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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for sharing the announcement, Peggy, and the fact that it sounded odd to you. It doesn't sound odd to me ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me explain why. And explain also why some comments on your
post sounded odd to me...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as this will take a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Some years ago took place in my campus of my University a (more
or less) annual conference of the "College of Computer Engineering"
of the "Portuguese Engineers Association" (Ordem dos Engenheiros -
OE). I have been invited to conduct a big part of the one and an half day event
in OST. I was even made a member of the Organizing Committee (OC) for that
purpose. It must be said that, in the mentioned College, the members are </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">in their large majority</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> academics and not (real) computer engineering
professionals. The idea was to profit from the fact that the event was held at
an University and with a friendly methodology to try to have students and young
engineers to joint the event and the OE. But with the composition of the
college board (5 academics and one professional) I could not convince the OC to
do all the event in OST and had to accept that the first morning was composed
of presentations. In a first moment 3 presentations were though but
than it came to 6 because "if we invite the University of XXX, we also have to invite someone from the University of YYY... You know that game.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6 presentations by Professors in one morning is something that
will never interest young professionals, so the attendants were mainly Professors
and their students - and some old professionals too. Myself I attended two presentations and then went for a nap in my office. Anyhow, the dynamics of the all event
was already corrupted. The OST event (one afternoon followed by one morning)
was considered a success, but I was not very happy (there are photos of the
event at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">the NING).</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. On the other hand, during the years I have attended a lot of
professional, academic and civic conferences and meetings and it is always the
same. In each part, 3 or 4 presentations by "specialist" (that almost
never respected the schedule) and a very small amount of time for dialog (indeed
questions and answers) that shrinks with the retard of each presenter and, in
some cases, ends up not existing at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is normally planed for each 1,5 hour session is three 20
minutes presentations followed by 30 minutes questions or debates but it seems
that both organizers and speakers have "horror of emptiness” (the void) – “and,
what will happen, if no one asks a question?”, so they fill the void with more words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The interesting part is that those organizers and presenters are
often the ones that say that we now live in a "knowledge society", and
that "all problems being complex, we need interdisciplinary thinking", but then
forget that people more knowledgeable than the presenter are often in the
audience, and often a multidisciplinary audience is in front of them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Many unconference methods have appeared in the last years, the
majority of them having some similarities with OST, and at least respecting the
OS spirit, if not the letter of OST. When we compare this with the traditional conferences
the unconferences are, indeed, much more OPEN than the traditional ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. I remember reading Harrison, more that once, tell us that he
anticipates a future where no one will talk anymore about open space technology,
because open space will be the normal way of doing meetings and conferences. I
also believe in that. But I am almost sure that those unconferences will be
something that the elders will say that "it is similar to OST, but it is
not OST" or even "it is not even similar to OST". And that is
true and, for one, I am glad with that. As any other living thing, OST will
evolve in the Universal Open Space (or the void) and it will become something
different. If it is more open and less controlled by some authorities (political,
academic, or OST-ortodoxes), than I will be happy with that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Indeed I am planning to propose in the near future to some
civic and professional organizations, to stop doing conferences, and begin
doing unconferences with a model that is similar to the one that Peggy
mentioned. People can prepare papers and or presentations but there is no guaranty
that they will be accepted. There will not be a revision by their peers (that
often have lobby relations between them - and, from the references in each
paper, one can almost always discover where a paper comes from), but will be
decided "by the crowd" in an "OS way": a circle, a bulletin
board, sessions announced and the ones choosen will take place - and lets go to
work. The speakers will be allowed to make a short presentation (15 to 20
minutes is more than enough - and, by large, much more than enough when the
presentation is boring) and, in each hour, the rest of the time is for real
dialog between the participants, the presenter having no special role in that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. I have not yet come out with a division of time like the one of
this Conference (18+42+30) - and I am not even convinced that an "action
period" is justified in all cases - but I know from experience that if one
says to a presenter that he/she may have 20 minutes he/she thinks that it means
“<b>not more that 30 minutes</b>” and will often
continue speaking until someone call him/her to order. If we say that he has 18
