Hi Leon, I like that the OSI website is going to be attended to. It is my understanding that in February of 1998, Peggy put out an appeal for assistance for the OSI site at tmn.com > I don't know what other response she had, but I think Barry Owen stepped into the offer wonderfully, offering to create a site from scratch "off-site" to address the critical concerns you are now raising, and from there to move this creation over to the tmn.com site. Complete with chat room capabilities and so on. When he was here, OSI Canada supported him fully and are prepared to raise funds to assist in a thorough site. If the time is NOW to get that all moving, all the better. It is time, for sure. From the perspective of those gathered at OSI Canada when we discussed the current OSI site, we recognized the hard work that went in to it, the valuable information there, but the disheartening effect of it being a US site with the balance almost looking like satellites. I wish so very much that this could be overcome. For example, even having the incorporation there, without it being clear that only the US has this for the particular OSI doesn't feel good in the way it is set. Much has happened over the years to correct for this type of perception, but it still hasn't shaken the image. As for the other ideas you have in your list, TERRIFIC!
Warmest regards, Birgitt Birgitt Bolton of Dalar Associates www.openspacetechnology.com 55 Ravina Cres., Ancaster, Ontario, Canada L9G 2E8 phone: 905-648-5775 fax: 905-648-2262
