand. And for the<br>first<br>time in some long time -- the Questions vastly outnumber the available<br>answers. This is a Turning Point. And a wonderful one, I do believe. When<br>we<br>as a species are compelled to sit in that really uncomfortable and juicy<br>moment created by truly profound questions, the Space is truly OPENED. I<br>think that is where we are at, and best of all I see lots of new faces<br>rising to the bait. Call them "Millennials" or whatever... but it is<br>every<br>bit as exciting as the "60's" and we may or may not survive to tell the<br>tale. But that has always been true.<br><br>Harrison<br><br><br>Harrison Owen<br>7808 River Falls Dr.<br>Potomac, MD 20854<br>USA<br><br>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<br>Camden, Maine 04843<br><br>Phone 301-365-2093<br>(summer) 207-763-3261<br><br><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a><br><a href="http://www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a> (Personal Website)<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of<br>OSLIST<br>Go to:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>[mailto: <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] On Behalf Of Chris<br>Kloth<br>Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:15 PM<br>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list; David Osborne<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Federal Reserve Employees Survey<br><br>David,<br><br>I wonder if you could share a little more about what is going on already.<br>I<br>have had conversations with Fed officials in San Francisco and Cleveland<br>and, while they are doing some things I am very interested in and<br>impressed<br>by, I have yet to see evidence of OST.<br><br>--<br>Shalom,<br><br>Chris Kloth<br>ChangeWorks of the Heartland<br>254 South Merkle Road<br>Bexley, OH 43209-1801<br>ph 614-239-1336<br>fax 614-237-2347<br><a href="http://www.got2change.com">www.got2change.com</a><br><br><br>Quoting David Osborne < <a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a>>:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yes Brett. Being Done.<br><br>Consider looking beyond the reporting....to the fact that space has<br>been opened for this to be shared and talked about. What is in the<br>news is not always the best reflection of what is actually happening.<br><br><br><br><br><br>--<br><br>David Osborne<br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.change-fusion.com">www.change-fusion.com</a> | <a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a> | 703.939.1777 On<br>Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Brett Barndt < <a href="mailto:barndtbrett@gmail.com%3ewrote">barndtbrett@gmail.com>wrote</a>:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Can the OST community perhaps help here? It is a sad state of affairs<br>in which we all have a stake. Even citizens of the world have a stake<br>in this dysfunction owing to the interconnected nature of the global<br>economies, our livelihoods, and well-being.<br><br>The appointees, and congress by association, should not be permitted<br>to let it go on this way any longer. People are dying out there with<br>higher poverty, food insecurity, mortality, and suicide rates as a<br>result of this situation.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-su">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-su</a><br>rvey_n_3826165.html<br><br>Discourse and dialogue are the last thing that should be stifled by<br>culture or any other dysfunction in an institution like this one.<br><br>OST and an open process of multi-stakeholder engagement is of course<br>part of the solution.<br><br>This seems like it should be well within our rights to insist upon at<br>this moment in time. We are stakeholders. Albeit. we are<br>non-consulted, unrepresented stakeholders in the current practice.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a> To unsubscribe<br>send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------<br>This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a> To unsubscribe<br>send an<br>email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>-- <br>Suzanne Daigle<br>NuFocus Strategic Group<br>7159 Victoria Circle<br>University Park, FL 34201<br>FL 941-359-8877;<br>CT 203-722-2009<br><a href="http://www.nufocusgroup.com">www.nufocusgroup.com</a><br><a href="mailto:s.daigle@nufocusgroup.com">s.daigle@nufocusgroup.com</a><br>twitter @suzannedaigle<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20130901/7325c954/attachment-0001.htm">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20130901/7325c954/attachment-0001.htm</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:45:16 -0400<br>From: Daniel Mezick <<a href="mailto:dan@newtechusa.net">dan@newtechusa.net</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [OSList] A Time for Questions...about Liminality,<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>Ronin &<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span>Stigmergy<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:5224966C.3070305@newtechusa.net">5224966C.3070305@newtechusa.