Simultaneous multi-site Open Spaces have been done. Internet provides the transfer mechanism of issues and reports, and the major difficulty is multiple time zones... but that all seems to work out. Issues and reports generated anywhere are available everywhere. People work on what they have passion for (surprise) and results are shared (combined) as it seems useful. Given the amount of stuff passing back and forth two days seems to be required, particularly if the time zone spread is large. Convergence and action planning can get a little confusing, but then again it seems to work. The major thing I noticed was that both sites (there were only two sites in the one I was connected to) seemed to recalibrate their particular time zone and came out with a "time" that was unique to the total event. There were also a number of off site participants (dropping in electronically) so the net effect was that the whole thing ran on what I could only call global time, which seemed to be somewhere between every time and no time at all. Drove the clock watchers crazy, but certainly made the point that: Whenever it starts is the right time.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lucas Gonzalez Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: world-wide open-space with www support I've received a message which you can see at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minciu_sodas_en/message/4061 (I include a copy below, for convenience) It's about http://www.bethechange.org.uk - they are organizing an event for May 19-21, 2004 London "to explore the means of achieving true and effective systemic change - and to make it happen!" leading up to a much larger event in 2005. The "espians" http://www.wtfcon.org held an OS gathering a couple of months ago, and will be having a larger one at the end of May, also in London. There's a reference to OS at the end of the mess-age. It does look like they will be having "presenters" - I don't know how much OS there will be. Does anyone here have experience in multiple simultaneous open spaces (MSOS), each of them very local, with shared results of some kind? Could some "intermediate products" (maybe the concept is all wrong, but I'm thinking about market-place items and maybe other things) be shared somehow? Maybe the final report people take home can have twice as many pages (our group's pages and that other group's pages). I guess it's not the written stuff that counts, but ... Has this (MSOS) been tried regarding Peace? Would it have any value other than the mere publicity? Lucas === BY Andrius Kulikauskas <[email protected]>, 27 de Abril, 2004 0:19 amh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minciu_sodas_en/message/4061 === Colin Morley, I'm very glad to learn of your event (thanks to Ed Daniel and Chris Macrae) http://www.bethechange.org.uk May 19-21, 2004 London "to explore the means of achieving true and effective systemic change - and to make it happen!" leading up to a much larger event a year from now. I just want to alert you to our open laboratory Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt serving and organizing independent thinkers around the world. We work very much in that spirit. Perhaps we could help you with your online presence throughout the year. I share my letter with our open gateway http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minciu_sodas_EN/ Currently, we're organizing an Open People network http://www.primarilypublicdomain.org/2.html to focus our energy around people "working openly" in the Public Domain. We are developing an interface WOW (Working Openly WOW) to help organize "virtual flash mobs" by which we support events such as yours. You might like us to provide such support, and in exchange, incorporate some of our UK participants into your event. In particular, the Espians who host WTF http://wtfcon.org might showcase their software which they will be realizing around that time. And perhaps you might promote their (and United Diversity's) event WTF 2: What's the Future!? on May 29-30 in London as a follow-up venue for seizing on the energy that you spark. I think you'll find they have very similar goals. I'd like to connect http://www.kind.org with our soulmates http://www.onevillage.biz who are integrating IT into holistic African villages. I'd like to connect Lynne Twist with Neil McEvoy of OnDemand-Network, who aims to leverage our strategies and resources for building large global fractal teams. http://www.ondemand-network.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=381 (I share my letter with his group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ondemand-network). I also think you might help our laboratory reach out to Islamic independent thinkers, which is important for healing the cultural rifts in our world. We'd like to know how we might best do that. Ed Daniel has put forth to us a vision "Digital community infrastructures for Iraq". http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Minciu_Sodas_AR/message/35 (I share with the group we're assembling in Arabic). During your event, I'll be in Vienna, Austria for Oekonux, http://www.oekonux-conference.org, searching for a new economy for a new society inspired by the principles of open source software. I'll be giving a talk on "structuring infrastructure for virtual flash mobs". Again, we might find a way to energize each other. All of this to say, please know that there are many people who care about your work, and think of us as working-in-parallel. We hope we might help each other connect with different groups of people so that we are all included. Peace, Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt [email protected] +370 5264 5950 Vilnius, Lithuania Chris Macrae, presumed copyright: > REAL MEETING Basically , 6 extraordinary people from the USA have > been brought over so that people can share global > challenge/responsibility experiences with them - and they are > practice people - eg the lady who ran the the hunger project for 20 > years widely agreed to have done more for gender equality in > muslim areas than any other US originated initiative > or the man who with Gorbachev set up a state of the world forum > > moreover behind the scenes as hosts are 2 coaches who are also > former sporting superstars , ie David Hemmery and Sir John > Whitmore; and I believe in open space style tradition their > thinking was a real network needed planting -because those fromally > with leadership roles are not making globalisation human enough, > so we need to catalyese new opinion leading circles - through the > rich interactions of several hundred people meeting and listening > to each other Each letter sent to [email protected] enters the PUBLIC DOMAIN whenever it does not state otherwise. http://www.primarilypublicdomain.org/letter/ Please credit our authors! === ______________________________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! - 6MB, más protección contra el spam ¡Gratis! http://correo.yahoo.es * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
