website thank you's, updates, invites...

[Jo Toepfer]

Dear Michael,

thank you for including the OS WorldScape into the front page of
www.openspaceworld.org. I hope this will increase the traffic and the
number of users to depict the reality in a more complete way.

greetings from Berlin
Jo
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Michael Herman schrieb:
> hello all,
> 
> this just to report a bit on progress at www.openspaceworld.org this last
> year.  please spread the word as you're able, links in websites and email
> signatures and such.  every link helps.  and now...
> 
> FIRST, a big thanks to those who've made financial contributions!  ...brian
> rogers, elwin guild, agneta setterwell, tim lannan, siona van dijk, sheila
> isakson, at least one anonymous donor, and osi-usa are the ones who paid 
> the
> bills to keep all those pixels lit last year.
> 
> AND another big thanks to everyone who has posted photos of open space
> events at www.flickr.com/photos/tags/openspacetech ...we have collected
> almost 2400 pictures in the last year!
> 
> And a very special thank you to Ted Ernst, Chris Corrigan, Ashley Cooper,
> Wendy Farmer-O'Neill, Doug Germann, and Raffi Aftandelian, and Christy
> Lee-Engel who've helped keep the blog going this year -- and did some 
> really
> great work in conference calls and experimental blogging to create an
> administrative structure for the site that is the beginning of my being 
> able
> to turn over the technical keys to the community at large.  More on that as
> the year goes on, I reckon.
> 
> Thanks, too, to Esther Matte, who has just finished a new French 
> translation
> of my Working in Open Space: A Guided Tour article.  That will be posted
> later this week.  Check the weblog at www.openspaceworld.org/news or the
> French section of the site for the link.
> 
> THIS YEAR... we have also made it easier to find info on OSonOS events,
> added a couple of podcast recordings of openings, blogged some juicy bits
> from the OSLIST, added new links to places like the WorldMap and 
> WorldScape,
> cleaned up the ResourcesArchives...
> 
> AND we have opened a new space for your comments about the site, a single
> page where general comments can be posted, events announced, news reported,
> blog items submitted for posting, as well as specific comments about
> individual blog posts can also be skimmed.  so this year we will collect
> comments!  www.openspaceworld.org/news/comments
> 
> AND we've been making more and more links to OST practitioners you might
> never have heard of, but who are indeed out there opening space and 
> blogging
> about it elsewhere.  Ted's been keeping an eye on technorati blog search
> engine and posting links in the blog.
> 
> AND there have been some rumblings about starting a series of conference
> call forums, as well.  Find Ashley Cooper if you'd like to help that get
> started.  Chris Corrigan has been talking about doing individual interviews
> for some years now... so if you see him someplace, give him a nudge on that
> one.
> 
> AND we've done some sprucing of the bookstore along the way too, the latest
> update being the addition of Peggy Holman's 2d edition Change Handbook 
> which
> is now on sale at www.openspaceworld.org/bookstore
> 
> SO... please do have a look at what's happening at
> www.openspaceworld.org...and buy Peggy's book ...and post some
> comments to things...
> 
> Maybe this year we can even move some of our juicier questions and
> conversations out where others can see them easier, in blog posts and
> comments at www.openspaceworld.org .  Maybe we'll figure out how to have an
> OSonOS in the Weblog!
> 
> Finally, please let me know if you want to join the blog posting team, we
> probably have room to take on a few more this year.
> 
> Next updates, if needed, might come later this year, maybe April or May...
> 
> Many Thanks and Happy New Year,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> ...geez, I didn't realize how much happened this year... and I guess i got
> excited... i busted right out of  lowercase!
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Jo Toepfer, boscop eg
Dolziger Str. 40, 10247 Berlin
++49-30-42018000
www.boscop.de    www.joconsult.de

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