hello artur, thanks for this observing and suggesting and inviting. i'd be glad to remind you how to post to the various os wikis. there aren't a ton of them. iberian, italian, haitian, french, english (<a href="http://openspaceworld.net">openspaceworld.net</a>), i think, is what we have. i think estonian may have been overrun with spam. can't recall. but you're welcome to post into any of them. thanks, m<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Artur Silva <<a href="mailto:arturfsilva@yahoo.com">arturfsilva@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">That is marvellous. Thank you. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I will wait for corrections of small typing errors (done by other "English natives", I hope...) and will translate it to Portuguese and include it in the Portuguese version of the Wikipedia, during the next Sunday (I hope). Is that timing ok?</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Carla will do the Dutch section. Can we have offers for the other languages (at list the ones represented in the openspaceworld site)? </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Michael Herman</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">: would you agree about repeating those new many-languages versions of the OST description from the Wikipedia in the openspace wiki? (Including the wikis that are now closed for edition, like the Iberian one)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Lisa: Wikipedia is an Encyclopaedia - or wants to be one. I am afraid that links to consultants' pages may be considered as "advertising", no matter how important they may be considered by the OST community, especially when they have been added by the owner of the linked sites. So I would suggest removing those links from the Wikipedia, maintaining the link to <a href="http://opensapceworlg.org" target="_blank">opensapceworlg.org</a>, edited to say that the photo-illustration of the process and the glossary of international terms and phrases is included there and edit that wiki to included the links to those materials in a prominent place. What do you think?</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Best regards. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">From Lisbon with b</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">eijos e abraços</span></p>
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<br>To: <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br></div>Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 3:09 PM<br><br>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Carla – Great! And let's get the English straight first. I have made a first effort. Hopefully some of our more literate compatriots in OS Land will hear the call to improve!!!</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, June 16, 2008 3:42 PM<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSLIST @<a href="http://LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: OST becoming mainstream (was: Opening Space at Microsoft PDC)</div></span></font></p></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Jack, Harrison and all: </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">There is strong evidence that OST is becoming mainstream. </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I am not speaking only based on the Microsoft event but on some other international conferences that announced that they are going to use OST. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">But this is also a problem. In some cases, the expression Open Space (or even Open Space Technology) is used, but there are variants in its application that may subvert its flavour or event its essence. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I am not speaking of heterodoxy - that always implies that the heterodox knows what the orthodoxy is - but about using the label with complete ignorance of the OST User's Guide.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Some 3 or 4 years ago a CPSquare event was announced as "OS" but the topics for break out sessions were selected in advance by the organizers.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">In the Microsoft event, it happens that the person that apparently is opening the space for that "OST" is concerned about the fact that (fortunately) he will not be able to apply what he thinks are two rules of OST - but they are not. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">In a different event, where a fried of mine will have to assure the logistics part, a lot of strange material has been asked by the facilitator for the break out spaces of an "OST event". </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I know that a non proprietary methodology has no way to enforce its principles. But there are some corrections that can be done easily.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">As you all know, more and more the Wikipedia is the standard for definitions and first information about almost everything. And if one googles "Open Space Technology" the first entry refers to the Wikipedia </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="purple"><span style="color: purple;" lang="EN-GB">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology</span></font></a></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">But if one reads the content there are a lot of wrong or misleading information in it. This goes from small imperfections, like the wording of principles, to the fact that the Law is completely forgotten. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The same is true in other languages. If I google "Metodologia de Espaço Aberto" the first enter refers to the Wikipedia in Portuguese </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espa%C3%A7o_aberto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="purple"><span style="color: purple;" lang="EN-GB">http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espa%C3%A7o_aberto</span></font></a></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">. Again the definition is very superficial.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">But anyone can correct the wikipedia (</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="purple"><span style="color: purple;" lang="EN-GB">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia</span></font></a></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">)</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">So, here go my suggestions:</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">1) Harrison and a small group of friends could correct the English entry of the Wikipedia.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">2) Afterwards all of us could use that version as a guide and translate it in all of our different languages to include in the Wikipedia version in each language.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">3) Anyhow the Wikipedia has a link to the OST site (</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="purple"><span style="color: purple;" lang="EN-GB">http://www.openspaceworld.org/</span></font></a></span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">) but this was initially thought, I think, as a resource for practitioners. Now it is used also by non OST practitioners, that can't find easily (in the main page of each language) a short, agreed upon, clarification of the principles and fundamentals of OST. This could complement the Wikipedia entries - or even simply repeat them. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">What do you think about my suggestions?</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br>--- On <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fri, 6/13/08, Jack Martin Leith <i><span style="font-style: italic;"><<a href="mailto:jack@jackmartinleith.com" target="_blank">jack@jackmartinleith.com</a>></span></i></span></b> wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Delighted to get your email and to see both blog comments.</span></font></p></div>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Please have another look at <a href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/?p=232" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.jackmartinleith.com/?p=232</a> where you'll see my response to the two numbered points in our second comment (also pasted below for the benefit of OSListers).</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">And please accept my apologies for getting hold of the wrong end of the stick!</span></font></p></div>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Jack Martin Leith<br>Creating the new. Enriching the world<br>Bristol , United Kingdom<br>Mobile : 07831 840541 (+44 7831 840541)<br>