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"<br><br>What a fascinating thread!<br><br>"..the forces of creativity soared to the joy and terror of all involved."<br><br>Two things are clear: the old rules no longer apply, and individuals are <br>reacting WAY faster than institutions. We are liminal. We are no longer <br>where we were, and not yet where we are going. We are in transition. The <br>Individuals, the whole...the whole ball of wax is going liminal in a <br>huge way...<br><br>Is everyone more liminal than ever before?<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality</a><br><br>The primary way to make sense of a near-chaos situation (like the one we <br>are in) is to inspect everything much more frequently. We know this from <br>Agile software methods. When the situation gets really messy, the answer <br>is empiricism...iteration...frequent inspection...and frequent <br>adjustment. This last part is tricky because it requires a very open <br>mind, and more than a little alacrity. In Japanese, the word 'ronin sums <br>up this idea. It means 'wave man' or 'wave rider'.<br><br>Is everyone a ronin because of what feels like s state of constant <br>change.....aka "permanent Liminality?" Are OST Facilitators actually <br>playing a Ronin role, serving for a time and moving on?<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dnin">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dnin</a><br><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Way_of_the_Ronin.html?id=G2g5KsKEOfoC">http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Way_of_the_Ronin.html?id=G2g5KsKEOfoC</a><br><br>One of the things that seems to be the new normal is 'stigmergy', the <br>form of self-organization that depends on one-way announcements and <br>unilateral broadcasts. The basic idea is a "send/receive" protocol where <br>anyone can "send" a message, and the "receive" is 100% optional. It's a <br>kind of invitation to listen. And optionally respond.<br><br>Sound familiar?<br><br>Is stigmergy the new normal?<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy</a><br><br>Everywhere, I see stigmergy, everywhere I see wave-people, everywhere I <br>see liminality. Various groups in various places are hosting <br>conversations and events, and making plans, and announcing them, and <br>going from there. No one group is "in charge" in any sense of that term. <br>It's futile to try. Any and all alignments by and between groups are <br>based on shared values and relative urgency, in the now. The most <br>effective people (both as individuals and in groups) are iterating and <br>inspecting VERY frequently now.<br><br>I wonder if Open Space is about to emerge one of the most useful if not <br>THE most useful piece of social technology for making sense of reality <br>in groups when everything is changing. The rise of stigmergy as a way of <br>organizing naturally favors the use of Open Space, for brewing new <br>things... by and between groups that find each other.<br><br>Is everyone more liminal than ever before?<br>Are OST Facilitators actually ronin?<br>Is stigmergy the new normal?<br><br><br>On 9/1/13 6:59 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David Osborne's statement and Chris's question precipitated something in my<br>head. Needless to say David can and should speak for himself. However from<br>my relatively isolated corner of the universe (Maine) I have noticed a few<br>interesting suggestions that something of a shift might be in the wind.<br>Whether it will be sufficient to save Homo sapiens from ossification, only<br>time will tell.<br><br>One such suggestion in the increase of questioning. As a child of the 50's<br>(and yes there really were human beings walking the earth in that primal<br>time), my world was firmly described by answers. Everybody knew precisely<br>how life should be lived. There were rules to be followed, and if followed<br>success was assured. Of course there were deviants who were largely<br>marginalized and suppressed, but WE knew the Answers... the right way.<br><br>And then a funny thing called the '60s blew all that certainty away. It was<br>at once terrifying, refreshing, and exhilarating. And one thing was for<br>sure: The primacy of answers gave way to an avalanche of questions. It is in<br>the nature of questions to open space. Answers close it.<br><br>With all the fresh air of openness, the forces of creativity soared to the<br>joy and terror of all involved. Space in all dimensions exploded, and the<br>tight societies of Philadelphia and New York, in which I grew up, shattered<br>to merge with insular rural communities, and make contact with strange<br>creatures on The Other Coast. Strange new world!<br><br>The 70's and early 80's possessed a rich nutrient openness. New stories, and<br>the answers they purported to provide, popped up like mushrooms. Some were<br>weird, some substantive, some technological and all of them creating as many<br>new questions as the answers they supposedly offered. Thrilling!