Open Space Tech article on Wikipedia marked as spam, being readied for "speedy deletion"

Sun Nov 29 13:11:51 PST 2009

Michael:

I would not trust the number of facilitators based on the world wide OST map, as many facilitators refuse to be there, but mainly because any person can include herself in the map, even if she only heard about OST in a bar, and is interested in paying the required fee or ask for the reduced one to be there. I suspect that same of the same people that are always editing the OST Wikipedia entry (making it worse), may have included themselves in the map, as there is no control.[I am not saying that some control should be imposed – only that it is not reliable measure of the number of OST facilitators.

I don't know also in how many countries there are local (and not only foreign) OST practitioners, but, for the same reason, I don't know if your source in reliable (and, by the way, that source refers now "140 active OST countries")

In what concerns the number of Institutes that are effectively "formal, government-chartered, non-profit organizations" please include Portugal in the list. But I think your list should be revised, as there are probably others. 

Regards

Artur

--- On Sun, 11/29/09, Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com> wrote:

From: Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Open Space Tech article on Wikipedia marked as spam, being readied for "speedy deletion"
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Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 11:37 AM

i've wanted to ask you all to help me build out a list of statistics, a sort of open space tech "by the numbers".  i was going to make this part of the osw site, but it might come in very handy in posting as part of this wikipedia article.

here are some examples, please check my math and add any other interesting numbers:

-the first ost meeting happened in 1985 at the symposium for organization transformation (OT)
-a total of 20 OT symposia were held annually, that last 19 of them were run "in open space"
-ost meetings have now happened in 165 countries, as listed at openspaceworldmap.org

-there are 469 facilitators listed in the openspaceworldmap.org
-the worldwide open space on open space practitioner conference has been annually since 1993
-the wosonos conference has been held in 8 different countries 
-an email group, called OSLIST, for practitioners worldwide was started in 1996.
-as of december 2009, there are more than 26,400 messages in the OSLIST publicly searchable archives.
-OSLIST membership in december 2009 stood at 662.
-there are __ open space institutes active around the world.
-three open space institute groups (US, Canada, and Germany) are formal, government-chartered, non-profit organizations
-openspaceworld.org offers (or links to) explanations of open space technology in more than 20 different languages.
-harrison owen has authored 8 books on the process.
-harrison owen estimates that there have been more than 100,000 applications of open space since 1985.
-the smallest open space meeting commonly reported was a meeting run by harrison owen, for 5 participants (when 7 others were snowed out)
-the largest open space meetings commonly reported were in germany, 2108 participants, facilitated by harrison owen and michael pannwitz (theme?) and ____ participants at a girl scouts event in _______, facilitated by christine whitney sanchez and (others?)

what other numbers might we offer?  and did i get these right?

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Subject line says it all, article is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology

Dirk

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