2nd Telephone conference call: Worldwide OS Institute Conversations and WOSonOS

Wed Apr 25 14:14:04 PDT 2007

Dear OS-listers

I´ve just posted the notes from our 2nd Telephone conversation on WOSonOS to
the Wiki. We had a great meeting again. Some highlights include:

*	San Francisco offering to host WOSonOS 2008
*	What options are there for 2009 – Taiwan was mentioned...are they
getting ready??
*	Berlin / Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg expressed interest for 2010
*	Some ideas regarding the decisionmaking process were discussed – we
propose the decisionmaking to go on as before – at the yearly physical
gathering.
*	..and some actions taken

For the full notes we welcome you to visit
http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?WorldOSonOS  

For some more background, I´ve attached the first report that Larry did last
month below. You may also scroll further down at the Wiki workspace for full
notes from the first telephone conversation.

AND there are still some available seats in Kiev – so come join us IRL (in
real life) in a few weeks time!

At the keyboards

Thomas Herrmann

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Från: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] För Larry Peterson
Skickat: den 7 mars 2007 22:37
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Ämne: Worldwide OS Institute Conversations and WOSonOS

Dear OSLIST folks

As some of you are aware, contacts from three Open Space Institutes, myself
(Larry - Canada), Karen Davis (USA) and Brian Bainbridge (AU & NZ) initiated
a conference call among contacts from similar groups across the world.  We
wanted to test the idea of this form of conversation with an initial focus
on supporting the Worldwide Open Space on Open Space.  We see these
conversations as a complimentary to the other forms of conversation going on
across Open Space World – OSLIST, openspaceworld web sites, worldmap,
OSonline, OSonOS events and travels by individuals.  In Canada and the US we
had found regular telephone conferences a great way to connect.  

We invited people from the institutes or groups of which we were aware and
who responded to our inquiries.  See our definition of groups/institutes
below in this post.  We did ask around a bit and informed Harrison.  We did
meet in English.  You will see later that we hope to find more contacts from
groups to join us through this posting.

So, on February 22nd, contacts from groups in Australia, Canada, USA,
Germany, Haiti, Sweden, UK, Taiwan and Ukraine had an “energizing” worldwide
call.  The interest was there for those from Denmark, Russia, Estonia, and
Isreal but they were not able to join.  Some were up till 1:00 am their time
and others had to get up at 5:00 am.  For the most part, the hours were
reasonable for the rest.

The full notes and list of participants from that call are now posted for
you to read at http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?WorldOSonOS 

In quick summary, we agreed to support the growth of the variety of emergent
OSonOSs and want to continue to support one, face to face, annual WOSonOS –
Worldwide Open Space on Open Space.  Kiev is the next such worldwide event
and we agreed to support it better.  The Institutes and groups want to
provide more guidance and support to WOSonOS in the future.  This includes
proposing a 2-3 year advanced planning cycle, knowledgeable and experienced
local planning capacity, and alternating events between Europe, North
America and Other locations (for the moment).  We plan to continue these
calls among groups/institutes to help hold the space for worldwide open
space.

Our strategy included specific ways to more actively recruit fort the Kiev
WOSonOS in our groups, a conference call before Kiev to develop proposals
for the next 2-3 OSonOS locations and to address other possible items like a
worldwide newsletter.  We added Thomas Herrmann (Sweden) to the co-inviter
group. 

We want to add contacts from other institutes or groups to our list for the
next call in early April.  If you are part of such an institute or group
(see below) please let us know.  Or, if you are part of a group of three or
more who intend to form an institute or group in the next few months contact
us as well.  The free conference call centre is in the USA.  We encourage
the use of calling cards to keep costs down.  If your group wants you and
one other to join the call, please send the particulars about you and your
group to Karen J Davis kdavis at concentric.net who sets up the calls or send
any questions to me, Larry Peterson larry at spiritedorg.com 

 “We see OSIs or similar groups as those who tend to have country meetings,
OSonOS type events, “stammtishes”, some form of group decision making, with
a goal to support the development of Open Space (Technology) in their
country or region.  Some are incorporated and others registered to allow for
bank accounts. They are beyond one person’s company or consulting practice.”

Keep opening wonder and power full spaces.

Larry

Larry Peterson

Associates in Transformation

Toronto, ON, Canada

416.653.4829

 <mailto:larry at spiritedorg.com> larry at spiritedorg.com  

 <http://www.spiritedorg.com> www.spiritedorg.com 

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