interactive organizations gathering in istanbul-the story-my story

[Beverley Neff]

Hi Funda,

Thank you so much for your account of the IAO gathering. Your hard work 
and commitment inspires and reassures me as I prepare for a two-day 
Open Space here on Saturna Island, Canada, in early March. OS is a 
foreign concept to this community of 300 so all I can do is invite them 
to experience being together in this creative, connecting way. Who 
knows who will come? Who knows why we are called to do this? These 
first steps at sharing a new way of working together will have 
consequences we cannot imagine. It is the doing of it that matters. 
Congratulations!

Beverley Neff
Saturna Island, Canada

On Dec 3, 2006, at 8:54 AM, Funda Oral wrote:

> Here is the story-MY story of Interactive Organizations Gathering in 
> Istanbul.
>  
> Jo and Michael had asked me if i would like to host 3rd IAO 
> gathering in November 2005,
> i had accepted and started thinking about it.
>  
> I had been exchanging thoughts, ideas, suggestions with many friends 
> from the OSlist 
> in and outside the list and with many friends around me since January 
> 2006.
>  
> In April 2006  i started preparing the invitation. Can Uludag made the 
> pictures.
>  
> You can still have a look at the invitation on the turkish ost web 
> site : www.acikalanteknolojisi.com
>  
> Starting from June and until September 2006 i worked on the text of 
> invitation, exchanging ideas
> with various friends.
>  
> In September 1000 invitations have been printed.
>  
> From september till the event ( 24-26 nov.) i disributed invitations 
> by post and by e-mail. 
>  
> I sent invitations by post to everybody who heard about the event and/ 
> or who heard about ost 
> from me. I distributed them to cafees, to universities, to friends, 
> relatives etc. In total
> i distributed around 700 printed invitations and more then 1000 
> invitations including the ones i sent by e-mail.
>  
> A school friend who runs a public relations company helped me to 
> announce the event through the
> media. An interview with me about ost was published in a business 
> newspaper. In adddition, an annoucement
> about IAO event has been published on several news web 
> sites, magazines and newspapers.
>  
> In september i visited the multinational company that Gail also was 
> referring to in her message. I knew how much
> OST contributed to their work ( i didn't work there with ost but i 
> knew someone who was in charge of the use of ost).
> I asked them to be the sponsor of this event and/ or to paticipate in 
> the event.
>  
> Unfortunately they couldn't support the event financially, 
> they couldn't participate in the event neither.
>  
> 1 week ago from the event i heard that mmp and jo couldn't participate.
>  
> There were few people who had registered to the gathering.
>  
> I extended a final invitation to all my close friends saying 
>  
> " I gave you too much headache with my obsession to this thing called 
> ost, now i invite you to take part in iao istanbul
> so that you can experience it. I owe you this invitation as i took 
> your time and energy. Moreover i need your
> support. The door will be open come whenever you want to. It's better 
> if you are there at least for the opening.
> Please feel free to join us and don't worry if you can not"
>  
> Around 50 people were confirmed they would be there at least for the 
> opening.
>  
> 25 showed up at the opening. The others: someome had forgetten, some 
> had crises at work, some had other things to do,
> some couldn't come because of  traffic.....whatever
>  
> I just said few words as the sponsor. Mia opened the space wonderfully.
>  
> Then perfect!.....they started raising up issues so quickly and such 
> deep issues and questions!
>  
> There is no word to describe my feelings about being with all these 
> people who are very important to me and to my life in an
> ost meeting. 
>  
> We were 13 at the closing session. Everbody came up with many projects 
> and ideas.      
>  
> At the closing, i told about YOUR support , i told them how much i 
> felt your eyes
> were watching us and your hearts were beating with ours during the 
> event.     
>  
> I invested one year of time for the event.
>  
> I invested around 3500 euro.
>  
> I did this because i believe in OST and i aslo believe in the 
> power and use of  the
> "InterActive Organizations" as a concept.
>  
> The pictures will be uploaded to some web site, i will later share 
> them with you.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> All the best,
> Funda
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