Could we imagine a jigsaw puzzle that connects the big picture of what Ted is talking about with open space as one interfacing piece
what else could be there? here are some pieces we have been experimenting with for 22 years based round the death of distance scenario of this script we need collaboration knowledge city spaces; the city or its vilage sub- networeks being the m,ost accessible real part of most of our social networks; the people need to take back a combination of systems if the city is to be safe for cross-cultural and inter-nation citizens networks; these include: media (assuming briadcast media is not yet on any collaboration citiizens side then we will need a web logging up what spaces a city is hosting, what projects it is experimenting and open sourcing, what twin city relations it has eg across open space, microfinance, socila entrpreneurial finacin we will need hubs; these are spaces in the community that welcome folk of every culture, and particularly the energy of the young; they are ungovernment spaces in that they do what top-down cannot in terms of coommunity susteining projects and interlocal waves (including connecting open source projects invented in some other city but now ready to be franchised here) citizen groups will beed to know where projects of a particular type are being jammed - for example millions of health for all projects are being culturally created around the world but where are they being webbed into one family tree of possibilities; both the demand that we linkin around one transparent collecting house and the way that citizen networeks practice interconnections with the jam is something that citizens (particularly those driven hy a particular theme eg health) need to be the right people to come and stand up and co-create; if health is one worldwide wave around whose collaboration human race will sustain or destry; it would be a jolly good idea if ever collaboration city could agree a shortlist of all such waves: clean energy's photosynthesis is the main one scientists have told me about since 1984 so I have to buy that any other energy race is a lower less colaborative race; whether you agree or not we need to see each other's maps and how colaboration can connect through what there are probably many other pieces; but one starting pace is if we can agree rougly on the pieces then we can be sure that each city's number 1 colaboration web is searching out for them, svehuling where people can network around them, both within its distance borders and across the world's deepest open action learning projects I invite anyone who wants to try to represent their city in approximately this open connecting spirit to co-create the weblog http://clubofyourcity.blogspot.com - insert for yourcity its name; if you find it is already there as is http://clubofchicago.blogspot.com, in 99.99% its ready and waiting for you to be its main co-editor -ask at wcbn...@easynet.co.uk; we essentially use a 4-hemisphere grid as emerging at http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com on top of which any collaboration network or conflict resolving approach can overleay its own cross-roads and start to give deep cultural texture to who's who of open collaboration and citizens connecting global villages to be sustiained transparently chris macrae PS since 5 times more scots live around the world's hemispheres than in scotland, we multiply that particular value perspective and systemic language interface to the peoples economics at http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com ; what the gift to the world your place can multiply Quoting Ted Ernst <t...@chicagohumanist.org>: A while back, I asked about experiences doing more than one conference in the same conference center, and talked about an idea some of us in Chicago (Michael Herman among them) of literally sharing the same OS circle and agenda wall among two or more networks. Well, we have another draft of an invitation, with two groups. It seems we need one or two more for balance: http://www.omidyar.net/group/conference/ws/invitationsimultaneous/ (badly named page will change by the time we're done) I also wanted to share another open space experiment in the works. OSCON is the Open Source Convention and is a 2500 person $1000 each afair. OSCamp is for everyone else (free space donated by OSCON). Here's a very drafty link (http://oscamp.org/InviteGroups) to a plan that basically says (taylored to each group) "OScamp is an open event we think you'd like. We know the carrier pigeon society hasn't met in a while. Why don't you bring the whole gang and meet in this larger open space gathering" So while for the omidyar.net gathering, we're attempting to put all of the various invitations on one page with a unifying sentence, OSCamp is going the other way and tayloring the invite to each group, while letting them know that their group will only be a small part of something much larger and more wonderful. Imagine the cross-pollenizations! peace, ted -- Humanize the Earth! http://tedernst.com Open more space! http://www.openspaceworld.org Chicago event July 14-16: http://moreandmore.us/ skype: TedErnst google talk/jabber: teder...@gmail.com * * ========================================================== 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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
