<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Dear Funda,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you for your story and sorry for not supporting you by my participation in this event! </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think this is a great precedent for Turkey. After all I'm sure that it is very brave of you to become an initiator of such a new topic for your society! Congratulations Funda! And even do not try to give up! </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I had also a chance to observe how productive small group can work. Your story remind me past Ukrainian OS Learning Exchange. After investing a lot of time and some money we got only 6 participants and 3 of them were Germans! What was a fun to participate in this event =) Just imagine ... Crimea Island, Tatarian hotel, German participants, English language as working - all that we called Ukrainian (!!!) Learning Exchange ;-) </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hugs and warm greetings from misty Kyiv! </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yana Demenko </DIV><DIV>GURT Resource Center for NGO Development </DIV><DIV>[post] P.O.Box 126, Kyiv 01025, Ukraine </DIV><DIV>[e-mail] <A href="mailto:yana@demenko.info">yana@demenko.info</A>; <A href="mailto:yana@gurt.org.ua">yana@gurt.org.ua</A> </DIV><DIV>[web] <A href="http://www.gurt.org.ua">www.gurt.org.ua</A> </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 3, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Funda Oral wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><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 :<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.acikalanteknolojisi.com"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">www.acikalanteknolojisi.com</SPAN></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><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </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><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV> </DIV>* * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: <A href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</A> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <A href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</A></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>*
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