SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......
Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
wendy at xe.net
Sun Sep 13 09:59:08 PDT 2009
Thank you, Michael, for sharing this. The increasingly competitive,
and it feels to me, exclusive, nature of the process for WOSonOS has
saddened me. It felt like it was moving away from the heart and soul
of what OS is all about. What you have said here really resonates for
me. (And in a world facing so many crises, a WOSonOS day with many
local meetings with virtual connection points, feels more responsible
and responsive to emergent needs.) I remember a story of how someone
spent more than year planning a meeting and after that experience was
inspired to invent something called Open Space so nobody ever had to
go through that again. Anybody else remember a story like that? ;)
Blessings,
Wendy
On 12-Sep-09, at 10:56 PM, Michael Herman wrote:
> sheila isakson and i hosted osonos7 in chicago. our main model for
> that was osonos4, hosted by harrison. and my counsel to every host-
> to-be i've talked with since then is, first and foremost, to
> remember that this is open space we're talking about, so keep
> looking for things to not do.
>
> we booked a single meeting room, where free coffee was available in
> an adjoining room, plenty of public space nearby for breakouts to
> spill into, lots of restaurants in the immediate vicinity, close to
> downtown sightseeing places, and moderately-priced hotel rooms on
> site. (a hampton inn in downtown chicago). we pointed invitees to
> a budget hostel option a few blocks away as a cheaper sleeping
> place. after that, it was nothing but markers, postits, paper,
> bells, and computers. simply open space. sliding scale, same as
> harrison, i think, $25 to $200. we lined up a few plates of hors
> d'ouvres for the evening before, which was simple hanging out,
> watching people trickle in from the airports, tipping a few drinks
> from the hotel bar, and saying hellos. i don't remember that the
> total prep took more than a day or two, spread over several months.
>
> i've always thought that part of the job of hosting osonos was to
> make it look just that easy, the way harrison did at osonos4, to
> show (especially for new practitioners) just how simple it was to
> run a big deal in a little bit of open space. a simple invitation:
> a single meeting room. some basic supplies. and an opening
> briefing. everything else is strictly optional, and less is still
> more.
>
> there is the bit about registrations and such, but i always thought
> that was just a lot of chatting with friends from all over, and
> keeping a simple list of who said they were coming. hosting was
> great fun. and great learning. i'd recommend it to anyone.
>
> i know there's a certain charge out of naming one "world" osonos
> each year, but i do wish we as a community made it easier for more
> than one of these to happen at once. i've always wanted to see
> simultaneous events on several continents. i wish we could have
> less emphasis on making a show of this place or that place (and
> choosing only one of them) and more emphasis on who (even if it's
> many people) is interested in stepping into the simplest
> responsibilities of hosting and opening. and then if we have many
> hosts, they can work together on sharing marketplace wall postings
> and how to post all the notes into teh same online place. i think
> with skype and other tech we'd now have easy ways to have video of
> world-around breakout sessions, where small groups on several
> continents could be meeting face-to-face in single sessions. i
> suppose this strains the traditions a bit, but i think it'd be worth
> trying, as further experiment and demonstration of what's now
> possible in an increasingly open space world.
>
> m
>
>
> --
>
> Michael Herman
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>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Eva P Svensson <eva at epshumaninvest.se
> > wrote:
> Dear Lisa and host team to-be…
>
> Being one of the presenters for WOSonOS in San Francisco on behalf
> of Lisa and her host team – I can just ad – if you are not able to
> be there in person – make sure that those who represent you have a
> good “show”/offer – because then it is so much easier to be the
> stand-in. Lisa had provide us – Thomas and me – with a “whole show”
> J and it was so fun and it was easy to make the offer irresistible!
>
>
> Have fun!
>
> Hugs
>
> :o)
>
> Eva
>
>
> Bästa hälsningar
>
>
> Eva P Svensson
>
>
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> Från: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] För Lisa Heft
> Skickat: den 11 september 2009 17:56
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>
> Other memories of how Host Teams invited us to future WOSonOSs...
>
>
> Thomas Herrmann and Eva P Svensson (Sweden) inviting on my behalf in
> Kiev - they got the whole group participating being the San Franco -
> and- they made a little doll to represent me
>
>
> Brian Bainbridge and Viv McWaters creating a map of Australia on the
> floor and Brian standing on different areas in Australia to give us
> a sense for the diverse country and culture, while we all snacked on
> candies with koalas on them
>
>
> For those of you who have been to past WOSonOSs - what else do you
> remember from lovely invitations to host WOSonOS by other
> international colleagues?
>
>
> I look forward to hearing your stories,
>
>
> Lisa
>
>
>
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