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size=3>To friends and members of the Open Space Institute(US),</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>- - -<BR>WHO ARE WE/YOU? <BR>- - - <BR>We serve Open Space practitioners
and enthusiasts around the world - supporting learning, practice, research,
publication, dissemination of information, access to events and building
community to further the understanding and sharing of Open Space Technology.
<BR><BR>We join with our colleagues, the Open Space Institutes around the world,
and you as individuals, to hold space for Open Space in the world. We (the
current Board of OSI-US -- Karen Davis, John Engle, Doug Germann, Lisa Heft,
Michael Herman, Peggy Holman, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Leon</st1:country-region> de King, Kerry Napuk, Mikk Sarv, and Gabriel
Shirley) are not just of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> - we are from <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Scotland</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Estonia</st1:country-region> and the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Members of OSI-US - and there are
many of them among you, dear readers -- have been from Canada, Switzerland,
Germany, Denmark, Scotland, Japan, Australia, France, England and Taiwan.
<BR><BR>- - - <BR>WHAT ACTIVITIES DO MEMBERS SUPPORT?<BR>- - -<BR><BR>Membership
donations have helped us to continue serving Open Space facilitators and
enthusiasts around the world. How? <BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>- - -<BR>What You Helped Us Do During 2004</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>- - -<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Funded 10 Haitian participants at the
regional Haitian OSonOS</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Funded OST training in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Katmandu</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Nepal</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Funded preservation of original (1989)
Goa Open Space video footage</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>* Funded an
OS practitioner living in <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> to attend the
annual Open Space on Open Space in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Goa</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> <BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hosted the first <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
national OSonOS – OsonOSinUS</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceOnOpenSpaceInUS"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceOnOpenSpaceInUS</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Donated 25 copies of <st1:place
w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place>’s Practice of Peace (first edition) to a prison
library project and 15 copies to the Nepal OS training group</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Donated to the OS world map (</FONT><A
href="http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>* <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Published an issue of STORIES, The
Newsletter of the Open Space Institute (US) </FONT><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/tmnfiles/newsletter0412.htm"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/tmnfiles/newsletter0412.htm</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>) <BR><BR>* Launched the Education Wiki Weekend -
an interactive database on Open Space applications in education – to improve our
practice as facilitators by learning from each others’ experience and to create
a rich resource for future sponsors to visit and understand the benefits of
using Open Space in education. </FONT><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceinEducation"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceinEducation</FONT></A><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Continued to support the online working
space for OS practitioners </FONT><A href="http://www.openspaceworld.net/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>www.openspaceworld.net</FONT></A><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>
</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Posted the OSI-US Board conversations in
public view as an invitation a) to organizations to notice that such
organization / process is possible and b) to individuals who may wish to join
our conversations on issues and projects for which they share
passion.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceInstituteUSA"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceInstituteUSA</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Acted as fiscal agent for the
administration and registration of international participants to OSonOS in
<st1:place w:st="on">Goa</st1:place>.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Acted as fiscal agent for Access Queen
(a source of funds to supplement travel expenses to OSonOS)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>* Enabled
online credit card processing for OSI-US donations, Access Queen, and OSonOS
registration</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.openspaceproducts.us/payments.html"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceproducts.us/payments.html</FONT></A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Developed a letter of agreement as a
template to request OSI act as a fiscal agent</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?SampleFundingLetterAgreement"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?SampleFundingLetterAgreement</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Began a conversation with Appreciative
Inquiry and future search practitioners for a joint Schools and Youth
Summit</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Joined the National Coalition of
Dialogue and Deliberation</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://www.thataway.org/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://www.thataway.org/</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">*<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Became a distributor for Circles of
Change: a quiet revolution in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Haiti</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceBooksAndVideos"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceBooksAndVideos</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*-*-*-*-*<BR>What We Are Working on for 2005<BR>*-*-*-*-*<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Open an online space for
an OS Project Service Market (convening an online market place to support
projects of members of the OS community; more details soon)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Co-host an Open Space
Research Project (with colleagues from <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region> and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>, we wish to understand the
effect of OS on the world; more details soon)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceResearch"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceResearch</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Continue supporting
participation in OSonOS for people in underserved areas</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Continue supporting OS
training in underserved areas</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Continue collaboration on
an education summit with Appreciative Inquiry and future search practitioners
(More details soon)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Host the second annual
OSonOSinUS<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Details soon at
</FONT><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceOnOpenSpaceInUS/Invitation2005"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceOnOpenSpaceInUS/Invitation2005</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Continue support of
working space for OS practitioners (</FONT><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.net/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>www.openspaceworld.net</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>)
</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Prepare for 20th
anniversary of OS celebration (and a surprise party for <st1:place
w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place>’s 70th birthday; more details soon)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>(okay so since Harrison is no doubt reading this, the fact that something
will happen isn't a surprise but none of us have a clue yet of what, where
and when, so, as someone once said, be prepared to be surprised)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>If any of these projects catch your eye - contact
us and we'll make it happen together!<BR><BR>- - - <BR>THANK YOU for your
support and your involvement - your passion and your responsibility for what has
heart and meaning -- from the Board of Directors of the Open Space
Institute of the US: <BR><BR>Karen Davis, John Engle, Doug Germann, Lisa Heft,
Michael Herman, Peggy Holman, Leon de King, Kerry Napuk, Mikk Sarv, and Gabriel
Shirley</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>P.S. Join us in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for the 13th annual
Open Space on Open Space, August 3-6. Details soon:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceOnOpenSpace"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceOnOpenSpace</FONT></A><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>
</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>and join us in <st1:City w:st="on">San Antonio</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Texas</st1:State> sometime in November for the 2nd annual Open Space
on Open Space in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Details soon at:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceOnOpenSpaceInUS/Invitation2005"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceOnOpenSpaceInUS/Invitation2005</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">___________________________________<BR>Peggy
Holman<BR>Open Space Institute (US)<BR>15347 SE 49th Place<BR>Bellevue, Wa
98006<BR>(425) 746-6274<BR><A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org">www.openspaceworld.org</A></P>
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