interactive organizations gathering in istanbul-the story-my story

[yana at demenko.info]

Dear Funda,

Thank you for your story and sorry for not supporting you by my  
participation in this event!

I think this is a great precedent for Turkey. After all I'm sure that  
it is very brave of you to become an initiator of such a new topic  
for your society! Congratulations Funda! And even do not try to give up!

I had also a chance to observe how productive small group can work.  
Your story remind me past Ukrainian OS Learning Exchange. After  
investing a lot of time and some money we got only 6 participants and  
3 of them were Germans! What was a fun to participate in this event  
=) Just imagine ... Crimea Island, Tatarian hotel, German  
participants, English language as working - all that we called  
Ukrainian (!!!) Learning Exchange ;-)

Hugs and warm greetings from misty Kyiv!

Yana Demenko
GURT Resource Center for NGO Development
[post] P.O.Box 126, Kyiv 01025, Ukraine
[e-mail] yana at demenko.info; yana at gurt.org.ua
[web] www.gurt.org.ua



On Dec 3, 2006, at 6:54 PM, 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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