Harrison, thank you very much. My brown skin notwithstanding, my cheeks are almost turning ruddy with embarrassment. Embarrassment because, really, I am doing so little to keep this going. One needs to keep in the perspective the fact that there would be no OSLIST if there were no OS, and no OS if there were no Owen. I am grateful and delighted to a small part of a big community and movement, one that is very clearly a force for good in this world ... and heaven knows we need a lot of that in these times of needless and senseless strife. Because of a dear friend of mine, I got to spend a couple of weeks in Palestine, Israel and Jordan last summer (including a few days in a refugee camp), and there I found far more warmth, goodwill and deep sense of history and culture than the media would allow to be presented. Movements (if you will allow such a term) such as OS create alternative connections among peoples from the ground up, challenging established notions, defeating institutionalized perceptions, recreating the world in way that really makes so much more sense.
Thanks to you, Harrison, and the entire OS community, Cheers, all, and warmest regards during the chilliest of months, Murli Murli Nagasundaram, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems Boise State University, College of Business Boise, ID 83725, USA http://www.murli.com mu...@boisestate.edu ph: (208) 426-3905 fax: (208) 426-1135 >>> " Harrison Owen" <hho...@verizon.net> 12/01/06 12:45 PM >>> Many people have commented on the quality and vitality of this wonderful OSLIST. Some have even wondered how we did it - hoping to copy the approach for their own organization. Needless to say they were disappointed to learn that OSLIST seems to happen pretty much by itself - self organizing as it were. Well that is almost true, but there is one well kept secret. Some many years ago Murli Nagasundaram came to an Open Space event, an OSONOS I believe. As he was leaving he asked whether we might want a listserve in order to stay in contact. And since he worked for Boise State in something to do with computers, he could and would make the necessary arrangements. All the rest is history, but part of that history has been a well kept secret - Murli. I can't ever remember seeing him online, nor can I remember ever seeing him face-to-face again. But not a day goes by that I am not thankful for his continuing presence, and of course also for the computer capacity of Boise State. They run OSLIST as a public service, we have never been charged - and when things get a little screwy, as recently - the fix is virtually instantaneous. So here's to Murli with many thanks! Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html <http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html> * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
