i'm as novice as you are. one of the great things about os technology i have experienced is: as long as the four principles and the one law are put up and rehearsed and you don't try to over facilitate and are open to people within (participants) and without (environment) with plenty of good intention for the people that create an ambience or aura of openess, freedom, and acceptance of all diferrences... i will have thousand miles yet to go on but it is what i trust power of good intentions exercised with simple yet profound practice of open space (technology)...
i tall you, the practice has a great durability!!! but... it would never give me a freedom to play sloppy... the oinly thing i can guarantee is i would better practicing it with better (not necesarrily more) preparation and more practices... ;-) i wish you all the best! Love and Peace, park -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Diceman Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Greetings from Venezuela. OS for decisions? Hi all I'm new to the list and kinda new to OS. I'm originally from Toronto, Canada but am currently in Venezuela doing research on the participatory democracy they are trying to achieve on the local level. You can read my story here http://get.cooptools.ca/why_venezuela I'd love to intruduce them to OS. I found the Spanish resources so that's a good start. My main question is how OS could fit in when they are used to open plenary debate followed by hand votes? They need formal decisions for the democratic governance of their communities but OS does not seem to provide such clear conclusions. Am I missing something? Are there any good examples of how OS could slide nicely into some kind of voting process? I have my ideas but I'd first like to hear from other more experienced folks. hasta pronto -jd -- ------------------------------------------------------- Jason Diceman Co-op Tools [email protected] www.cooptools.ca 416-538-2667 1-866-519-co-op ------------------------------------------------------- * * ========================================================== [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 * * ========================================================== [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
