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The OST at the Detroit Journalism That Matters event last week (http://jtmdetroit.org) was truly
amazing, as was the January Seattle JTM event (http://jtmpnw.com/) I attended after
being invited by Anne Stadler at the Leadership in a Self-Organizing
World event (http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?SelfOrganizingWorld)
where Harrison Owen gave some great talks in the midst of an OST event. I'm a bit baffled right now - because I am reading about the Social Forum http://www.ussf2010.org/ being held in Detroit Jun 22-26. I'm reading about it in Yes! magazine, after purchasing it in my Missoula health food store. (Yes! magazine showed up in spades at the Seattle JTM Open Space). The organizers of this event - which is expecting 20,000+ attendees showed up at JTM Detroit last week. Here is a quote about the event on page 11 of the latest Yes! magazine in a commentary titled (in very Open Space terms) "A Personal Invitation to the US Social Forum": "we come together in open space to share and learn best practices for movement building, get inspired, connect across work and distance, and see ourselves as part of a larger force. It's that open horizontal structure, instead of the usual series of top-down aspirational speakers, that allows the deeper relationships and movement building to happen... USSF is a self-organized, decentralized process..." I've looked at the program, and it doesn't look like a pure OST event at all, but they mention "open spaces" quite a bit. If Open Space ideas are being used in an event that is attracting 20,000 people - I'm curious why we're not talking about it here. Does any one know more about this event? Anyone going? What is the relevance to major big time adoption of Open Space ideas in things like barcamps, USSF, etc., albeit impure, to the relevance of OST itself? * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist |
