Re: On the openness of the word open (was: OST and Open Forums) (long)

2004-05-07 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Thanks, Artur, for the reminder that the name someone puts on an event does not guarantee the quality of what happens. Even a certification process would not guarantee that "certified" practitioners would not stray from the simple and great design of OST. There's very little way of keeping peop

On the openness of the word open (was: OST and Open Forums) (long)

2004-05-07 Thread Artur Silva
Summary In this post I will discuss ONLY some linguistic questions about the use of the word "open" to qualify another name, be it "forum" or "space" or... Will try to prove that the fact that someone uses the word "open" doesn't mean that the space is necessarily opened, and sometimes it is even