<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147181">dear chris and friends - the current wikipedia starts open space like this</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147652"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147653"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147654"></b></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147655"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147656">Open Space Technology</b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147657"> (</span><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147658">OST</b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147659">) is a method for organizing and running a meeting or multi-day conference, where participants have been invited in order to focus on a specific, important task or purpose. OST is a participant-driven process whose agenda is created by people attending. At the end of each OST meeting, a document is created summarizing the work of the group. The OST method is based upon work, beginning in the 1980s, by Owen Harrison. It was one of the top ten </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_development" title="Organization development" title-off="" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(11, 0, 128); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147660">organization development</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147661"> tools cited between 2004 and 2013.</span><sup style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147662"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology#cite_note-OD-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147663">Open Space Technology</a></sup></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147236">what imo is wrong- on a quick read that millennials do</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147334">the last sentence makes it sound as if open space is past -"it was: ...</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147318">today pretty much every western city with youth in it has hubs that think they do hackathons and open spaces but they have diluted (and have sponsors vested interests)-</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147717"> </b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147737">the average hub practice has lost what i feel makes open space system transforming -often the resident hosts don't even know how much has been lost</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147421">I dont have the talents to be a great open space facilitator but ever since first meeting harrison i have felt that the only way to save schools from the livelihood destruction nightmare they have become in the west is to free pre-adolescents with experience of real open space -once a child has co-created in open space they can take that with them - the empowerment that they can co-create, be community builders etc</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147460">I suppose whats on wikipedia is a lost game- what i would like is the ultimate bookmark to carry on trying to get schools to free kids to host open space</b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147483">for reasons that may be peculiar to me my test of a perfect bookmark is can i get chinese friends to understand it - fortunately harrison's open space method is very well respected in china- ironically what we now need is the chinese to translate open space practice (catalogue living examples they scale across a fifth of the world's people) back into english ! -sorry just my naughty cents worth from a washington dc that is pretty scarily closed in 99% of policy meetings as well as schooling </b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147035" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147130" dir="ltr">chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk <a href="http://www.valuetrue.com/">www.valuetrue.com</a> <a href="http://www.womenuni.com/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_148021">www.womenuni.com</a> </div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147036"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147041" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147040"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147039"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147038"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147037"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147896"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Kaarel Vaidla <kvaidla@wikimedia.org>; Bhavesh Patel <bhavmail@gmail.com>; chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 11:17<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 92, Issue 5<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147044"><br><div id="yiv6918441006"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147046">I’m not clear on exactly what is wrong with the Wikipedia article. It seems fine to me, such as it is. But I realize I’m not seeing what others are seeing. <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147048"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147050">Part of editing well is to identify specifics that need to be changed and pointing to good sources that support the change. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147072"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147070">Are there particular thing s that stand out for you?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147068"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147058">Chris. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6918441006AppleMailSignature">_____________<div>CHRIS CORRIGAN</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1543904898120_147060"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/">www.chriscorrigan.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>