At 10:39 PM 9/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Previous conferences I might have just "visited" in the way mentioned above. However, with this conference I had the opportunity to check-in in a whole different manner. I wonder about the onsite participants and what it was like for them to feel online participants adding to the occasion. In what ways was that addition of attention, intention, passion, ????? experienced?
With the advent of Internet, time and space constraints largely disappear or at least are majorly modified. And Internet, in its own way, is definitely the largest Open Space that most of us regularly participate in. Combining Internet and Open Space in whatever way always, at least in my experience, creates a very powerful new reality. Actually, at the first Open Space in Monterey CA (1985) the Internet in its earliest forms was very much a part of the scene, and in addition to the 85 folks taking the first plunge into Open Space, there were probably that many more beaming in from other spaces. In a most remarkable way we found our time/space bound gathering going timeless and global. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-365-2093 207-763-3261 (Summer) Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
