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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>OSI Canada is not a “chartered” organization but an
informal non-profit network. In Canada that does allow for bank accounts
and a very limited budget before taxes are required. We do have a very
part time administrator. RFFO is a Francophone network with Canadian
roots and supported by OSI Canada. It is not separately incorporated and
involves people from a variety of countries. There are pluses and minuses, but the
networks are beyond any one person’s business. Australia also has
an Institute. Taiwan has a group that goes beyond ICA, but that has been
its base. And there are a variety of informal groups or networks that go
beyond any one person’s incorporated business. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Larry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Larry Peterson & Associates in Transformation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Toronto, Ontario, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:larry@spiritedorg.com"><span style='color:blue'>larry@spiritedorg.com</span></a>
416.653.4829 <a href="http://www.spiritedorg.com/"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.spiritedorg.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Herman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> November-29-09 2:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSLIST] Open Space Tech article on Wikipedia marked as
spam, being readied for "speedy deletion"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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">openspaceworldmap.org</a><br>
-there are 469 facilitators listed in the <a href="http://openspaceworldmap.org">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">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">http://www.michaelherman.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ronanparktrail.com">http://www.ronanparktrail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.chicagoconservationcorps.org">http://www.chicagoconservationcorps.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org">http://www.openspaceworld.org</a><br>
<br>
312-280-7838 (mobile)<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Harrison Owen <<a
href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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" target="_blank">www.openspaceworld.com</a><br>
Open Space Institute <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org" target="_blank">www.openspaceworld.org</a><br>
Personal website <a href="http://www.ho-image.com" target="_blank">www.ho-image.com</a><br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: OSLIST [mailto:<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>]
On Behalf Of Dirk<br>
Riehle<br>
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 1:43 PM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
Subject: Open Space Tech article on Wikipedia marked as spam, being readied<br>
for "speedy deletion"<br>
<br>
Subject line says it all, article is here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology</a><br>
<br>
Dirk<br>
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Website: <a href="http://dirkriehle.com" target="_blank">http://dirkriehle.com</a>
- Twitter: @dirkriehle<br>
Ph (DE): +49-157-8153-4150 - Ph (US): +1-650-450-8550<br>
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