[OSList] An invitation for future invitations to WOSONOS

Sun Oct 11 10:11:35 PDT 2015

Dear Community,

I was happy for the opportunity to talk about the hosting process for 
the WOSonOSes in Kraków.

Pernilla gently reminded me to put my comments into this forum.
I do it now.

When I read though your proposal, Pernilla

I really like the idea:

 1. to post the ambition to host a WOSonOS on social media. We have to
    find the right place, where everybody has an access.
 2. to have a session about the next WOSonOS on a WOSonOS. Experience
    could be shared, the Access Queen could be involved on the spot, and
    all necessary/crucial questions could be discussed. The next host
    will get to know the amount of work and the obstacles...

I am wondering

 1. how we might integrate the idea, that the WOSonOS should rotate
    around the world. (Have we ever had an WOSonOS in Africa?) However -
    this might happen - or not.
 2. and I am not quite sure how to combine the hosting-question with the
    closing circle. I would like to keep the closing of a WOSonOS free
    for closing of what has happend. The next WOSonOS is something to
    come in the future. Therefore it belongs - for me - into the action
    phase before closing the circle.
 3. If we integrate the hosting-question of the next WOSonOS into our
    agenda it becomes transparent. And if everybody wants to join this
    session, we have to make space for it. :-o

So far my thoughts.

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than 20 years in SM and Big Enterprises out of which 7 years in Sweden I 
am living in Cyprus and work on a volontary basis with diffferent NGOs 
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Thank you Harold for your help to get this post from my berlin.de-account

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Subject: Re: [OSList] An invitation for future invitations to WOSONOS
Date: Fr 09 Okt 2015 16:29:51 CEST
From: Daniel Mezick via OSList<oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
To: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org, Pernilla Luttropp<pluttropp at swipnet.se>

What Pernilla has written here looks and feels like a /proposal/.

Something for consideration. Perhaps to try? As an /experiment/ ?

Maybe for just 1 iteration (1 season)........to see how it works?

Or maybe, just try it in one /venue/ in a given WOSONOS year, again, to 
just to... /see how it works? /

And then explicitly /inspect/ that, and make any adjustments needed from 
there?

I wonder what person, or group of people, could actually make it happen; 
that is, who can actually /authorize/ this proposal ?

De-authorize this proposal?

The countries/places that wish to host a future WOSONOS could post this 
on the OSLIST and Facebook and send a gentle reminder a few weeks before 
the upcoming WOSONOS. The inviting hosts would then be posted on a flip 
chart at the WOSONOS and announced as a session when creating the 
bulletin board or at the evening news. As always there is the 
opportunity to add places, sessions and news announcements up until the 
closing circle, both on the spot and via other ways of communicating. 
This would make it easier for everyone to approach the hosts, express 
their delight or ask clarifying questions. It would also enable the 
hosts (or their representatives) to come together in a session and find 
out how they would like to do the invitations in the closing circle. 
Maybe some will wait until next year? Maybe multiple WOSONOSes in one 
year? Maybe in different continents at the same time? Maybe with 
different themes/urgent questions?

On 9/30/15 3:03 PM, Pernilla Luttropp via OSList wrote:
> Hi all!
> At the inspiring WOSONOS in KrakÃƒÂ³w there were some learning 
> conversations on how this community Ã‚Â goes about when expressing and 
> accepting invitations from countries/places to host the upcoming 
> WOSONOSes.
> Ã‚Â
> In the big circle there were voices that expressed some confusion and 
> discomfort with the process. Others said that whatever happened, they 
> would trust the process. There was also the mentioning of 
> Ã‚Â‘traditionsÃ‚Â’ and the ways things are usually done at a WOSONOS. 
> And the reminder that traditions are made in every single now and 
> Ã‚Â‘Whatever happens is the only thing that could haveÃ‚Â’.
> Ã‚Â
> *If you are new to WOSONOS
> *This is how itÃ‚Â’s usually done (I think): the countries that wish 
> to host the next WOSONOS makes an invitation at the closing circle of 
> the WOSONOS and the participants are free to accept any of the 
> invitations. The process of accepting the invitation is sometimes done 
> by some kind of Ã‚Â‘votingÃ‚Â’ procedure in order to agree on one 
> place. There is often someone who reminds everybody that the 
> only way to Ã‚Â‘voteÃ‚Â’ in Open Space is by applying Ã‚Â‘The law 
> of mobilityÃ‚Â’. There is no need to only have one WOSONOS, there 
> could be multiple since Ã‚Â‘Wherever it happens is the right placeÃ‚Â’.
> Ã‚Â
> *My view
> *I am personally very uncomfortable to use the words 
> Ã‚Â‘votingÃ‚Â’ or to Ã‚Â‘make a collective decisionÃ‚Â’ within an Open 
> Space. One of the beauties with Open Space is taking responsibility 
> for your own engagement. If we all share the same engagement we will 
> walk in the same direction, eventually. But sometimes it takes time 
> for things to emerge.
> If a group decides on voting there are many good methods and itÃ‚Â’s 
> of outmost importance for those present to understand what they are 
> about to do, in order to make an informed decision. Is it a majority 
> decision? How many is the majority? What happens if some vote no? Is 
> it possible to have a ballot vote? Is it the role of the facilitator 
> to sum it up and make the final decision? In my view, we can only 
> express our appreciation for the invitation at the Open Space, offer 
> help if needed and make use of the law of mobility.
> Ã‚Â
> *An invitation
> *This is an invitation to try something else and maybe to let 
> go of a Ã‚Â‘traditionÃ‚Â’. What if we opened up at the beginning of 
> the process in order to see how it self organizes at the end?
> There seems to be something unclear about the Ã‚Â‘traditionÃ‚Â’ on how 
> to get information about who is inviting and why. If that information 
> were transparent from the very start of the WOSONOS, it might enable 
> more dialogue with the inviting hosts and between the hosts.
> Ã‚Â
> The countries/places that wish to host a future WOSONOS could post 
> this on the OSLIST and Facebook and send a gentle reminder a few weeks 
> before the upcoming WOSONOS. The inviting hosts would then be posted 
> on a flip chart at the WOSONOS and announced as a session when 
> creating the bulletin board or at the evening news. As always there is 
> the opportunity to add places, sessions and news announcements up 
> until the closing circle, both on the spot and via other ways of 
> communicating. This would make it easier for everyone to approach the 
> hosts, express their delight or ask clarifying questions. It would 
> also enable the hosts (or their representatives) to come together in a 
> session and find out how they would like to do the invitations in the 
> closing circle. Maybe some will wait until next year? Maybe multiple 
> WOSONOSes in one year? Maybe in different continents at the same time? 
> Maybe with different themes/urgent questions? LetÃ‚Â’s embrace chaos 
> and see what emerges! Or Ã‚Â‘Whatever happens is the only thing that 
> could haveÃ‚Â’.
> Ã‚Â
> Since the closing circle have a more definite dead line than Ã‚Â‘When 
> it is over it is overÃ‚Â’, due to flights and other time restrictions, 
> this prolonged invitation process will open up time for more dialogues 
> and invitations.
> But then again, as said in the closing circle in KrakÃƒÂ³w, there is 
> nothing like a good mess in order to learn something new J
>
> Maybe it has been tried before and in that case IÃ‚Â’m interested to 
> know how it worked or didnÃ‚Â’t work.
>
> Greetings from Sweden!
> Pernilla
>
>
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