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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>I would not trust the number of facilitators based on the world wide OST map, as many facilitators refuse to be there, but mainly because <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">any person can include herself in the map, even if she only heard about OST in a bar,</SPAN></STRONG> and is interested in paying the required fee or ask for the reduced one to be there. I suspect that same of the same people that are always editing the OST Wikipedia entry (making it worse), may have included themselves in the map, as there is no control.[I am not saying that some control should be imposed – only that it is not reliable measure of the number of OST facilitators.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>I don't know also in how many countries there are local (and not only foreign) OST practitioners, but, for the same reason, I don't know if your source in reliable (and, by the way, that source refers now "140 active OST countries")</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>In what concerns the number of <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Institutes</SPAN></STRONG> that are effectively "formal, government-chartered, non-profit organizations" please include Portugal in the list. But I think your list should be revised, as there are probably others. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Regards<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Artur<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 11/29/09, Michael Herman <I><michael@michaelherman.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Michael Herman <michael@michaelherman.com><BR>Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Open Space Tech article on Wikipedia marked as spam, being readied for "speedy deletion"<BR>To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR>Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 11:37 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV>i've wanted to ask you all to help me build out a list of statistics, a sort of open space tech "by the numbers". i was going to make this part of the osw site, but it might come in very handy in posting as part of this wikipedia article.<BR><BR>here are some examples, please check my math and add any other interesting numbers:<BR><BR>-the first ost meeting happened in 1985 at the symposium for organization transformation (OT)<BR>-a total of 20 OT symposia were held annually, that last 19 of them were run "in open space"<BR>-ost meetings have now happened in 165 countries, as listed at <A href="http://openspaceworldmap.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>openspaceworldmap.org</A></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>-there are 469 facilitators listed in the <A href="http://openspaceworldmap.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>openspaceworldmap.org</A><BR>-the worldwide open space on open space practitioner conference has been annually since 1993<BR>-the wosonos conference has been held in 8 different countries <BR>-an email group, called OSLIST, for practitioners worldwide was started in 1996.<BR>-as of december 2009, there are more than 26,400 messages in the OSLIST publicly searchable archives.<BR>-OSLIST membership in december 2009 stood at 662.<BR>-there are __ open space institutes active around the world.<BR>-three open space institute groups (US, Canada, and Germany) are formal, government-chartered, non-profit organizations<BR>-<A href="http://openspaceworld.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>openspaceworld.org</A> offers (or links to) explanations of open space technology in more than 20 different languages.<BR>-harrison owen has authored 8 books on the
process.<BR>-harrison owen estimates that there have been more than 100,000 applications of open space since 1985.<BR>-the smallest open space meeting commonly reported was a meeting run by harrison owen, for 5 participants (when 7 others were snowed out)<BR>-the largest open space meetings commonly reported were in germany, 2108 participants, facilitated by harrison owen and michael pannwitz (theme?) and ____ participants at a girl scouts event in _______, facilitated by christine whitney sanchez and (others?)<BR><BR>what other numbers might we offer? and did i get these right?<BR><BR><BR><BR>--<BR><BR>Michael Herman<BR>Michael Herman Associates<BR><BR><A href="http://www.michaelherman.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.michaelherman.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.ronanparktrail.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.ronanparktrail.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.chicagoconservationcorps.org/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://www.chicagoconservationcorps.org</A><BR><A href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.openspaceworld.org</A><BR><BR>312-280-7838 (mobile)<BR><BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Harrison Owen <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="http://us.mc546.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hhowen@verizon.net" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote>Bye Bye<BR><BR>Harrison Owen<BR>7808 River Falls Drive<BR>Potomac, Maryland 20854<BR>Phone 301-365-2093<BR>Skype hhowen<BR>Open Space Training <A href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.openspaceworld.com</A><BR>Open Space Institute <A href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.openspaceworld.org</A><BR>Personal website <A href="http://www.ho-image.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.ho-image.com</A><BR>OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the<BR>archives Visit: <A href="http://www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</A><BR>
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