Re: Immigration OST

2006-05-20 Thread Chris Weaver
Hi Doug, Here is a link about "Sustainability Learning Communities" that addresses some of your questions. I'll tackle your request for definitions of specific terms a little later :-) http://springbranch.us/index.php?section=2 Chris -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@list

Will Open Spacers Pledge for Worldwide Freedom of Speech?

2006-05-20 Thread Chris Macrae
http://www.pledgebank.com/bbcgames This pledge asks you to write to the governors of the world service public broadcaster BUT only when another 2000 netizens or citizens sign up For 22 years now, its been our belief that public broadcasters aligned with the web will either be the media's death

Re: large group intervention tree

2006-05-20 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
Tonnie, I want to say thank you for taking the time to share some of your resources. And I think it is fair that you don't include AI. AI, I have heard, is more of an attitude as opposed to a tool. Maybe what that suggests is we are living in a post-tool era. Tools have become less solid, liquid

Re: Immigration OST

2006-05-20 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
Harrison, Thanks for helping see what would make the invitation process simpler. Pre-os? Coffee! Well, that's more open space! Now, if I could only figure out how to make the writing of books a self-organizing process! I have one or two ideas... Doug, I think that was a minor miracle that you h

juicy convening questions

2006-05-20 Thread Christine Whitney Sanchez
Hi Dear OS Friends, I'm in conversation with a potential sponsor for a large 1.5 day OS event next October, the purpose of which is to connect people for self-organized community action (non-specific at this point). The crowd is expected to be folks who live and work in a metro area and who may

hosting a book

2006-05-20 Thread Zelle Nelson
Raffi, If you want to see an example of a book written using self- organization and invitation take a look at: The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter by Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, World Cafe Community, and Margaret J. Wheatley This book - a wonderful re

Re: juicy convening questions

2006-05-20 Thread Zelle Nelson
Hi Christine,Out of an short (3 hour) OS following a speech given by presidential hopeful Col. Robert Bowman in the summer of 2004, the Kindness Campaign - www.thekindnesscampaign.org was created and has been sustained to the present in Asheville, NC. I don't have the actual invitation - Gayatri Er