Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Herman
here's the thing that i think might still be the same about osonos. it has to do with the hosting of such things. in the minute or two *right* after the vancouver open space ended, in the middle of the all the shuffling and confusion where everyone kind of looks around and has to decide if they w

Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

2009-09-13 Thread Michael Herman
i'm sure i missed the announcement on the paris gathering, christine... but if you will send me a blurb with a link, i'd be glad to post it in teh openspaceworld.org blog, alongside the taiwan invite. some of these other posts have me thinking some more about worldwide open space on open space...

Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

2009-09-13 Thread Chris Corrigan
I think there has another thing that has changed in the Open Space world, and that has been the fact that Open Space has really tipped into some sort of mainstream. It is a process increasingly familiar in many places I travel to, and it seems to have been introduced and used in ways that have goo

Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

2009-09-13 Thread christine koehler
Michael, Several OSonOS on different continents won't happen quite simultaneously this time, but almost ! We are hosting an event in Paris 2 weeks later...Of course it means that we won't be able to have Skype or whatever conversations. Which is a pitty in a way : our event is supported by the c

Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

2009-09-13 Thread Chris Corrigan
From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Herman Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 1:56 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then... sheila isakson and i hosted osonos7 in chicago. our main model for that was os

Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

2009-09-13 Thread Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
Thank you, Michael, for sharing this. The increasingly competitive, and it feels to me, exclusive, nature of the process for WOSonOS has saddened me. It felt like it was moving away from the heart and soul of what OS is all about. What you have said here really resonates for me. (And in

Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

2009-09-13 Thread Harrison Owen
mber 13, 2009 1:56 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then... sheila isakson and i hosted osonos7 in chicago. our main model for that was osonos4, hosted by harrison. and my counsel to every host-to-be i've talked with since then is, first a

Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

2009-09-13 Thread Michael Herman
sheila isakson and i hosted osonos7 in chicago. our main model for that was osonos4, hosted by harrison. and my counsel to every host-to-be i've talked with since then is, first and foremost, to remember that this is open space we're talking about, so keep looking for things to not do. we booke

SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

2009-09-11 Thread Eva P Svensson
Dear Lisa and host team to-be… Being one of the presenters for WOSonOS in San Francisco on behalf of Lisa and her host team – I can just ad – if you are not able to be there in person – make sure that those who represent you have a good “show”/offer – because then it is so much easier to be the st