SV: angry feedback

Tue Apr 10 07:25:08 PDT 2007

Dear Ukrainian team

I enjoyed OSonOS in Halifax as well as Moscow and am looking forward to
enjoy W(orldwide)OSonOS in Kiev...and whatever will be joyful after that!

I do expect the 15th annual OSonOS to be most succesful!

If some of you may have missed it, there is currently some folks working on
improving what is already great. The story unfolds at:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?WorldOSonOS I guess there will
be some exciting topics i Kiev around these issues.

Warm regards & best wishes and thanks already to our Ukrainian team (I do
know what it takes to organize an event like this! OSonOS 2003 in Swenmark)

Thomas Herrmann, Sweden

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Skickat: den 10 april 2007 09:54
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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]  <http://www.demenko.info> www.demenko.info 

[skype] yana_demenko 

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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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