[OSList] largest ost?

[Harold Shinsato]

Hi Raffi, Lisa,

The 1400+ Open Space event Christine Whitney Sanchez facilitated for the 
Girl Scouts was documented in a video on the Open Space Institute's website.

http://osius.org/content/girl-scouts-national-convention-large-open-space

     Regards,
     Harold

On 9/23/14 2:59 PM, Lisa Heft - wrote:
> Hi, Raffi, hi, friends, and a deep bow to you, Harold for your amazing 
> work behind the scenes to help the mechanics of this list support 
> incredible communication and sharing.
>
> Mark Matlock and I did several face-to-face OS events in Los Angeles, 
> Cincinnati and Atlanta, USA - the largest of which was, if I recall 
> correctly, 3500.
> I have done quite a number of them at the 2400+ level. Peggy - I 
> forget what your largest may have been? Michael P - was it 2108? 
> Christine Whitney Sanchez - your largest? I name these folks because I 
> am trying to recall who are my OSLIST colleagues who have done this 
> sort of large-group OS...
>
> One thing I learned quite a bit from was the collective work done by 
> Christine Whitney Sanchez, Gabriel Shirley and other amazing folks at 
> the 51st Girl Scout Congress - how to weave dialogue (of various forms 
> - different processes with different groups / amounts of people for 
> different specific reasons) into an 11,000 person event. I was *so* 
> honored to be on that team, doing among other things an Open Space 
> meeting of I think it may have been 780 people. Verbal dialogue, 
> internal dialogue... Open Space, World Cafe, story looms...lovely 
> stuff. Such rich learning, in the pre-work, in the conference, and 
> upon reflection...
>
> I don't know how many people Kai Degner (then the mayor of 
> Harrisonburg - yes - Harrison...burg... Virginia... ) had 
> participating in his city-wide OS forums...
>
> Lisa
>
> On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Harold Shinsato <harold at SHINSATO.COM 
> <mailto:harold at SHINSATO.COM>> wrote:
>
>> Hi OSList,
>>
>> Raffi's email below triggered complaints from Google about Raffi's 
>> "Unauthenticated email from yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com>" that 
>> unsubscribed at least 130 gmail and googlemail addresses from the 
>> OSList. I've never seen a problem like this in all the years I've 
>> been managing the OSList. Hopefully it is resolved. I think I've 
>> added you all back. But it seems Raffi's email didn't make it through 
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>>
>> Raffi asked me to resend it. Hopefully this will go through.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Harold
>>
>> Subject:
>> [OSList] largest ost?
>> From:
>> Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1970 at yahoo.com>
>> Date:
>> 9/23/14 10:39 AM
>> To:
>> OSlist <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
>> CC:
>> Michael Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>, 
>> "peggy at opencirclecompany.com" <peggy at opencirclecompany.com>, 
>> "virtus at mail.ru" <virtus at mail.ru>
>>
>> friends,
>>
>> my friend and colleague Misha Pronin in Moscow is wondering what is 
>> the largest ost event ever and where did it take place?
>> thanks!
>>
>> laramtsa,
>>
>> raffi
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