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

Sun Nov 29 13:26:53 PST 2009

Dear Michael H,
what you call an OSI in Germany is nothing like the OSI USA or OSI 
Canada. In my nomenclature there are "associations" (thats what they are 
called in the OS World Map after a thorough discussion) and boscop (a 
registered coop but not a not-for-profit, in fact we would very much 
like more "profit")is an "association" such as the OSIs are 
"asscociations". There is no OSI in Germany.
There seems to be a formally chartered OSI in France, I am not sure 
whether it is "not for profit". The status of "not-for-profit" in 
Germany is very hard to get...and I imagine thats also true for other EU 
countries.
What I would really like is a figure on how many full-time OS 
facilitators are there on our planet...meaning people that make a living 
just by facilitating OST-events and nothing else.
For a while there was such a creature in Germany but now that I am 
retired and get Social Security payments I no longer fit that description.
Here is another tidbit: The german language yahoo group started on 
February 3, 2002...it presently has 233 members mostly from Germany, 
Austria and Switzerland but also a bunch of German speaking colleagues 
from France, Spain, The Netherlands, Poland and other countries....there 
are 3497 messages in its archive plus a bunch of pictures and links (one 
to the Hungarian os community).

Greetings from Berlin
mmp

Michael Herman wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Michael Herman
> Michael Herman Associates
> 
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> 
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> Bye Bye
>>
>> Harrison Owen
>> 7808 River Falls Drive
>> Potomac, Maryland   20854
>> Phone 301-365-2093
>> Skype hhowen
>> Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
>> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org
>> Personal website www.ho-image.com
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Dirk
>> Riehle
>> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 1:43 PM
>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>> Subject: Open Space Tech article on Wikipedia marked as spam, being readied
>> for "speedy deletion"
>>
>> Subject line says it all, article is here:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
>>
>> Dirk
>>
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Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
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mmpanne at boscop.org
www.boscop.org

Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 465 resident Open 
Space Workers in 72 countries working in a total of 140 countries worldwide
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