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

[Michael Herman]

good on the sweden chartering, thomas.  i'll fix that in my notes.

and sticking with what we can document and cite in wikipedia, i decided to
go with 5 as the smallest, rather than try to explain the finer points of
the practice!  wikipedia is not going to understand how a meeting
methodology can work in groups of "0" to 5000, i think <grin>

thanks, m


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On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Thomas Herrmann <
thomas at openspaceconsulting.com> wrote:

>  Hi Michael
>
> Thanks for these statistics!!
>
>
>
> A couple of suggested additions/corrections.
>
> 1.      OSI Sweden is also a registered non-profit organization.
>
> 2.      I actually think that Lisa Heft followed through with a smaller
> OS-meeting – a record hard to break.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Thomas Herrmann
>
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>
>
> 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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> Michael Herman
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> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Bye Bye
>
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> Subject line says it all, article is here:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
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