minutes it means that he is <b>less than 19 minutes </b>- and that makes a big difference! I like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><o:p>Regards</o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><o:p><br></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><o:p>Artur</o:p></div></div><div id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_54" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_59_1375883204762_57"><span> </span></div><div><br id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_56"></div> <div style="font-family:
verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_59" class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_58"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_111"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Peggy Holman <peggy@peggyholman.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Open Listserv <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:26 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSList] Fwd: Announcing The 23rd Annual Systems Thinking In Action Conference!<br> </font> </div> <div class="yiv0842243536y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv0842243536"><base><div>I'm curious if anyone from the OS community is involved with STIA. They're
references to Open Space sure sound odd to me:<div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);margin:0px;padding:0px;"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" style=""><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding:10px 20px;"><div align="center"><table cellpadding="0" width="600" cellspacing="0" border="0" style=""><tbody><tr><td id="yiv0842243536main_body" width="600" bgcolor="#F0F0F0" style="padding:30px;background-color:rgb(240, 240, 240);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(217, 217, 217) rgb(217, 217, 217) rgb(185, 185, 185);"><div align="center"><table cellpadding="0" width="600" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0px;"><div align="center"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(29, 29, 27);"
class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_123"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><div class="yiv0842243536body-container-wrapper"><table class="yiv0842243536wrappertable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" style=""><tbody><tr><td valign="top" colspan="12" width="100.0%" class="yiv0842243536" style="width:600px;text-align:left;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(29, 29, 27);"><div class="yiv0842243536widget-span yiv0842243536widget-type-email_body "><span id="yiv0842243536hs_cos_wrapper_hs_email_body" class="yiv0842243536hs_cos_wrapper yiv0842243536hs_cos_wrapper_widget yiv0842243536hs_cos_wrapper_type_rich_text"><ul id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_328"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Open Space:</b> Most of the speakers and topics will be selected by the attendees using Open Space technology.</div></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br
class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_330"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Truly Open Space:</b> STIA 2013 sessions will be truly open - 18
minutes of presentation followed by 42 minutes of Q&A and discussion, followed by 30 minutes of action. Remember 18+42+30!</div></li></ul></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></div><div></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);margin:0px;padding:0px;"><table bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" style=""><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding:10px 20px;"><div align="center"><table cellpadding="0" width="600" cellspacing="0" border="0" style=""><tbody><tr><td id="yiv0842243536main_body" width="600" bgcolor="#F0F0F0" style="padding:30px;background-color:rgb(240, 240, 240);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(217, 217, 217) rgb(217, 217, 217) rgb(185, 185, 185);"><div align="center"><table
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yiv0842243536hs_cos_wrapper_type_rich_text"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Speakers:</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;">Contact us at <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:stia2013@stiatemenos.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:stia2013@stiatemenos.com">stia2013@stiatemenos.com</a> to register interest and participate in the Open Space speaker / topic selection.</div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div>Peggy</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="yiv0842243536Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;" class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_158"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;" class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_159">Siraj Sirajuddin <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:siraj@stiatemenos.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:siraj@stiatemenos.com">siraj@stiatemenos.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;" class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_161"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"
class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_162"><b>Announcing The 23rd Annual Systems Thinking In
Action Conference!</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;" class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_164"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;" class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_165">August 6, 2013 11:12:27 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;" class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_167"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;" class="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_168"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:peggy@opencirclecompany.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:peggy@opencirclecompany.com">peggy@opencirclecompany.com</a><br></span></div><div
