Well - if anybody is guilty, it must be me. Way back when the OSLIST began, the good folks at Boise State University offered to host our conversations - FREE! Now it must be understood that Boise State University is a public institution, operating in the public domain, at public expense. And we have been beneficiaries of their munificence. But there was an expectation that what we did would be for the public good, and available to the public. Sounded like a good idea to me - just like Open Space. And I agreed. OSLIST hit the cyberwaves. Anybody could join (and many have). Anybody could leave (and many have). Some would be lurkers, some more in evidence - and that was, and remains, a personal choice. Now it is true that we (maybe I should say, "I") could have opted for an encrypted forum with clear entry criteria for who was "in" and who was "out". But that didn't sound much like Open Space to me. I also agree, that we might have created a "community decision making process" - but at the time we didn't have much of a community to speak of (in terms of numbers) - and just about everybody knew each other. So we did what we did, or I guess it would be fair to say - I did what I did. Guilty as charged!
I understand that back in the old days, we did not have Super-Search Engines (Googles and such) that could pry into every nook and cranny of the InterNet. But truthfully, if we had such thing, I would have shouted Hallelujah! After all, the point was to open the space, get the message out, share what we were learning with whomever, however, any way we could. So where do we go from here? We could close the OSLIST. Sounds terrible, but it is possible. We could adjourn to some undisclosed, secure location. Sounds worse, and I ain't coming. Or we could just carry on as always, recognizing that if this is not your cup of tea, there are always 1) The Delete Button 2) The Unsubscribe Button otherwise known as The Law of Two Feet. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://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 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
