http://www.benfranklin300.org/chc.htm
Sorry I did not find out about this earlier in the year, and what a shame the organiser was not into the open space network (or by the looks of the web in many actively linking peoples networks) coffeehousee challenge is a revolution for self-organising (not to say independence from top-down government that fails community-rising needs) in Britain enabling anyone to name a one hour controversial debate, host it in a starbucks, have it propagated through the other co-sponsor networks that include the Royal Scoeity of Arts - Britain's main association where the great and the good are challenged by ordinary people and a massive online library of innovation scripts is available at http://www.rsa.org.uk/events/ltresults.asp? show=all another co-sponsor is the online part of the British Broadcasting Corporation ; the BBC's journalists hosted 3 of last year's coffeehouse challenges and were surprised to find that the public knew that the lack of social spaces was root caused by mass media as well as sommercialism taking over ever city's physical open spaces! Back to BenFranklin300 - for this to have got started in Pennsylvania , it would have needed a viral network who loved open space explaining and propagating the news; that may be why it seems to have only 3 cafes left but end June its closing time. Perhaps John and anyone in the PA/DA area who loves opening cafe spaces can contact the local organiser to se if there remains time to pollinate this seed for liberty and open one hour spaces. Or anyone in the US could start asking for Starbuck's contact point to ask why not in our place too chris macrae http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.easynetdial.co.uk * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