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class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;">Dear friends of STIA,</div><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;">Greetings! I am honored to inform you that Temenos, LLC has acquired the assets and title of the conference we all know well as Systems Thinking in Action. I am humbled, and will strive to be a diligent steward of our community as we continue the path of building our work together. I look forward to receiving guidance from you during this journey.</div><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;">I have a simple vision for this conference …<b>"accessibility for everyone, everywhere."</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;">Toward that vision, I am pleased to announce the 23rd Annual
Systems Thinking In Action ® Conference, to be held at<span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.hubspotanalytics.com/email/v1/click?v=2&e=H4sIAAAAAAAAAEWPPUvDQACGERzcdNbNoXSJTc5-pELQNmloaWpDSxvsEo7zmpzmPnK5COnu4C_wHzj4bxzc_CHFyYsgrg-87_u8R6-fxycv71-Hp98HqVLiqtVCnG2xxAxhhJnC8gJxel0qGiNIBSQJcwpFoAFM67JR44KXEmEnLWJMIcl-&e0=GcX3pKTOP9ClSrc5_b6OAasRp4VecAQY3OZqZ9hVF4vHclZ0t0M1j6zJxu_544VFXA9UMVoOFihK5oGsQjC640HmyvVyIsF42A6LJIcbPpVP5g5GU-iKKDegT9CqI9c9rxOEPnT99komJrcNNZOgZN4DrwUo-dM5PxM4SaobLrQUkSjD-rOA&e1=rKq_N_f7j7fnpp3_AF27OfksAQAA"><b>The National Conference Center</b></a><span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span>(NCC) in the Washington DC Metro Area, November 14th-16th, 2013. The conference theme for this year is "STIA Mashup - Systems Thinking + Temenos + Individuation + Agility."</div><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br
class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;">The STIA 2013 conference will be a container of experiments, planned to test our hypothesis about how to create conferences that are vibrant, useful and sustainable for our communities.</div><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_332"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Temenos:</b><span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span>STIA 2013 will be a fully residential conference and all attendees, speakers and sponsors will be part of a deep, community-building experience that will result in the creation of a compelled shared vision for the STIA community. This vision will be presented during the conference closing.</div></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b> </b></div><ul
id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_334"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Moving
Keynotes:</b><span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span>STIA 2013 will showcase some of the most prestigious and memorable keynote speakers that have engaged previous STIA audiences.<span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.hubspotanalytics.com/email/v1/click?v=2&e=H4sIAAAAAAAAAEWQsU7CQACGE-PgprNuDoSlHLQFWpNGgYoBaaFANExNuR7tSe96ba9tjt3BJ-ANHHwbBzcfhNFiYly_5P_z5Tvbf51fvH18n17uT0LO2Q0AZVk2Iky3yMe0AWMCWL4GpQQjvNlIW09kKJUwxqANtI4OtHX7NufEhR5hHg6o&e0=kXHsSXKzpdSOOIvzFCIjzFxEPBz9MlI958T4BzCmHFFu6Ho1k1s1N8wQhQaTe3bCd5K2MgXrDRei8LcWKSbw3hk9onQguqayWSUd5iO_nD2og2y-Xj4vZrZtdXj_Zan2HbpAvUDNxu5YNeet7kidFonJJ37Tpopb7J5MO9RTNC38YYgcS0C5&e1=63iBdRQg-E_n-oqhIBB3MaukcAojVEVhHhXHOPXD4fP9ta4lP3lqN8ZJAQAA"><b>Cliff Kayser</b></a>has graciously offered to be our opening Keynote speaker! (His powerful speech and poetry recital moved attendees of 2012)!</div></li></ul><div
style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b> </b></div><ul id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_336"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>STIA Mashup:</b><span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span>STIA 2013 will feature a creative mixture of tracks / sessions from knowledge areas that surround, enhance and complement Systems Thinking. “STIA Mashup = Systems Thinking + Temenos + Individuation + Agility”.</div></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_338"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Accessible Pricing:</b><span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span>The STIA 2013 registration fee will be $99 for the first month only to enable anyone to participate! (There is an additional $800 residential fee which is inclusive of lodging and meals for all
registrants.)</div></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_340"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Open Space:</b><span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span>Most of the speakers and topics will be selected by the attendees using Open Space technology.</div></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_342"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Truly Open Space:</b><span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span>STIA 2013 sessions will be truly open - 18 minutes of presentation followed by 42 minutes of Q&A and discussion, followed by 30 minutes of action. Remember 18+42+30!</div></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br
class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_344"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Breathing Space:</b><span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span>STIA 2013 will have a sustainable pace. We will have a 30 minute break between each session for debriefing and relaxation. There will be no need to rush between sessions and meeting rooms. This conference will promote the enjoyment of networking and afford attendees the time to take in the outside nature.</div></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul id="yiv0842243536yui_3_7_2_42_1375865581092_346"><li dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Open Pre-Conferences:</b><span class="yiv0842243536Apple-converted-space"> </span>All participants are welcome to create, market and facilitate Pre-Conference Workshops, Events,
Seminars, and Labs, keeping in mind the agreement of a $99 registration fee per
participant. </div></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;"><b>Attendee Registration</b></div><div style="margin-bottom:1em;"> <br class="yiv0842243536webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:1em;">HURRY! The first registration wave of Early Bird Pricing for $99 is now open and will last only through August 30. Please register here<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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