[OSList] The Access Queen Auction begins!!

Mon Sep 15 00:37:21 PDT 2014

Maybe the first email did not get through – with the attachment – so here it
is again minus the pic – and you will have to be there to see it in the
flesh (as it were
)

Jon

From: Jon Harvey [mailto:jon at jonharveyassociates.co.uk] 
Sent: 15 September 2014 08:12
To: 'World wide Open Space Technology email list'
Subject: The Access Queen Auction begins!!

Dear all

We already have two items in the auction:- 

·       Martin Röll’s ‘weird’ painting(s) (!)

·       Download from Chris Corrigan of Irish jigs & reels

To this I will be adding a 

·       Solar powered ‘Dancing Queen’ (see attached), and 

·       3 boxes of handmade and delicious Fudge from the Cornish peninsula
of England. 

See you all soon!

Very best wishes

Jon

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-----Original Message-----
From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of
Lisa Heft -
Sent: 12 September 2014 00:40
To: OSLIST
Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSONOS 2014: Access Queen spirit

Thank you all, dear friends, for carrying forward / channeling the spirit
and practice of Access Queen !

For those of you who are not familiar with this tradition:

At the WOSonOS in Vancouver in 2001 I began a passion project to support
diversity-access-inclusion for our annual WOSonOSs.

At that event, our lovely late colleague Laurel Doersam gave me the ‘nick
name’ of Access Queen. 

This year’s Access Queen project is a bit different than other years,
because usually there is a lot I do in concert with each year’s WOSonOS Host
Team - many months before the event itself and continuing into and after the
event. However I was unable to communicate with Jasmina and her Host Team -
so Jon and some of my other dear friends who have experienced in other years
what happens with Access Queen *at* the event are carrying the energy,
actions and traditions of Access Queen *into* this event.

A deep bow to you all!

Now I will straighten my tiara / crown because it became a little crooked on
my head during that deep bow.

Because the WOSonOS is happening very soon, I thank you Jon and others for
helping the Serbian team reach out to the other WOSonOS 2014 participants -
many of whom I assume are not on this OSLIST.

In my observation, most people attending an event come over land to that
event - so I am assuming there are many people attending who live in that
region. This means a lovely exchange of ideas and experiences *and* a lovely
exchange of items possible at the event. If the WOSonOS Host Team reaches
out to all registered participants before the event, everyone will have the
opportunity to pack along something lovely to sell to each other for the
Access Queen project.

What it is: 

At the event, we set up in the big OS room some tables for amazing beautiful
items of folk art, food, books, clothing and other amazing things from our
regions / villages / cultures. This is called the Global Village
Marketplace.

Each seller writes on an envelope what it is and how much they would like
people to pay for it.

Each buyer simply buys the item and places their money into that item’s
envelope. The sellers then collect those funds and give 100% or less of the
money raised into the Access Queen project.

Sometimes it is less than 100% because they are also raising some funds to
pay for their own travel expenses.

Also at the event, we set up tables for the Silent Auction. This is where
100% of the money raised definitely goes into the Access Queen project.

Each person offering an item writes a description on a little card - and all
throughout the WOSonOS everybody else writes in amounts, and higher amounts,
and higher amounts - and whoever hopes to win that item keeps visiting and
increasing the amount as much as they may afford to. Winners of those items
(top ‘bidders’) win the gift of paying that highest amount plus taking home
the item. All money goes to the Access Queen project.

These are two very lively areas of the big OST meeting room at the WOSonOS.

Jon, Karolina, Gerardo, Christine, Tova and our other dear friends will
collectively organize and maintain that area - a deep bow to you all.

After the WOSonOS, Jon & Friends will send me whatever money has been
raised. This is a ‘pay it forward’ to 2015 “Askers” and our support of
people we believe in but whom we may not yet even have met.

Also after the WOSonOS, the 2014 Host Team has the option / invitation to
first pay all their expenses and then forward whatever money they have
remaining to me to add to the Access Queen project - also paying-it-forward.

In this way, we are collectively able to support some people each year who
are the Askers - those who just need a little bit of resource (pocket money,
flexible registration fee, money to afford a dinner out with their
colleagues, and so on) - not ‘big ticket’ items such as airplane tickets but
small funds that help Askers - people of lower financial income - enjoy the
same access and inclusion as their colleagues at the event.

All money remaining in the project goes towards each future year.

And there are many many actions and resources besides money - this
fundraising is as much as a community action and awareness event as a money
thing. Other Access Queen resources and actions include attendees offering
the extra bed in their hotel to an Asker, language buddies, ride shares,
taking someone out to dinner, buying someone a book, and more.

Thank you for supporting this community, this project, and each other in
this way. 

I am sorry I will not be in person at this year’s WOSonOS, but you will I
suspect feel me there in spirit - in actions and words of community,
resource-sharing, invitation and love.

Lisa Heft

(also known as Access Queen)

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