Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Herman
thanks to you, marei, for sweeping all those things up together. andto you ashley, for taking it one more step. every time the story ofthese things, or anythings gets retold it changes. it loses somethings, occasionally gains a few, more interesting details...and if we are luck, it gains som

Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread ashley cooper
Thanks Alan. ? added! Tree, I can understand that it could feel like an encroachment upon your space to know that someone else is editing your words. I also felt a little akward skimming the post down. I reassured myself, however, when I likened myself to a journalist. The OSW weblog is more of a

Re: OpenSpaceWorld.ORG - PLEASE HELP

2005-12-16 Thread Tree Fitzpatrick
By the power invested in me, I now pronounce you one of the founding members of the German Open Space Institute. Voila! * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view

Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread Tree Fitzpatrick
Ashley, it does not seem to be in the spirit of open space to keepposts short on the os weblog. A blog is not exactly a wiki. Space isshut down for me when I know somehow (who is the 'we' tryin to keepposts short and who gave them power over other people's words) else isediting. It's okay to

short meeting in Kazan, Russia OST on Development of Student Work Brigades

2005-12-16 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
Greeting colleagues, Galina Tsarkova and Mikhail Pronin shared this week the story of a short 5 hours OST meeting that took place in oil-rich Kazan, Tatarstan, about 12 hours by train from Moscow. The OST meeting was sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Education and the Tatarstan Ministry for Y

Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread ashley cooper
Thanks Marei, We're trying to keep the length of posts at the osw weblog rather short. I've done a bit of editing and will post these words to the weblog tomorrow. warmly (in cold seattle), ashley OSlist members define Open Space Technology with 25 words or less (having fun and getting creative

Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread Harrison Owen
How about "Open Space is the WD-40 of group work. One shot will loosen up just about anything." (For those not in the know - WD-40 is a marvelous universal solvent. Harrison NEW EMAIL ADDRESS hho...@verizon.net Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 30

want to show ost photos on your website?

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Herman
as we gather more and more photos in flickr.com, the resulting mosaic of images is really something. the last time i loaded our weblog, it showed photos i recognized from sweden, singapore and chicago, for instance. it showed a poster, a breakout group, a person with their topic page, and the mee

Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Herman
LOL On 12/16/05, Chris Corrigan wrote: > Onion Skin Technology...peel back the layers and it makes you cry...but cook > it up and it gets sweet and juicy. > > We're WAAAY off line now! > > Chris > > > On 12/16/05, Michael Herman wrote: > > > > wow. i like the tofu line, but then again, i li

Re: short meeting in Kazan, Russia OST on Development of Student Work Brigades

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Herman
thanks, raffi! i see that you've already posted your pictures and tagged them with 'openspacetech' so you can see that they are already showing up all around the website, including on teh homepage, drawn randomly from the entire collection of public photos tagged with openspacetech at flickr.com.

Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Herman
wow. i like the tofu line, but then again, i like tofu. could we turn that around and make it onions that permeate the rest of the work, or other spices, or is there another food that soaks up flavor like tofu... and is something that evokes a 'yum' from more people? os is like pizza, can bring

Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Corrigan
Onion Skin Technology...peel back the layers and it makes you cry...but cook it up and it gets sweet and juicy. We're WAAAY off line now! Chris On 12/16/05, Michael Herman wrote: > > wow. i like the tofu line, but then again, i like tofu. > > could we turn that around and make it onions that p

Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Corrigan
Tree! Good one! Open Space: Tofu for your organizational stir fry. :-) Chris On 12/16/05, Tree Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I, too, am enjoying this 25-words-or-less discussion. > > I especially agree with Chris' suggestion that the language be adapted > to incorporate the client's language. I kno

Re: OST with less than 25 words

2005-12-16 Thread Tree Fitzpatrick
I, too, am enjoying this 25-words-or-less discussion. I especially agree with Chris' suggestion that the language be adapted to incorporate the client's language. I know it was in another thread but Harrison has recently shared a great story about offering "Practice of Peace" in Helsinki but refr