Joe Paul, I assume someone from Meta Net probably has seen your request and responded. But incase they are busy with their cyber conference planning, I suggest you contact Lisa Kimble, Scott Burns or Amy Eunice at www.tmn.com. They are in the process of setting up a second annual conference in cyberspace which will include open space.
There is a community of interest in the world known as "civic networking" which is doing a lot of learning that speak to the concerns you raise. Lisa mand Amy did a workshop I attended at ODNet last yeat that was very helpful to me. The punchline, for me was this: All of the dynamics that occur in f2f meetings can occur in cyberspace and so all the planning you would normally to facilitate group interatction are appropriate in cyberspace. Chris
