At OSonOS, my blogless friend Eric Lilius shared with us an insight from Emo Phillips that brought the house down:
Then I realized who was telling me this.
I can’t tell you how much fun it was to finally meet Eric in person.
Wendy nails some nice inquiry into the nature of Open Space practice:
I’ve been giving some thought to the home of the Open Space Technology practitioner community, openspaceworld.org. A few years ago Michael Herman and I reconstituted this site as a wiki with the intention that it would then be open to be edited by the community, and cared for by the community as well.
Alas, it seems that this did not take as well as we had hoped and constant spamming meant that we had to close the editing function. You can still have a password if you like, and edit to your heart’s content, but it’s one more step away from accessibility. And the result is that a small group of us, and mostly Michael, end up taking care of the site which was not the original intention of building the wiki
And so I’m wondering if there are examples out there of great sites that act as centres of gravity for communities of practice. The Appreciative Inquiry Commons comes to mind, as does The World Cafe site, two communities of practice I orbit within. I’d like ours to be collaborative as well as “heftier.” And not spammable.
So, thoughts?
My friend Kerry Napuk sent me the invitation to the OSonOS in the UK, slated for September 30th in London. It is being dedicated to the memory of Colin Morley who was an Open Space facilitator and who died in the July 7 bombings in London. Here is the invitation:
In order to set-up the event and finalise the catering, please let us know NOW, as numbers are limited, if you can join us by contacting Kerry Napuk, Open Futures, 10 West Savile Road, Edinburgh EH16 5NG, telephone 0131 668 4377 or email k@napuk.demon.co.uk .
Best of luck to my British colleagues in their gathering. I wish I could be there with them.
