OSONOS Hither and Yon (a little on the long side)

[Glory Ressler]

Thank you Funda - for your support.
Glory

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Funda Oral" <fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: OSONOS Hither and Yon (a little on the long side)


> "Gosh, now I hope I'm not the only OSonOS challenged among us... lol"
>
> Glory- i guess we are all challenged in one way or other.
>
> I try to use these new tools such as " affirmation ". I say " yes!!!, 
> possible"
> believing that life will do whatever it can do.
>
> At the end, "Whatever will happen will be the only thing that can "...i 
> ask for 100%
> but if life can give me 30%...it's ok as well.
>
> cheers,
> funda
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Glory Ressler" <on.the.edge at sympatico.ca>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:32 AM
> Subject: Re: OSONOS Hither and Yon (a little on the long side)
>
>
>> As someone who's schedule and/or financial situation has variously 
>> prevented my attending an OSonOS event in person -
>> I LOVE the idea of holding multiple OSonOS's in various global locales 
>> and having all linked electronically
>> OR  the capacity to hold an OSonOS whenever, wherever - so long as 
>> reports are shared, etc...
>>
>> If possible, please keep the OSonOS space 'open enough' so that there are 
>> multiple entry points and plenty of room to manoeuvre once inside - for 
>> the challenged members such as myself...
>>
>> Gosh, now I hope I'm not the only OSonOS challenged among us... lol
>>
>> Glory :-)
>> p.s. at 1st glance, I thought Ho's subject line read OSONOS Hitler 
>> Youth... I'm in bi-focal denial and resistance mode currently - 
>> lol.Yikes - what a challenge keeping that space open would be! ;-)
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net>
>> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:29 PM
>> Subject: OSONOS Hither and Yon (a little on the long side)
>>
>>
>> Several days ago I sent a short note to some folks everybody will 
>> recognize
>> as "regulars" on the LIST - all of which means they will need no
>> introduction. Since sending that note, an interesting conversation has 
>> been
>> evolving and it seemed to me that others might wish to join in. And so I
>> have engaged in a little cutting and pasting - what follows is the major
>> pieces in order of their appearance. Which of course, is the reverse of 
>> the
>> way things usually show up here. But reverse perversity being my nature -
>> what else would you expect. And it is all about OSONOS(s).
>> **************************************************************************
>>
>> Maybe I am getting cabin fever - been raining a lot, but I have been
>> thinking that it is about time to do an OSONOS in North America. The over
>> the water stuff is great, but I am a little worried that we have 
>> neglected
>> the homefolks. Or something. Seems like folks were pretty well cued up 
>> for
>> OSONOS/ International (Moscow, Israel, Istanbul ???) and I certainly 
>> don't
>> want to compete with all of that. Myself, I won't make Moscow (Maine and
>> all), and who knows about the rest - but something closer to home would 
>> work
>> well, I thought. I even went so far as to check out a conference center
>> right near Beautiful Camden, Maine. Nice place for 50-75 people and if we
>> were to do this in the middle/end of September (say 2007) we could have 
>> the
>> whole thing for $500 a day with coffee and lunch for an additional $18 
>> per
>> person - or (for 2 days) about $52 total fee. There are plenty of nearby
>> motels/B&Bs/hotels in virtually every price range - and at that time of
>> year, deals can be made. What do you think?
>>
>> Harrison
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> Count me in.  Anything to help Harrison cure a case of cabin fever - 
>> because
>> I don't like any of the rest of you at all!
>>
>> (H- do you need folks to front any cash?  I can help some.)
>>
>> xxoo
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> -- 
>> Ralph Copleman
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> thanks, harrison... and, you know, this is totally in line with what we
>> instigated last year in chicago and got repeated in texas this year, 
>> under
>> the usa banner... because i was thinking that the international, and even
>> canadian osi, communities had left the usa crowd a bit behind.  also, of
>> course, that was when our elections were coming up and we thought we 
>> might
>> just do some good in the run-up to that.  and that's just some of why i'd 
>> be
>> all for this north american thing.
>>
>> i don't know where i am in sept 2006, much less 2007, but there's just 
>> got
>> to be less commotion next year than this year, so chances are good i 
>> could
>> swing it.  are you saying 2007 would be in camden as a NAmer thing or 
>> *the*
>> international thing coming home to camden?  i still keep wondering about 
>> the
>> idea i floated in australia, to have a couple of these things 
>> simultaneously
>> and report all the notes into the same online place.  seems like a great 
>> way
>> to gather more local friends and pay less airfare expense.  maybe 
>> someday.
>> and camden in the meantime.
>>
>> M (herman)
