SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009 and Then.......

Sun Sep 13 10:15:02 PDT 2009

After taking michael's wise counsel in 2001 Laurel Doersam and I found  
one less thing to do for the social part of osonos 9. We simply phoned  
up a nearby pub and told them a large group would be arriving to drink  
and eat together. Everyone paid their own bill and the pub was  
delighted to have a crowd on a Sunday night. They even set aside a  
whole section for us to mingle in.

Chris

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On 2009-09-13, at 5:46 AM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Michael is obviously a man (person) after my own heart. I certainly  
> enjoy all the bells and whistles that happen at OSONOS, and deeply  
> appreciate the effort that goes into the whole affair. That said, I  
> really do believe everybody is working much too hard. Having done 6  
> of these critters (the first four OSONOS’s and 2 more OSONOS’s by  
> the Sea) I can tell you that total planning time for the first one m 
> ight have been 10 minutes – consisting mostly of deciding if I reall 
> y wanted to do it and what the theme might be. I wanted to roll and  
> the theme was obvious: “Opening Space in our lives and our world: Is 
> sues and Opportunities.”  That theme worked pretty well which thereb 
> y reduced the planning time to “0” for the next 5 gatherings.  
> Logistics and promotion took a little longer, maybe 24 hours total.  
> As for the “Conference Fee” – I found the $25 was more than  
> sufficient. Actually for the last two OSONOS’s I ended up sending ab 
> out half of the collected fee to Lisa for the Access Queen’s Fund. S 
> o anyhow it is simple and it is doable. Most of all Have Fun! And of 
>  course, think of one more thing NOT to do.
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> Michael Herman
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> 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.
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> m
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> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Eva P Svensson <eva at epshumaninvest.se 
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> Dear Lisa and host team to-be…
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> 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!
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> Have fun!
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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...
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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?
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> I look forward to hearing your stories,
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> Lisa
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