mixing business and pleasure

Sun Aug 7 07:21:31 PDT 2005

Greetings all!
When I called Mikhail Pronin from the church phone while Harrison was speaking during the closing, Mikhail couldn't believe me.

When I reached Galina this morning, she also didn't believe me.

Judi, might you call this operating in the realm of disbelief?
Maybe this could be called almost understated giddiness.

Giddiness or not, but there's work to be done, joy to be had...

We've added a wiki page to facilitate the self-organization of OSonOS Mockba. This page also includes information about a google group devoted to OSonOS Mockba's self-organization.

This page can be found at http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceonOpenSpace2006

The page is below.

It is a huge honor and responsibility to be organizing this event! 

In gratitude, humility, and joy,
raffi

Describe the new page here. Welcome to the OSonOS-Moskva 2006 Page! 
This page is devoted to being a collector of resources, ideas, anything and everything that will facilitate making the self-organization of OSonOS-Moskva as self-organizing and joyful as possible. 

Please add, subtract, multiply, divide here as you see fit! 

A number of initial thoughts: 

1. Team make-up-- Interested in working on the self-organizing team? Just let us know, wherever you are. 

2. Fundraising-- We would like to make this event as accessible (in all the senses of the word, perhaps) to participants. If you have any ideas about how to make that happen, that would be great. Maybe you have old (funded or unfunded) grant applications for OSonOS or other OST-related events that we could use to edit, adapt in seeking funding for this event. We are interested right now first of all in finding funding for underrepresented and passionate OST community members and those who might be potentially interested in OST. 

In particular, right now this would mean community activists from around the former Soviet Union. This might include Central Asians, Chechen War veterans, ex or current Chechen rebels, refugees, human rights activists, disability activists, those working in children's and women's issues, and many many more. 

A related area is sponsorship. We are especially interested in drawing corporate interest, in particular Russia/NIS corporate sponsorship of this OSonOS. How might we make corporate support and sponsorship (and participation) both possible and self-organizing? 

3. Ideas about project management- some OST facilitators have already volunteered some tools to make the project management take place as seamlesslyy as possible. More ideas welcome. 

4. Holding space- it would be nice to hear who is setting the intention to hold space the organizing and happening of OSonOS-Moscow. E-mails sent to the addresses at the end of this page addressed to members of Intertraining would be welcome. 

5. Stories- one of the things that really helped to make the decision to come to Russia is that many had had a very positive experience of being in Russia. We would like to invite you to post those stories to the OST-listserv. Let's hear the stories-- good and not-so-good-- about Russia. So, we get a picture and can make an informed choice about OSonOS14?. 

6. Russia, NIS contacts- OST facilitators and other transformation of consciousness industry professionals and hobbyists stepped forward at the end of OSonOS13? and began volunteering their Russian contacts. Please, do put us in touch with those who you know in Russia. It's a big country! Many of us don't know each other! 

7. Electronic discussion list-- an electronic discussion list has been created to facilitate the self-organizing of OSonOS-Moskva. To sign up you will need to register at Google. 

The list's address is http://groups.google.ca/group/osonos2006. Once signed up, you can send mail to the group at osonos2006 at googlegroups.com 

If you need any help in signing up, please contact the team. 

8. Translation-- this OSonOS may likely be the first fully bilingual OSonOS event. Your thoughts, experiences, ideas, models about making this happen easily and seamlessly would be welcome. 

9. Coaching-- ongoing coaching of the self-organizing team is one of the meta-infrastructure elements that is key perhaps to making this another miraculous OSonOS. Your volunteering yourself as a mentor/coach would be welcome, whether electronically or by phone or ... 

10. Initial planning meetings- tentatively the first two meetings are scheduled for October. One will likely be an attempt at skype (computer-based phone conferencing) in Open Space. The second will be a 2 1/2 day OST meeting on organizing the OSonOS, to take place in Moscow. 

We would be interested in ideas about how to publicize widely the October OSonOSonOS? (and generate interest in participation in the OSonOS) to generate interest in the OSonOS itself, ideally so that in the OSonOSonOS? marketing material would be written about the power of OST. 

In gratitude, humility and joy, the OSonOS 2006 self-organizing team (all members of the professional association of trainers and consultants, Intertraining, www.intertraining.org) 

Galina Tsarkova, independent consultant and trainer, Moscow, Russia (gala_tsar_kova at mail.ru) Mikhail Pronin, Center for Virtualistics, Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia (virtus at mail.ru, www.cursus.ru) Raffi Aftandelian, essenceworks consulting group, Moscow, Russia (raffi at bk.ru) 

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