Hi Dear OS Friends, I'm in conversation with a potential sponsor for a large 1.5 day OS event next October, the purpose of which is to connect people for self-organized community action (non-specific at this point). The crowd is expected to be folks who live and work in a metro area and who may have a tenuous connection through one of several sponsoring organizations - but who have not had such a large scale experience with other members of their community. The planning team is meeting in a week or so where the sponsor will pitch the idea. She's pretty convinced that OST is the way to go but has the familiar concern that people who don't work together or are not part of an intact group can often come up with fabulous ideas that peter out quickly or never go anywhere at all. Among other things, I would like to offer the planning team a collection of especially generative convening questions from similar events that resulted in new action groups forming and concrete contributions to a community. Any links to similar OS events would also be very helpful. I'll compile the responses and feed them back by the end of next week. Thanks in advance for your help. Warmly from sunny, sweaty Phoenix, Christine Christine Whitney Sanchez KAIROS Alliance Inc. 2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85048 480.759.0262 www.kairosalliance.com <http://www.kairosalliance.com/>
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