Skype: jackmartinleith<br>email: <a href="mailto:jack@jackmartinleith.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jack@jackmartinleith.com</a><br><a href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.jackmartinleith.com</a> </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">From <a href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/?p=232" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.jackmartinleith.com/?p=232</a>:</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Also, as I mentioned in an email to you, there are two areas that concern me regarding Open Space as it currently exists for PDC:</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">1) Due to the size of the conference (and the fact that Open Space is just an un-conference within the larger conference), there isn't a current plan to have attendees vote and prioritize the sessions they want to see talked about (which, unfortunately, removes some of the agile nature of Open Space).</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">2) No current support for an attendees submitting a topic he's interested in but doesn't want to speak about or moderate himself.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">As you can imagine, this has me concerned as both of them are departures from the Open Space model. I would love to have a chat here with you and your readers on ways that we can avoid this (or if we should even be worrying about it). The biggest key is that I don't want to take a great model like Open Space and butcher it because we didn't actually "grok" the true purposes behind Open Space.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">My response to Jason's two posts:</span></font></b></b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">With regard to your two concerns, neither of the practices you describe forms part of the vanilla Open Space model as described by Harrison Owen in his book, Open Space Technology: A User's Guide.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">In fact most Open Space facilitators don't even suggest that very similar sessions are merged – this is left to the session leaders (convenors, hosts, whatever you like to call them) to manage themselves.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Regarding your second point, Open Space is very much about people taking responsibility for hosting a session. Otherwise Open Space is little more than a brainstorming meeting: "I think this is an interesting idea, but I don't care enough to do something about it."</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">I'm sure other Open Space practitioners will have more to say about both of these points!</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">2008/6/13 Jason Olson (DPE) <<a href="mailto:Jason.Olson@microsoft.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jason.Olson@microsoft.com</a>>:</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial;">Thanks for the email Jack! I commented on your blog post directly to make the conversation more public. My wording may have been a bit unclear. There is no creating of the agenda ahead of the conference. This is something that is created onsite, at the conference, by the attendees and for the attendees. This also enables me to avoid having us (Microsoft) try to "dictate" what can or can't be discussed. This should be an agile process. </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial;">The part that concerns me right now (and where we currently deviate from a typical Open Space), is that there is no "attendees vote for the sessions they would like to see and we use that to determine what is presented." Because of the potential number of people involved, combined with the fact that this is merely a smaller unconference within a larger conference, I'm not convinced that it would work. So, currently, it's largely "first come, first serve" when people sign up for an Open Space session. Also, there's really not a supported model for submitting a session you want to hear about, but have no clue who can moderate/or discuss the session in general.</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial;">As you can imagine, these two changes make me a bit uneasy considering the departure from what makes Open Space great. </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial;">Of course, I would love to hear feedback from you and others if this is a big deal (and if we should even worry about it), or if we should avoid this and find a different way for the prioritization and participation to occur. </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="#006fa4" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 111, 164); font-family: Arial;">Jason Olson</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">From:</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> <a href="mailto:jackmartinleith@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jackmartinleith@gmail.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:jackmartinleith@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jackmartinleith@gmail.com</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jack Martin Leith<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 13, 2008 9:11 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSLIST<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Jason Olson (DPE)<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Opening Space at Microsoft PDC</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Big thanks for the heads up.</span></font></p></div>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">I've just blogged it here: <a href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/?p=231" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jackmartinleith.com/?p=231</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">As you'll see, I'm questioning the decision to create the agenda ahead of the conference.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">2008/6/13 Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hhowen@verizon.net</a>>:</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Seems like the folks at the annual Microsoft Professional Development Conference are intending to open a little space. Definitely cutting edge, innovative – Cheers for Microsoft. For the details go to:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://microsoftpdc.com/View.aspx?post=91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8590057" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://microsoftpdc.com/View.aspx?post=91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8590057</a> Don't have any idea who is doing it, but I am sure they will have a grand time.</span></font></p>
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