Recipes for Opening Space
I think we will make an OSLIST invitation to write our “recipes” for OpenSpaceTech. Sort of like the poetry contest we have there, you get as many ingredients and sequential steps as you can fit on a single recipe card, front and back. This would acknowledge that packaging and selling Open Space doesn’t work. When I try to “package” or “sell” OpenSpaceTech, it usually gets rejected. Structures seem to resist other structures. Still, there is the real need to have this recipe in our pockets for whipping up a batch wherever we are.
I imagine that if a bunch of us write up our own little recipes, it would be like recipes for chocolate chip cookies… mostly same, but with special little differences that make “my” mom’s recipe best. Some would have measured amounts, others simply a rough list of ingredients. Same for the prep steps. And some would have nuts. In the end, almost any kind of chocolate chip cookie is good. The secret ingredient, of course, is love.