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> OSONOS in Maine sounds great.  There would be lots of interest from 
>> Atlantic
>> Canada to Ontario, I'd bet.  What would be the relationship to the OSI 
>> USA
>> OSONOS events that have been going on?
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>
>> Larry Peterson
>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>> larry et al...
>>
>> i'm not sure that the usa osonos events ever really were osi usa events,
>> larry.  the first invitation was written by doug germann and i, though 
>> i'm
>> not sure if doug was yet a board member when that happened.  since then 
>> he's
>> joined and i've left the board, with a long period of overlap, but i'm 
>> not
>> sure that board affiliation is enough to make it an osi event.  maybe
>> somebody else remembers otherwise, and i could certainly be wrong in my 
>> own
>> memory.
>>
>> the events themselves, all two of them, were motivated by the same sense
>> harrison mentions, wondering if the homefront here hasn't been neglected.
>> at the time, we made it a usa event rather than north american because we
>> had elections coming up down here and we thought that osi canada was 
>> already
>> doing much more up that way.  so we thought we had some unique needs and
>> less attention being brought to them.
>>
>> i don't know if there is yet a third usa event planned for 2006.  no 
>> matter,
>> i'm sure it can easily slide right into the larger NA frame.
>>
>> Michael (herman)
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>>
>> This sounds fun...but we should think about the question it begs about 
>> the
>> whole OSonOS franchise.  If we start making this a North American 
>> meeting,
>> it would seem to me that either OSonOS would simply stay outside North
>> America (and be smaller) or that we may end up meeting in NA every year 
>> and
>> once in a while that meeting also becomes OSonOS.  Not a big discussion 
>> or
>> anyhting, just imagining what might happen
>>
>> Anyway, Maine sounds like a wonderful idea, and I'll put it near the top 
>> of
>> my "what might be possible this year" list.
>>
>> Cheers all,
>>
>> Chris (Corrigan)
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> thinking about the 'franchise' as chris puts it, i was thinking back in
>> marysville that it would be cool to have osonos happen simultaneously in
>> several locations, with all the notes posted to one place online.
>>
>> now that might or might not ever happen, but certainly it could be that
>> 'osonos' is a moveable but not annual feast, happening many places each
>> year.  in order to be an 'osonos' gathering it would only have to be
>> announced as such and then we'd want to see the proceedings posted 
>> somewhere
>> online, as well, so we could all peek in on the whole of it.  as long as 
>> we
>> can link all the invitations and proceedings together, which is easy, it 
>> is
>> arguably one grand ongoing event.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Michael Sounds good to me. OSONOS anywhere, anytime, anybody wants it - 
>> just
>> raise your hand and share the fun. And for sure online linkage must be 
>> part
>> of the package. In the past, I have done multi-site, simultaneous OS's 
>> and
>> it works like gang busters. No reason the whole OS community can't do the
>> same thing, and there might be some additional "pluses." For one thing it
>> could take away something of the "competitive edge" that occasionally
>> appears around THE ANNUAL OSONOS. It would also remove an aspect of the
>> Annual "do" which I personally find sometimes difficult and 
>> uncomfortable -
>> namely the decision as the where next to go. Last year in Halifax we 
>> spent
>> some time on this one. On balance I would guess that it was time well 
>> spent
>> in that we learned a lot about the capacity of that particular body of 
>> folks
>> to make an informed and difficult decision. However, the thought that the
>> assembled crew was making a decision for the "community as a whole" was a
>> stretch I thought. We were but a tiny part of that community, and I would
>> bet that less than 50% of those present in Halifax will show up in 
>> Moscow -
>> and of course they will be replaced by an equal or larger number of the
>> "right" people who care to come. In a way we have inadvertently converted
>> the annual OSONOS into a zero sum game with winners and losers dividing 
>> up a
>> finite pie. But the pie (spaceniks around the world) seems to be pretty 
>> much
>> infinite.  So why go through the agony (if it was that) if you don't have
>> to? Just OSONOS anywhere, anytime you care to - and those who care will
>> come. Could take us to a whole new (win/win) level! And I just made 
>> OSONOS
>> into a verb!
>>
>> OSONOS declined: --
>>
>> OSONOS
>> OSONUS
>> OSONUU
>> OSONME
>> OSON. . .
>>
>> And by the way - seems to me this discussion has become pretty juicy. 
>> Should
>> it be moved over to OSLIST?
>>
>> Harrison
>>
>>
>> ***************************************************************************
>>
>> There you have it folks - perhaps a little more than you wanted, but does 
>> it
>> shake any trees, ring any bells?
>>
>> ho
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