angry feedback
Yana Demenko
yana at demenko.info
Tue Apr 10 00:54:13 PDT 2007
Dear OS Community,
WOSonOS hosting team have got a very interesting feedback from Tree
Fitzpatrick.
I'm not going to comment it but I feel responsibility to share this
mail with all of you.
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have ...
Best regards,
Yana Demenko
[e-mail] yana at demenko.info
[post] p.o.box 4B, Kyiv-1, 01001, Ukraine
[web] www.demenko.info
[skype] yana_demenko
Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Tree Fitzpatrick [mailto:therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:21 AM
> To: GURT Resource Centre for NGO Development
> Subject: Re: Invitation to 15th Worldwide Open Space on Open Space
>
>
>
> I have absolutely no interest in attending the OSonOS in Kiev this
> year. I am writing to tell you why I am not interested. And I am
> writing to complain that you have sent me this invitation. Where
> did you get my email? You did not have my permission to use it.
>
> I was disappointed that people at OSonOS in Moscow hijacked this
> important international gathering of OS practitioners from around
> the world and insisted on taking the event to Kiev this year. The
> OSonOS gathering belongs to practitioners around the world and it
> has norms and traditions that you folks refused to honor when you
> decided to 'steal' the event to Kiev this year. A key tradition of
> OSonOS International has been to move around the world.
>
> I understand that one of your organizers was very aggressive in
> Moscow, insisting on forcing OSonOS to Kiev. This makes me angry
> and under no circumstances would I attend an event that was
> demanded like this: I feel like coming would be tantamount to
> giving in to a child after he had a tantrum. You folks in Kiev
> were free to steal the event. . . but you could never win my
> support of it.
>
> And, parenthetically, as it happens, Raffi did something similar at
> Halifax OSonOS in 2005. The group was leaning towards having
> OSonOS 2006 in Scotland and Raffi stood up and said "I don't care
> what you people want, there is going to be an international OSonOS
> in Moscow this year" and the Halifax group gave in to Raffi. I
> mention this because now I am wondering if the Slavic world is
> littered with bullies who think that imposing their will on people
> is good collaboration?
>
> I also wonder if whoever that guy was, it was someone from Kiev who
> was in Moscow at last year's conference, really gives a shit about
> the rest of the world of OS practitioners. I wonder if this guy
> realizes that senior OS practitioners all over the world have heard
> about this behavior.
>
> I venture to guess that you are going to have a very low turnout at
> this event. I suspect lots of people feel the way I do, that the
> conference was birthed in an atmosphere of coersion, which is NOT
> open space at all, is it?
>
> Please don't send me any more emails. I have reported you to my
> email provider as spam.
>
>
> --
> Love rays,
> Tree Fitzpatrick
>
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>
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> Augustine, "I want you to be," without being able to give any
> particular reason for such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation.
> -- Hannah Arendt
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