SV: interactive organizations gathering in istanbul-the story-my story

Thu Dec 7 13:40:05 PST 2006

On Dec 7, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Eva P Svensson wrote:

Funda,

Thank you for working soo hard to open up, to introduce OST and to  
bring the gift of self organization to your country! I am positive  
that you will see the fruits and results of all your hard work and  
the energy that you have invested in this. I know that it will come.

All the best and big hug

:o)

Eva

Bästa hälsningar

Eva P Svensson
EPS Human Invest AB
"Verksamhetsutveckling genom människor skapar långsiktigt välmående  
företag och organisationer!"
Anåsbergsvägen 22, 439 34  ONSALA

Tfn: 0300-615 05, Mobil: 0706-89 85 50
eva at epshumaninvest.se,  www.epshumaninvest.se

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Ämne: interactive organizations gathering in istanbul-the story-my story

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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