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<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Dear colleagues and dear friends,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>this a very, very special day for me and my team:
Exactly at 15:15 (German time), 2002-05-15 we started the launch of our new open
space internet conference system. For all who have not much time to read this
long email ... you are warmly invited to go on our new website </FONT></FONT><A
href="http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com/">www.OpenSpace-Online.com</A><FONT
color=#000080>.</P>
<P>In the following I would like to share with you one of my greatest
experiences I had in my life. <BR><BR>In the middle of a wonderful period of
co-facilitating and facilitating OST conferences and of develop and offer a OST
Training together with Michael M Pannwitz I began to dream about the question
"Could it give additional ways to spread OST?" "What" and "how"?" Over month
this questions came again and again into my mind. I did not know really why,
because I saw how wonderful OST spread. In the same way I was additional so much
impressed about the new possibilities which brought us the world wide web. At
this time I thought that this two threads in my mind were total independent from
each other. </P>
<P>But on a weekend in July 1999, relaxing in the sun, it happens in my yard.
There I had an indescribably intense flash of inspiration. In my mind's eye, I
saw, quite clearly and precisely, the process and structure of an Internet-based
real-time conference. This conference software had a virtual facilitator, helped
decentralized work groups and interest groups to achieve a large degree of
independence. Moreover, it brought into harmony with one another
results-orientation, participation, and mutually respectful communication. At
the same time, this software transferred as good as possible the principles of
OST to the Internet. I saw how this software could ideally support processes of
learning and of change in society, in the economy, in education, and in politics
with its practically universal span of application and due to its simple and
quick handling. </P>
<P>I jumped out of my canvas chair, I was total confused, I went into the house,
toke paper and a pen and began to write down all what I saw. I felt myself like
in trance ... I wrote and wrote and wrote. A full concept of the software
structure, the procedure, the benefits, the applications, the logo draft, the
slogan and first steps of realization. When I "woke up" more than one hour was
gone, 10 pages were full and I was so tired and so confused. That MOMENT was the
begin of a big adventure.</P>
<P>The vision was so clear and so powerful! It was like a precious gift and was
also like a very precise and clear commission. What followed was a journey of
discovery into an area (IT) that was at that time foreign to me. But I had the
deep belief that this vision could become reality. The whole time I was guided
by a friendly star, which always showed me the way or stopped me if I was in
danger of getting off course. It is a good thing that I did not know at the
beginning how deep I would have to penetrate into this area and that an almost
unending desert of countless details, privations, risks, and unforeseen
challenges awaited me. But there was never any question of stopping, turning
around, or giving up. It must also be said that I never would have been able to
complete this big project alone. I was fortunate in always finding the right
people at the right time. A big Thank You to all my angels and supporters on
earth and after this time I am sure also in heaven!</P>
<P>And a very big THANK YOU to you, Harrison. Without your open philosophy,
without your trust in open change I would never had this powerful inspiration
and the courage to go into such chancy and expensive adventure without any
doubt. THANK YOU for your "wonderful open space garden". You disseminated a
brilliant seed and since over 17 years it grows and grows in this beautiful
garden. The internet and the IT sector makes it possible that over the years
more and more communication and new plants and bloomers appear. Each plant has
its own personality, its own tasks and benefits. But all plants have the same
roots and all are full of heart energy, of passion and all are growing for
similar higher goals.<BR><BR>To realize my vision I went into a cooperation with
a very experienced software company. During the time more and more staff were
needed and on average between 5 and 7 people were working day by day in this
project. One of a few "musts" from our business partner was it to keep our
IT-project top secret. But now the development of the first software version and
the long period of tests (12 month), in which 30 to 50 people helped us in
optimizing the system, are over. Now we are able to speak about our new
innovation. I am so happy about this milestone and it is so exciting!</P>
<P><U>If you are interested in ... here some brief information regarding our new
"bloomer":<BR></U>Our main product is now an Internet conference software, which
takes place in successive phases, in which between 5 and 75 persons can
simultaneously work on a major subject that is current and important to them.
The complete conference system and the appropriate conference software is
available in German and in English. The participants work together in a goal and
solution-oriented manner for 1.5 to about 8 hours. No external online moderator
is needed. A virtual facilitator guides all participants simply through the
process of the conference. That was in the beginning one of my biggest aims: no
online moderator and in real-time! I wanted to create a system with a good
structure, phase by phase, step by step with a good orientation for each single
participant at each place in the "conference center" and at every second. I was
sure, that the passion for a higher joint subject will find the way through this
virtual leaded process. The wonderful result is: it works every time! And at the
end of every online conference each participant receives extensive documentation
about the conference in the convenient HTML-format at the press of a button. The
documentation provides an ideal basis for further work, as it contains all
contents, results, and arrangements made during the conference and can be
immediately used in either digital or printed form. </P>
<P>With the complete conference system licensees can plan and manage individual
conferences quickly and independently and carry these through via Internet,
Extranet, or Intranet. With our conference system, we are especially oriented
towards companies, organizations, universities and schools which are engaged in
a process of constant learning and which understand, therefore, the value of
participation for the proactive initiation and establishment of sustainable
processes of change and want to make synergies possible between the offline and
the online world.</P>
<P>Another field of application which is equally important to us is that of
cities and communities engaged in a constant learning process. We are happy
therefore that an extensive cooperation has begun between our new company and
the German Association of Towns and Municipalities. The goals of this
cooperation are to work together to support cities and communities in opening
ever more interactive spaces for lively online citizen participation to make
city and regional development possible in a new form and to set new
international benchmarks for the areas E-Government, E-Participation and
E-Democracy. </P>
<P>Like OST, our software system is also not a "sell-product". It is just a
tool, easy and fast to handle and to use. We have no distribution system and we
will have no agencies, no sales commission is planed, no sales people are needed
and no consultants are required. Our deep believe is that (with the principles
of OST) our software system will find the right customers, license clients and
the right participants self-organized and the right people which want to support
such applications ... when the time is right. Our main tasks in the future will
be to make our innovation known, to "hold the space" for all people and
organizations which are interested in our services around self-organized
participation and self-organized e-participation. Another task is to continue
the development on our software system and to develop other networking tools.
That’s our mission. We invite you all warmly to have a look into our new website
www.OpenSpace-Online.com. There you will find more information. </P>
<P>Thank you for taking time and reading this long message!<BR>With warm
greetings from Berlin</P>
<P>Gabriela Ender</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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