What an example for selforganized community excellence. Michael, and all wonderful supporters of www.openspaceworld.org - my deepest appreciation for this amazing ongoing contribution for our growing OS community AND for the world! Many, many thanks!
Warmly, Gabriela ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Herman To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:00 AM Subject: website thank you's, updates, invites... hello all, this just to report a bit on progress at www.openspaceworld.org this last year. please spread the word as you're able, links in websites and email signatures and such. every link helps. and now... FIRST, a big thanks to those who've made financial contributions! ...brian rogers, elwin guild, agneta setterwell, tim lannan, siona van dijk, sheila isakson, at least one anonymous donor, and osi-usa are the ones who paid the bills to keep all those pixels lit last year. AND another big thanks to everyone who has posted photos of open space events at www.flickr.com/photos/tags/openspacetech ...we have collected almost 2400 pictures in the last year! And a very special thank you to Ted Ernst, Chris Corrigan, Ashley Cooper, Wendy Farmer-O'Neill, Doug Germann, and Raffi Aftandelian, and Christy Lee-Engel who've helped keep the blog going this year -- and did some really great work in conference calls and experimental blogging to create an administrative structure for the site that is the beginning of my being able to turn over the technical keys to the community at large. More on that as the year goes on, I reckon. Thanks, too, to Esther Matte, who has just finished a new French translation of my Working in Open Space: A Guided Tour article. That will be posted later this week. Check the weblog at www.openspaceworld.org/news or the French section of the site for the link. THIS YEAR... we have also made it easier to find info on OSonOS events, added a couple of podcast recordings of openings, blogged some juicy bits from the OSLIST, added new links to places like the WorldMap and WorldScape, cleaned up the ResourcesArchives... AND we have opened a new space for your comments about the site, a single page where general comments can be posted, events announced, news reported, blog items submitted for posting, as well as specific comments about individual blog posts can also be skimmed. so this year we will collect comments! www.openspaceworld.org/news/comments AND we've been making more and more links to OST practitioners you might never have heard of, but who are indeed out there opening space and blogging about it elsewhere. Ted's been keeping an eye on technorati blog search engine and posting links in the blog. AND there have been some rumblings about starting a series of conference call forums, as well. Find Ashley Cooper if you'd like to help that get started. Chris Corrigan has been talking about doing individual interviews for some years now... so if you see him someplace, give him a nudge on that one. AND we've done some sprucing of the bookstore along the way too, the latest update being the addition of Peggy Holman's 2d edition Change Handbook which is now on sale at www.openspaceworld.org/bookstore SO... please do have a look at what's happening at www.openspaceworld.org ...and buy Peggy's book ...and post some comments to things... Maybe this year we can even move some of our juicier questions and conversations out where others can see them easier, in blog posts and comments at www.openspaceworld.org . Maybe we'll figure out how to have an OSonOS in the Weblog! Finally, please let me know if you want to join the blog posting team, we probably have room to take on a few more this year. Next updates, if needed, might come later this year, maybe April or May... Many Thanks and Happy New Year, Michael ...geez, I didn't realize how much happened this year... and I guess i got excited... i busted right out of lowercase! -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates 300 West North Ave #1105 Chicago IL 60610 USA phone: 312-280-7838 email: mich...@michaelherman.com skype: globalchicago http://www.michaelherman.com http://www.openspaceworld.org http://www.chicagoconservationcorps.org * * ========================================================== 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 * * ========================================================== 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
