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Thank you so much Funda. So brave, so true, so warm, so open, such an
inspiration - may the force be with you, and may you get help to
finance it to.<br>
Agneta in an extreamly non-winterlike Uppsala, Sweden<br>
<br>
Funda Oral wrote:
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<div>Here is the story-MY story of Interactive
Organizations Gathering in Istanbul.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Jo and Michael had asked me if i would like to host 3rd IAO
gathering in November 2005,</div>
<div>i had accepted and started thinking about it.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I had been exchanging thoughts, ideas, suggestions with
many friends from the OSlist </div>
<div>in and outside the list and with many friends around me since
January 2006.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>In April 2006 i started preparing the invitation. Can
Uludag made the pictures.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>You can still have a look at the invitation on the turkish ost
web site : <a href="http://www.acikalanteknolojisi.com">www.acikalanteknolojisi.com</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div>Starting from June and until September 2006 i worked on the text
of invitation, exchanging ideas</div>
<div>with various friends.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>In September 1000 invitations have been printed.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>From september till the event ( 24-26 nov.) i disributed
invitations by post and by e-mail. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>I sent invitations by post to everybody who heard about the
event and/ or who heard about ost </div>
<div>from me. I distributed them to cafees, to universities, to
friends, relatives etc. In total</div>
<div>i distributed around 700 printed invitations and more then 1000
invitations including the ones i sent by e-mail.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>A school friend who runs a public relations company helped me to
announce the event through the</div>
<div>media. An interview with me about ost was published in a
business newspaper. In adddition, an annoucement</div>
<div>about IAO event has been published on several news web
sites, magazines and newspapers.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>In september i visited the multinational company that Gail also
was referring to in her message. I knew how much</div>
<div>OST contributed to their work ( i didn't work there with ost but
i knew someone who was in charge of the use of ost).</div>
<div>I asked them to be the sponsor of this event and/ or to
paticipate in the event.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Unfortunately they couldn't support the event financially,
they couldn't participate in the event neither.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>1 week ago from the event i heard that mmp and jo couldn't
participate.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>There were few people who had registered to the gathering.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I extended a final invitation to all my close friends saying </div>
<div> </div>
<div>" I gave you too much headache with my obsession to this thing
called ost, now i invite you to take part in iao istanbul </div>
<div>so that you can experience it. I owe you this invitation as i
took your time and energy. Moreover i need your</div>
<div>support. The door will be open come whenever you want to. It's
better if you are there at least for the opening.</div>
<div>Please feel free to join us and don't worry if you can not"</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Around 50 people were confirmed they would be there at least for
the opening.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>25 showed up at the opening. The others: someome had forgetten,
some had crises at work, some had other things to do,</div>
<div>some couldn't come because of traffic.....whatever</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I just said few words as the sponsor. Mia opened the space
wonderfully.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Then perfect!.....they started raising up issues so quickly and
such deep issues and questions!</div>
<div> </div>
<div>There is no word to describe my feelings about being with all
these people who are very important to me and to my life in an</div>
<div>ost meeting. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>We were 13 at the closing session. Everbody came up with many
projects and ideas. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>At the closing, i told about YOUR support , i told them how much
i felt your eyes</div>
<div>were watching us and your hearts were beating with ours during
the event. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>I invested one year of time for the event. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>I invested around 3500 euro.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I did this because i believe in OST and i aslo believe in the
power and use of the </div>
<div>"InterActive Organizations" as a concept.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The pictures will be uploaded to some web site, i will later
share them with you.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
<div> </div>
<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Funda</div>
<div> </div>
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