Good points, Artur, all.
Just about your last part:
Actually, there were Egyptian people who were in communication about
coming - various reasons why they could not, after all, come.
And actually, there were several members of the 2011 hosting team who
came to the 2012 WOSonOS.
Long conversations, good requests from Askers naming what might help
them join us (after which some decided to, some did not) - lots of
great work by the host team and other contributors to access and
support, wonderful contributions and relationship forming and
strengthening to make this happen. All about access and inclusion.
I l-o-v-e that you are inviting this language and naming and
challenging and 'why-would-we-count-them' and analysis of how we can
do better and be better in everything we do...
And your English - as always - is fabulous...
Lisa
On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Artur Silva wrote:
Michael and all:
I really do not understand all this (these) conversation(s)...
First, all these conversations began with a post in a blog from
someone that is not here! Then people began to "try to understand
what he may have in his mind"... As far as he has been invited to
come here and has not accepted, for me that discussion was over.
(For those that are always reminding us of "the principles" I would
say that if "whoever comes are the right people" then “whoever does
not care to came are not"!)
Second, traditions - and even myth - are also part of a culture (in
this case the culture of this particular community). I can
understand quite well the reason why a North American community that
until that had an annual meeting only in USA and Canada, when
managed it to came to Europe and then to go to Asia, South America,
etc. decided that it was time to give that meeting the name of
Worldwide OSonOS (WOSonOS). The fact that there is a worldwide
annual meeting of the all community and many different OSonOS at
city, region, national, or transnational levels are not something
that worries me. On the contrary, calling all those many meetings
"worldwide" bothers me for one, and only one, reason - it is not true!
Also begin to count all the OSonOS as if they were all equal or if
that was possible (and, if possible, would be worth doing) is
something that I can't understand. It is like counting all the OST
events - they are innumerable by definition and the most one can say
is that they are in excess of some number...
I would prefer to analyze things the other way round. As the
majority of WOSonOS are held in English as their main language
(sometimes complemented with the opening and some sessions also in
other language) can we call that "Worldwide"? I mean, for me it is
not some much a question of location but a question of language. And
even of origin: wouldn’t it be nice to have given access to
WOSonOS2012 to the most interesting thing that happened in the
worldwide community this year and have Egypt represented by an
Egyptian? And wouldn't it be nice to have given access to
WOSonOS2012 to the person that invited the community to Chile - or
another that represented the organizing team of WOSonOS2011?
Regards
Artur
PS: Sorry for any misspellings - no time for English revisions
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