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

[douglas germann]

Michael--

Lisa Heft facilitated the main open space at the GSUSA convention in
Indianapolis October 30, 2008. Lisa and Christine and Gabriel, do I have
the date right?

			:- Doug.



On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 13:37 -0600, 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?
> 
> 
> 
> --
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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:
>         Bye Bye
>         
>         Harrison Owen
>         7808 River Falls Drive
>         Potomac, Maryland   20854
>         Phone 301-365-2093
>         Skype hhowen
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>         Personal website www.ho-image.com
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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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