some thoughts on your questions below, jake. but first, you'll want to find the univ of kentucky rural health system story in harrison's tales from open space. here are the rules they came up with. this must be one of my top five shared bits of os lore: michaelherman.com/ky
> - Within a continuous Open Space container, do you think that all > meetings among the group should be announced to everyone? That is, should > everyone be invited to every meeting? What happens if two people just want > to have coffee and catch-up? In the Youth for Europe case study, the > convener of the meeting determined whom to invite, which might not be > everyone. It's like a mini-Open Space, rather than a meeting within an Open > Space. But it can also get cliquish that way, and it seems less > transparent. > > on invitations, modern calendar software is already a marketplace wall. nothing in os requires that everyone be invited, or even that all session are posted. people meet up in the bar, schedule and not, all the time. people say, "let's go to dinner." no notes are posted. all fine. the uk rules address this a little differently. > > - Is it beneficial to have a theme? It doesn't seem like either > organization had a theme in the case studies for the overall Open Space. > Perhaps their purpose was their theme... In Youth for Europe, there was a > theme for individual meetings, i.e., the mini-Open Spaces. > > on theme, there is already some implied purpose for your work. if you can articulate it, great. i'd think it'd be obvious. if not, gather first impressions, write them down. revisit in a month. meanwhile, the work is the work. > > - Any suggestions on how to handle push notification overload? So many > meetings might start getting called that people's inboxes are stuffed, and > they tone out. > > with only 9 people involved, you might try a physical wall. also, there is much to learn from the agile movement. what you're talking about might learn a lot from kanban, scrum and enterprise scrum. more than i can say here. but in my experience, those are all effectively alternative versions of ongoing open space. they've been used a lot, but are all made better with insights from what we do in os meetings. i'd be glad to chat about them with you. or can share links when website updating is done this week. michael > I am pretty sure I'll have more questions later. :D > > Thanks ahead of time! > > All the best, > Jake > ________________ > > When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and > you will be free of problems. > - Robert Adams <http://www.robert-adams.info/> > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
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