<br><br>But as the 80's ended and the 90's arrived it seemed that the age of answers<br>were settling more than a few of the questions. Author's could write<br>knowingly about "New Rules"... and while there was a breath of novelty it<br>seemed the rules (answers) were known.<br><br>The 90's slid by with almost dream like certainty. At least that's how it<br>seemed to me. The Markets were up, America ruled. Some were even suggesting<br>that the Age of Aquarius had actually begun! I guess there were still some<br>questions, but none that we couldn't handle with the right Process or<br>Procedure. And if not today, then tomorrow. So ended the Millennium.<br><br>The New Millennium rolled in as predicted. Surprise! But in a funny way it<br>seemed pretty anti-climactic. To be sure there were lots of parties,<br>fireworks, speeches, the usual turn of the Millennia Fantasies. But at the<br>end of the day it was pretty much more of the same... Until a bright clear<br>day in September. September 11th to be exact. Maybe this was just a turning<br>point for those of us in the USA. But I do believe, as I listen to my<br>friends and colleagues from around the world -- we were all there. Doubtless<br>with different feelings and interpretations. But for better, for worse, for<br>richer, for poorer... it was a very different world!<br><br>How different, we are only just beginning to understand. And for the first<br>time in some long time -- the Questions vastly outnumber the available<br>answers. This is a Turning Point. And a wonderful one, I do believe. When we<br>as a species are compelled to sit in that really uncomfortable and juicy<br>moment created by truly profound questions, the Space is truly OPENED. I<br>think that is where we are at, and best of all I see lots of new faces<br>rising to the bait. Call them "Millennials" or whatever... but it is every<br>bit as exciting as the "60's" and we may or may not survive to tell the<br>tale. But that has always been true.<br><br>Harrison<br><br><br>Harrison Owen<br>7808 River Falls Dr.<br>Potomac, MD 20854<br>USA<br><br>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<br>Camden, Maine 04843<br><br>Phone 301-365-2093<br>(summer) 207-763-3261<br><br><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a><br><a href="http://www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a> (Personal Website)<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST<br>Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>[<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] On Behalf Of Chris Kloth<br>Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:15 PM<br>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list; David Osborne<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Federal Reserve Employees Survey<br><br>David,<br><br>I wonder if you could share a little more about what is going on already. I<br>have had conversations with Fed officials in San Francisco and Cleveland<br>and, while they are doing some things I am very interested in and impressed<br>by, I have yet to see evidence of OST.<br><br>--<br>Shalom,<br><br>Chris Kloth<br>ChangeWorks of the Heartland<br>254 South Merkle Road<br>Bexley, OH 43209-1801<br>ph 614-239-1336<br>fax 614-237-2347<br><a href="http://www.got2change.com">www.got2change.com</a><br><br><br>Quoting David Osborne <<a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a>>:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yes Brett. Being Done.<br><br>Consider looking beyond the reporting....to the fact that space has<br>been opened for this to be shared and talked about. What is in the<br>news is not always the best reflection of what is actually happening.<br><br><br><br><br><br>--<br><br>David Osborne<br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.change-fusion.com">www.change-fusion.com</a> | <a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a> | 703.939.1777 On<br>Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Brett Barndt <<a href="mailto:barndtbrett@gmail.com">barndtbrett@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Can the OST community perhaps help here? It is a sad state of affairs<br>in which we all have a stake. Even citizens of the world have a stake<br>in this dysfunction owing to the interconnected nature of the global<br>economies, our livelihoods, and well-being.<br><br>The appointees, and congress by association, should not be permitted<br>to let it go on this way any longer. People are dying out there with<br>higher poverty, food insecurity, mortality, and suicide rates as a<br>result of this situation.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-su">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-su</a><br>rvey_n_3826165.html<br><br>Discourse and dialogue are the last thing that should be stifled by<br>culture or any other dysfunction in an institution like this one.<br><br>OST and an open process of multi-stakeholder engagement is of course<br>part of the solution.<br><br>This seems like it should be well within our rights to insist upon at<br>this moment in time. We are stakeholders. 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