Re: [OSList] OS question for Community/School event

2012-08-28 Thread Koos de Heer
Hi Lisa, I could not agree with you more. I was going to write something similar but you beat me to it - and very eloquently as you always do :-) One thought I might add is that, even with pre-registration in place, whoever comes are the right people. So if there are a few who did not regist

Re: [OSList] WOSNOS, Children and sharing

2012-08-28 Thread Stella Duffy
I¹m not organising it either, nor do I have children, but I have attended all the large-scale D&D Open Spaces that Improbable have organised and have seen that over the years more people have brought their children, they have been welcomed (from babies to teenagers), and their presence in that spac

Re: [OSList] OS question for Community/School event

2012-08-28 Thread Lisa Heft
Hi, Kevin - Here's my thinking on pre-registration: Pre-registration is about sustainability. About understanding the extent of and using resources (food, site, materials, documentation support) thoughtfully and in reflection to the numbers of people who will be coming. Pre-registration is

Re: [OSList] WOSNOS, Children and sharing

2012-08-28 Thread Eva P Svensson
Hi Jamie, My son Gustav (15 years) will come with me to WOSonOS - I got the idea from WOSonOS in San Francisco where there where children with us. I'm really looking forward to share this with my son - to have him have a hint of what I am doing and for him to practice his english :-)) Love to se

Re: [OSList] WOSNOS, Children and sharing

2012-08-28 Thread Lisa Heft
Hi, Jamie - I look forward to meeting you and your family this October! Most assuredly children are welcome and I'm not even the host! But I do know that Phelim and Matilda's lovely young Riddley will be there and I'm hoping Lucy's lovely young Ayla - they are wonderful babies who crawl ar

Re: [OSList] WOSNOS, Children and sharing

2012-08-28 Thread Sharon Quarrington
Jamie I brought my kids to WOSNOS in Vancouver many years ago. It was a great experience for all of us. I hope you are able to bring yours. They are a wonderful addition. Sharon -Original Message- From: Jamie Colston Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:42 AM To: World wide Open Space Tec

Re: [OSList] WOSNOS, Children and sharing

2012-08-28 Thread Jamie Colston
Hi All, I have a question. I would love to come to WOSNOS and I have a big world cafe/open space, two day event called the Bath and North East Somerset Youth Climate Summit (see www.greenvisionmovement.org/youthsummit), which takes place on 15th/16th October. It brings together 150 young people fr

[OSList] Open Space at Learning Village in Slovenia...

2012-08-28 Thread Frauke Godat
*Great, Wiebke Herding just posted this on facebook - the Open Space agenda for the Learning Village in Slovenia:* The international learning village in Slovenia is in full swing now, and we've opened space yesterday afternoon. As I'm sitting in the courtyard of Statenberg Manor, a group is experi