Re: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-28 Thread Heidi Nobantu Saul
...@we-becoming.com P Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:20 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: WOSonOS -and- future years an

Re: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Herman
i think this is a pretty good list, lisa. the issues, first, but especially the hosting joys. as i read through what you did, i notice that we did many of them in chicago in 1999. we had about 80 folks, i think. 12 countries. nobody asked about visas, but that was before 9/11, so maybe those t

Re: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-26 Thread Lisa Heft
It sounds like there are 4 areas of discussion here: * Feelings of inclusion / helpfulness of the every-few-months call that currently has a few representatives from many different countries on it * The idea of having one in-person 'main' WOSonOS per year - whether or not there

Re: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-26 Thread Larry Peterson
PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: SV: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long] Dear Lisa, Michael, Harrison and all Thanks for opening this conversation. I think World OSonOS is great and don’t see it as closing space for other OSonOS’s – we are having a local one each month all year around

SV: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-25 Thread Thomas Herrmann
Ämne: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long] Hello, dear colleagues – Get yourself a cup of tea (or other beverage of your choice) as this is a long message... First, thank you for your patience as we work to complete the WOSonOS 2008 Book of Proceedings for distribution. We are

Re: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-25 Thread Tree Fitzpatrick
Thanks for this letter, Michael Herman. You have expressed much of what I think. AND . . . I have one specific response, below. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Michael Herman wrote: > thanks for opening this conversation, lisa. > > to me, the most important thing about osonos is that it is our

Re: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-25 Thread Harrison Owen
5:10 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long] thanks for opening this conversation, lisa. to me, the most important thing about osonos is that it is our chance to practice what we preach, open to and in the world. in recent years, it

Re: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-25 Thread Steven "Doc" List
I, for one, am perfectly happy to have whoever shows up issue the invitations and make the decisions. While I might have been willing to do almost anything to be at WOSonOS in San Francisco, the cosmos had other plans for me (I was away from home for 5 out of 7 weeks as it was, including c

Re: WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Herman
thanks for opening this conversation, lisa. to me, the most important thing about osonos is that it is our chance to practice what we preach, open to and in the world. in recent years, it seems to me that we have strayed from our core practice in two important ways: scarcity and design. perhaps

WOSonOS -and- future years and locations [long]

2008-08-24 Thread Lisa Heft
Hello, dear colleagues - Get yourself a cup of tea (or other beverage of your choice) as this is a long message... First, thank you for your patience as we work to complete the WOSonOS 2008 Book of Proceedings for distribution. We are just waiting for a few more individuals who had wanted