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. > > Harrison > > Winter Address > 7808 River Falls Drive > Potomac, MD 20854 > 301-365-2093 > > Summer Address > 189 Beaucaire Ave. > Camden, ME 04843 > 207-763-3261 > > Websites > www.openspaceworld.com > www.ho-image.com > OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > OSLIST Go > to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > 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 > > > > <image002.jpg> > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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