Hi Michael, Thanks very much for the suggestions! I changed the wording so that the site is now about offering "great recommendations to each other" rather than "best practices". You also offered some excellent new questions in your email. I posted a few of them on the site to share with everyone (below).
*In case anyone is following email thread and looking for a place to jump in, here is one way... * Perhaps folks might like to suggest an answer to your questions based on what has worked for them in the past (don't worry- answers on Bark!Best are limited to short sentences, so adding a recommendation is quick-- but be careful, you might find it a lot of fun!): - Great ways to enable self-organization by a group? Link: http://www.barkbest.com/s/njWDi - Great ways to prepare to be unattached to outcomes? Link: http://www.barkbest.com/s/NBEhZ - Great ways to get into the mode of being fully present and utterly invisible? Link: http://www.barkbest.com/s/iknKH Michael, I like how you shared your experiences in the form of a story. For demonstration purposes (we can take it down later if you prefer) I posted it in the "stories" section so people can see an example: http://www.barkbest.com/openspace (look for "Stories") *This is an experiment, and much more feedback is welcome!* I have some time and energy to help this tool evolve to meet the needs of our community. I'm hoping there are a few other folks who also feel called to explore how we can better preserve our community's knowledge. I have a vision of an interactive user guide that is *written by many of us*, with many diverse opinions so that a reader has a rich pool of insight to draw from to improve their next OS event. I don't have all the answers, but I sense there are tremendous possibilities here! Lucas Cioffi Charlottesville, VA 917-528-1831 On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]>wrote: > ... attached a picture of the type of Tibetan Temple Bells that HO refers > to (there is a drawing of them on page 115 of the 3rd Edition of the Users > Guide). The ones pictured in your tool are very large...and you would not > need two of them. They remind me very much of the kind of bells that are > used at traditional formal meetings (in the West) and used to bring order > into the meeting. And pretty expensive at 229.99 to 589,99 on the amazon > link provided by your tool, weighing 3 to 5 pounds. > Hempal Shrestha of Nepal > >> http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/moreinfo/businesscard.php? >> p_id=711&country_name=Nepal&c_id=127 >> > > brought two of them as a present for me. They now sit on my workdesk, very > impressive. > > > The ones in the attached picture are flat, 8cm in diameter, about 400gm a > pair and have a rather soft, dark sound that carries... you can hear them > in every corner of the room with 2000+ people gathered (OS in Würzburg in > 2003 with 2108 participants)... but they are good for smaller groups > because you can control the volume nicely (takes a little practice). This > type costs about 40 to 60 US$. > The pair I use I purchased in a Buddhist Temple in San Diego early in this > century... actually I got several, one of them I gave to Galina Tsarkova, > she holds them in her hands in her World Map entry > >> http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/moreinfo/businesscard.php? >> p_id=351&country_name=Russian%20Fed.&c_id=146 >> > > click on the picture to enlarge it to get a closer look. > > > cheers > > mmp > > On 16.05.2014 23:14, Lucas Cioffi wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm quite excited to bring this topic up and I'm hoping there are a few >> like-minded souls willing to explore this direction with me. >> >> *The Goal:* /complement rather than replace this discussion list with a >> searchable knowledge repository, consisting of stories and >> recommendations/ >> / >> / >> *What: *I'm building a tool which can help us share stories and >> >> recommendations with each other in an efficient way. I would like to >> put it to work in service of the OS community. When I floated this idea >> on this discussion list a few months ago, I got some great feedback. >> Some people see the potential for how we can better archive the >> stories and insights that we are already sharing on this list. >> >> *Why: *Every one of us probably has at least a few quick & useful >> >> insights about OST and facilitation each month (that ends up being >> thousands of insights per month!), yet we are collectively sharing only >> a small fraction of all those insights. On a practical level, if >> someone is planning an open space event and faced with a particular >> challenge, they could perform a quick search on the knowledge repository >> to see who has dealt with this in the past. After holding their event, >> they can add their insights for what worked and didn't work for them. >> >> *How:* The tool is called Bark!Best and it can do some fun things. At >> >> the simplest level, it is a way to share questions and answers and to >> make those answers easy to find. Most interactions happen like this-- >> people sharing short recommendations in text form. At a more advanced >> level, it is similar to a 24/7 online open space; it lets participants >> take any question and post it as a video-chat session at any time of the >> day. >> >> *Getting Started* >> >> I took a few first steps. Harrison gave me permission to go through the >> full text of the User Guide; I extracted 160+ recommendations and their >> respective 270+ supporting reasons, organizing and posting them all here >> in a Q&A format: http://www.barkbest.com/openspace >> >> Those quotes from the User Guide are just a starting point for all of us >> to build upon. */Think of a living book that is written and updated by >> >> all of us, all the time-- what an amazing body of knowledge that could >> be. /* For example, the User Guide describes two "ways to empower >> participants <http://barkbest.com/s/DuQLY>"; as a group, we might be >> >> able to think of a dozen more based on all our experiences. >> >> *Next Steps* >> >> * Some of you might have some exciting ideas for what might be >> >> possible here. Please, please, please reach out to me or to >> everyone on this list. >> * It would be absolutely amazing to work with a few folks who would >> donate a few hours of their time to go through some of the most >> fruitful parts of the archive, to harvest insights and copy them >> into the knowledge repository. >> >> *Respect & Caution* >> >> Having been on this list for five years, I respect and honor that this >> discussion list has been going a very long time before I got here. I >> recognize that I cannot succeed without a few other people who are >> willing to take the lead and guide this project so that it meets the >> actual needs of this community. I hope you'll join me! >> >> -- >> Lucas Cioffi >> Co-Founder, Bark!Best >> NCDD Board Member, 2011-2013 >> Charlottesville, VA >> 917-528-1831 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> > -- > Michael M Pannwitz > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49 - 30-772 8000 > > > > Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 396 resident Open > Space Workers in 68 countries working in a total of 143 countries > worldwide: www.openspaceworldmap.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >
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