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Metta,<BR>
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Well said; I am right with you.<BR>
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Regarding <I>whoever comes are the right people - </I>I was able to stumble into OSonOS VI in Monterrey on a shoestring budget, and it was a life-course-altering experience, thanks largely to the lively international diversity of the group (if you were in Monterrey in particular, you know what I mean!) I am happy that some folks with slim wallets in Germany or Denmark will have access to the same experience this week.<BR>
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And of course, there is nothing limiting OSonOS to a single event per year. The joy of opening the space with other practitioners is so great that spontaneous regional OSonOSes could surely spring up...(Hmmm...)<BR>
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Regarding OSonOS Online: No start-up technical help here, but another call to "YES, LET'S DO IT!" I agree with Metta that a web-based threaded discussion would be the way to go. <FONT COLOR="#0000FF">If not worldwide open space or ezboard, maybe the Meta Network?</FONT> If someone in Berlin could post each agenda wall topic as a separate thread, then we out here could put in our two cents' worth on the topics and bumblebee like wild, before, during, and after the actual physical discussion groups. Back in Berlin, when the groups have met, someone could post each report under its thread on-line. I wouldn't want the cyberspace parallel version to interfere with the regular-space in Berlin, but if someone there feels they could take on the thread- and report-posting, I don't think it would...on-site participants could visit the on-line version, or not; and afterward we would have two books of proceedings: the normal one for the bodily participants, and the automatically-archived online one with postings from all of us out here, and ongoing after the event. Could be big fun!! <BR>
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Any problems with this idea? Any champions out there who see how to get it rolling? <BR>
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Also, from me too, thanks Birgitt for your posting.<BR>
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Chris Weaver<BR>
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Dear Birgitt,<BR>
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Thank you for your thoughtful spirit of inclusiveness!<BR>
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I firmly believe that, in all things, whoever comes *are*<BR>
the right people, even though:<BR>
- I won't be participating in this year's OSonOS, and<BR>
- financial constraints often limit the number of<BR>
national and international OS events I'm able<BR>
to attend each year.<BR>
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However, I think it would be wonderful if, as you suggested,<BR>
Birgitt, there's an "effort made...to link on-line during<BR>
the event."<BR>
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Might it not be possible (Michael?) to create a forum in<BR>
the Worldwide Open Space site for shared postings?<BR>
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I, for one, would love to see parallel or synchronized<BR>
conversations develop online during the OSonOS event,<BR>
and if we can't use the Worldwide OS site for this<BR>
online coordination, I think I could relatively easily<BR>
and quickly set up a forum for us on ezboard's free site:<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.ezboard</U></FONT>. <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.ezboard.com/</U></FONT>> com<BR>
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<<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.ezboard.com/</U></FONT>> For what it's worth, it seems to me that a web-based forum<BR>
(bulletin board) would be much more functional, flexible<BR>
and more easily navigable than attempting to run and track<BR>
the conversations through the listserv. Just MHO.<BR>
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Will be interested in others' thoughts and reactions!<BR>
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As ever,<BR>
Metta Zetty<BR>
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