You can still find that incredible document hosted at Micheal’s site:

http://www.michaelherman.com/publications/ost_nonguide.pdf

Chris

On Aug 8, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Harrison Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Lucas – Don’t know where this fits, but several years ago Michael Herman and 
> Chris Corrigan put together what they called a Non-User’s Guide which is 
> essentially an annotated collection of a particularly rich set of discussions 
> here on OSLIST. I haven’t checked, but I think it is still available on 
> www.openspaceworld.org May turn out that human minds/fingers are still an 
> essential part of the process no matter the technology. My thought would be 
> Graduate Students. Good labor at a reasonable price with a possible 
> dissertation or two.
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> From: OSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Lucas Cioffi
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 2:52 PM
> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
> Subject: Re: [OSList] What would a harvest from a long OSList discussion look 
> like?
>  
> Hi All,
>  
> Someone reached out and suggested I try a word cloud of the conversation.  I 
> took a few minutes to copy the 50 emails from the conversation entitled 
> "Management and Organization" which has been running for the past month. I 
> pasted it below, and if the word cloud doesn't come through as an attachment, 
> you can also see it online here.
>  
> Word clouds are helpful, but I'm still left wanting more.  I can't put my 
> finger on it.
>  
> I'm thinking that there must be some very creative harvesting methods used by 
> facilitators in this group, using graphic facilitation and other methods.  
> Are your approaches to in-person harvesting applicable to harvesting one of 
> our 50-email discussions?
>  
> I'm listening to see if I can create a software for harvesting & summarizing 
> email threads to unlock some of the knowledge buried in the OSList archives 
> and breath new life into some of our dormant yet valuable discussion threads 
> from the past.
>  
> Lucas Cioffi
> Co-Founder, Bark!Best
> Charlottesville, VA
> 917-528-1831
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> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Lucas Cioffi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> So this week many of us are watching a lively discussion thread grow and grow 
> and grow.  It's awesome that it has received nearly 50 email replies already 
> from people all over the world, however 95% of the people on the list aren't 
> active in it yet, and of course that's OK.
>  
> For me and probably others, digging into such a large conversation becomes a 
> bit intimidating when the conversation is so large.  
> Question: So, what would a harvest from such a long OSList email discussion 
> look like if it was to be useful to you personally?
>  
> I'm asking the question above for two reasons:
> For me: Aside from being a longtime OS enthusiast, I'm building a tool for 
> large online conversations and looking for ideas about how to create 
> meaningful harvests from them.
> For all of us: Unrelated to my tool, maybe if there was an easy way to 
> harvest/summarize these long and lively conversations on OSList, then it 
> could give access to the conversation to those who do not have the time or 
> courage to dive in directly.
> New voices: The younger generations spend less time on email, so they largely 
> miss out on the great knowledge that's shared on a list like this.  So 
> harvests might be one way to bring new voices to our conversations on OSList.
> To get the most value out of a conversation, someone certainly has to ride 
> along and read most of it.  But the problem is that when someone chooses to 
> read one conversation in-depth, they are choosing to not read another great 
> conversation in-depth.  So I'm hoping that a harvest can help people when 
> they decide which conversations they want to invest their time in.
>  
> I look forward to hearing any suggestions!
> --
> Lucas Cioffi
> Co-Founder, Bark!Best
> Charlottesville, VA
> 917-528-1831
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