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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Michael is obviously a man (person) after
my own heart. I certainly enjoy all the bells and whistles that happen at
OSONOS, and deeply appreciate the effort that goes into the whole affair. That
said, I really do believe everybody is working much too hard. Having done 6 of
these critters (the first four OSONOS’s and 2 more OSONOS’s by the
Sea) I can tell you that total planning time for the first one might have been
10 minutes – consisting mostly of deciding if I really wanted to do it
and what the theme might be. I wanted to roll and the theme was obvious: “Opening
Space in our lives and our world: Issues and Opportunities.” That theme
worked pretty well which thereby reduced the planning time to “0” for
the next 5 gatherings. Logistics and promotion took a little longer, maybe 24
hours total. As for the “Conference Fee” – I found the $25
was more than sufficient. Actually for the last two OSONOS’s I ended up
sending about half of the collected fee to Lisa for the Access Queen’s
Fund. So anyhow it is simple and it is doable. Most of all Have Fun! And of
course, think of one more thing NOT to do.</span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Michael Herman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 13, 2009
1:56 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: SV: [OSLIST] WOSONOS
2009 and Then.......</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>sheila
isakson and i hosted osonos7 in chicago. our main model for that was
osonos4, hosted by harrison. and my counsel to every host-to-be i've
talked with since then is, first and foremost, to remember that this is
open space we're talking about, so keep looking for things to not do. <br>
<br>
we booked a single meeting room, where free coffee was available in an
adjoining room, plenty of public space nearby for breakouts to spill into, lots
of restaurants in the immediate vicinity, close to downtown sightseeing places,
and moderately-priced hotel rooms on site. (a hampton inn in downtown
chicago). we pointed invitees to a budget hostel option a few blocks away
as a cheaper sleeping place. after that, it was nothing but markers,
postits, paper, bells, and computers. simply open space. sliding
scale, same as harrison, i think, $25 to $200. we lined up a few plates
of hors d'ouvres for the evening before, which was simple hanging out, watching
people trickle in from the airports, tipping a few drinks from the hotel bar,
and saying hellos. i don't remember that the total prep took more than a
day or two, spread over several months. <br>
<br>
i've always thought that part of the job of hosting osonos was to make it look
just that easy, the way harrison did at osonos4, to show (especially for new
practitioners) just how simple it was to run a big deal in a little bit of open
space. a simple invitation: a single meeting room. some basic
supplies. and an opening briefing. everything else is strictly
optional, and less is still more.<br>
<br>
there is the bit about registrations and such, but i always thought that was
just a lot of chatting with friends from all over, and keeping a simple list of
who said they were coming. hosting was great fun. and great
learning. i'd recommend it to anyone.<br>
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i know there's a certain charge out of naming one "world" osonos each
year, but i do wish we as a community made it easier for more than one of these
to happen at once. i've always wanted to see simultaneous events on
several continents. i wish we could have less emphasis on making a
show of this place or that place (and choosing only one of them) and more
emphasis on who (even if it's many people) is interested in stepping into the
simplest responsibilities of hosting and opening. and then if we have
many hosts, they can work together on sharing marketplace wall postings and how
to post all the notes into teh same online place. i think with skype and
other tech we'd now have easy ways to have video of world-around breakout
sessions, where small groups on several continents could be meeting
face-to-face in single sessions. i suppose this strains the traditions a
bit, but i think it'd be worth trying, as further experiment and demonstration
of what's now possible in an increasingly open space world.<br>
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m<br>
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Michael Herman<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Eva P Svensson <<a
href="mailto:eva@epshumaninvest.se">eva@epshumaninvest.se</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Dear Lisa and host team to-be…</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Being one of the presenters for WOSonOS
in San Francisco on behalf of Lisa and her host team – I can just ad
– if you are not able to be there in person – make sure that those
who represent you have a good “show”/offer – because then it
is so much easier to be the stand-in. Lisa had provide us – Thomas and me
– with a “whole show” </span></font><font size=2
color="#1f497d" face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;
color:#1F497D'>J</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> and it was so fun and it was easy to
make the offer irresistible!</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=SV style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Have fun!</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=SV style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Hugs</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=SV style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>:o)</span></font></p>
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lang=SV style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Eva </span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>För </span></b>Lisa Heft<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Skickat:</span></b> den 11 september 2009
17:56<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ämne:</span></b> Re: [OSLIST] WOSONOS 2009
and Then.......<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Prioritet:</span></b> Hög</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Other memories of how Host Teams invited us to future
WOSonOSs...</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thomas Herrmann and Eva P Svensson (Sweden) inviting
on my behalf in Kiev - they got the whole group participating being the San
Franco -and- they made a little doll to represent me</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Brian Bainbridge and Viv
McWaters creating a map of Australia on the floor
and Brian standing on different areas in Australia to give us a sense for the
diverse country and culture, while we all snacked on candies with koalas on
them</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>For those of you who have been to past WOSonOSs - what
else do you remember from lovely invitations to host WOSonOS by other
international colleagues?</span></font></p>
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