In the beginning there were bumblebees and butterflies.... and then Jeff Aitken discovered giraffes... those who sit in a group but strain their necks trying to see/hear what's happening in other groups...
Today was day one of a three day capacity building conference for members and friends of the Omidyar Network (http://www.omidyar.net). Our proceedings are here, for the curious... http://www.omidyar.net/group/conference/ws/proceedings/ This is a community that's been formed almost entirely online, in a conferencing system created and funded by eBay creator Pierre Omidyar. The group is pretty well wired, and wi-fi'd. We're meeting in a place that's an old friend of mine, where Harrison and I have done many an OST training... the Carleton Hotel, which is also entirely wi-fi'd out. So we're swimming in laptops and all of the proceedings are going directly into the O.net website. The group is so fast taht even our gathering dinner was recorded before i could even think about making a proceedings page. All the topics were posted online before i could even scribble them on a page for transcription. In the midst of all of this direct connecting to the web, we've discovered a new OS critter: the worm. these are the folks who will sit in one session but be squirming over by wi-fi'd laptop to listen in on the simultaneous postings of other groups taking notes directly into other laptops. they can even chime in if they like. not saying it's good or bad... no matter really... just reporting that it's happening. i'm personally not ever very excited about this sort of immediate reporting, too often it's just a boring transcript... but this group is quite skilled... and the online environment is first nature, first culture... so it really fits. as more and more get wi-fi'd and skilled, you're bound to find some worms popping up in your own bug collections. and... if the osonos site is wi-fi'd we just might come up iwth yet another bug, but i can't imagine what to call it, if i successfully skype my way into corrigan's laptop for a session i'd like to convene there in halifax while i have to be here in chicago. watch out and enjoy! michael -- Michael Herman Associates http://www.michaelherman.com ...inviting organizations into action Small Change News Network http://www.smallchangenews.org ...blogging giving flourishing Omidyar Network meets in Chicago, July 29-31st! http://www.moreandmore.us ...people making good things happen * * ========================================================== [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
