<div dir="ltr">Hi Michael,<div><br></div><div>Thanks very much for the suggestions! I changed the wording so that the site is now about offering "great recommendations to each other" rather than "best practices". You also offered some excellent new questions in your email. I posted a few of them on the site to share with everyone (below).</div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>In case anyone is following email thread and looking for a place to jump in, here is one way... </b></div><div>Perhaps folks might like to suggest an answer to your questions based on what has worked for them in the past (don't worry- answers on Bark!Best are limited to short sentences, so adding a recommendation is quick-- but be careful, you might find it a lot of fun!):</div>
<div><ul><li>Great ways to enable self-organization by a group? Link: <a href="http://www.barkbest.com/s/njWDi">http://www.barkbest.com/s/njWDi</a><br></li><li>Great ways to prepare to be unattached to outcomes? Link: <a href="http://www.barkbest.com/s/NBEhZ">http://www.barkbest.com/s/NBEhZ</a><br>
</li><li>Great ways to get into the mode of being fully present and utterly invisible? Link: <a href="http://www.barkbest.com/s/iknKH">http://www.barkbest.com/s/iknKH</a><br></li></ul></div><div>Michael, I like how you shared your experiences in the form of a story. For demonstration purposes (we can take it down later if you prefer) I posted it in the "stories" section so people can see an example: <a href="http://www.barkbest.com/openspace">http://www.barkbest.com/openspace</a> (look for "Stories")<br>
</div><div><br></div><div><b>This is an experiment, and much more feedback is welcome!</b> I have some time and energy to help this tool evolve to meet the needs of our community. I'm hoping there are a few other folks who also feel called to explore how we can better preserve our community's knowledge. I have a vision of an interactive user guide that is <b>written by many of us</b>, with many diverse opinions so that a reader has a rich pool of insight to draw from to improve their next OS event. I don't have all the answers, but I sense there are tremendous possibilities here!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lucas Cioffi</div><div>Charlottesville, VA<br></div><div>917-528-1831</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Michael M Pannwitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmpannwitz@gmail.com" target="_blank">mmpannwitz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">... attached a picture of the type of Tibetan Temple Bells that HO refers to (there is a drawing of them on page 115 of the 3rd Edition of the Users Guide). The ones pictured in your tool are very large...and you would not need two of them. They remind me very much of the kind of bells that are used at traditional formal meetings (in the West) and used to bring order into the meeting. And pretty expensive at 229.99 to 589,99 on the amazon link provided by your tool, weighing 3 to 5 pounds.<br>
Hempal Shrestha of Nepal<br>
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<a href="http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/moreinfo/businesscard.php?p_id=711&country_name=Nepal&c_id=127" target="_blank">http://www.openspaceworldmap.<u></u>org/moreinfo/businesscard.php?<u></u>p_id=711&country_name=Nepal&c_<u></u>id=127</a><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
brought two of them as a present for me. They now sit on my workdesk, very impressive.<br>
<br>
<br>
The ones in the attached picture are flat, 8cm in diameter, about 400gm a pair and have a rather soft, dark sound that carries... you can hear them in every corner of the room with 2000+ people gathered (OS in Würzburg in 2003 with 2108 participants)... but they are good for smaller groups because you can control the volume nicely (takes a little practice). This type costs about 40 to 60 US$.<br>
The pair I use I purchased in a Buddhist Temple in San Diego early in this century... actually I got several, one of them I gave to Galina Tsarkova, she holds them in her hands in her World Map entry<br>
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<a href="http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/moreinfo/businesscard.php?p_id=351&country_name=Russian%20Fed.&c_id=146" target="_blank">http://www.openspaceworldmap.<u></u>org/moreinfo/businesscard.php?<u></u>p_id=351&country_name=Russian%<u></u>20Fed.&c_id=146</a><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
click on the picture to enlarge it to get a closer look.<br>
<br>
<br>
cheers<div class=""><br>
mmp<br>
<br>
On 16.05.2014 23:14, Lucas Cioffi wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
Hi All,<br>
<br>
I'm quite excited to bring this topic up and I'm hoping there are a few<br>
like-minded souls willing to explore this direction with me.<br>
<br></div><div class="">
*The Goal:* /complement rather than replace this discussion list with a<br>
searchable knowledge repository, consisting of stories and recommendations/<br>
/<br>
/<br></div>
*What: *I'm building a tool which can help us share stories and<div class=""><br>
recommendations with each other in an efficient way. I would like to<br>
put it to work in service of the OS community. When I floated this idea<br>
on this discussion list a few months ago, I got some great feedback.<br>
Some people see the potential for how we can better archive the<br>
stories and insights that we are already sharing on this list.<br>
<br></div>
*Why: *Every one of us probably has at least a few quick & useful<div class=""><br>
insights about OST and facilitation each month (that ends up being<br>
thousands of insights per month!), yet we are collectively sharing only<br>
a small fraction of all those insights. On a practical level, if<br>
someone is planning an open space event and faced with a particular<br>
challenge, they could perform a quick search on the knowledge repository<br>
to see who has dealt with this in the past. After holding their event,<br>
they can add their insights for what worked and didn't work for them.<br>
<br></div>
*How:* The tool is called Bark!Best and it can do some fun things. At<div class=""><br>
the simplest level, it is a way to share questions and answers and to<br>
make those answers easy to find. Most interactions happen like this--<br>
people sharing short recommendations in text form. At a more advanced<br>
level, it is similar to a 24/7 online open space; it lets participants<br>
take any question and post it as a video-chat session at any time of the<br>
day.<br>
<br></div>
*Getting Started*<div class=""><br>
I took a few first steps. Harrison gave me permission to go through the<br>
full text of the User Guide; I extracted 160+ recommendations and their<br>
respective 270+ supporting reasons, organizing and posting them all here<br>
in a Q&A format: <a href="http://www.barkbest.com/openspace" target="_blank">http://www.barkbest.com/<u></u>openspace</a><br>
<br>
Those quotes from the User Guide are just a starting point for all of us<br></div>
to build upon. */Think of a living book that is written and updated by<div class=""><br>
all of us, all the time-- what an amazing body of knowledge that could<br></div>
be. /* For example, the User Guide describes two "ways to empower<br>
participants <<a href="http://barkbest.com/s/DuQLY" target="_blank">http://barkbest.com/s/DuQLY</a>>"<u></u>; as a group, we might be<div class=""><br>
able to think of a dozen more based on all our experiences.<br>
<br></div>
*Next Steps*<br>
<br>
* Some of you might have some exciting ideas for what might be<div class=""><br>
possible here. Please, please, please reach out to me or to<br>
everyone on this list.<br>
* It would be absolutely amazing to work with a few folks who would<br>
donate a few hours of their time to go through some of the most<br>
fruitful parts of the archive, to harvest insights and copy them<br>
into the knowledge repository.<br>
<br></div>
*Respect & Caution*<div class=""><br>
Having been on this list for five years, I respect and honor that this<br>
discussion list has been going a very long time before I got here. I<br>
recognize that I cannot succeed without a few other people who are<br>
willing to take the lead and guide this project so that it meets the<br>
actual needs of this community. I hope you'll join me!<br>
<br>
--<br>
Lucas Cioffi<br>
Co-Founder, Bark!Best<br>
NCDD Board Member, 2011-2013<br>
Charlottesville, VA<br>
917-528-1831<br>
<br>
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