Michael and all:
I really do not
understand all this (these) conversation(s)...
First, all these
conversations began with a post in a blog from someone that is not here!
Then people began to "try to understand what he may have in his
mind"... As far as he has been invited to come here and has not accepted,
for me that discussion was over. (For those that are always reminding us of
"the principles" I would say that if "whoever comes are the
right people" then “whoever does not care to came are
not"!)
Second, traditions
- and even myth - are also part of a culture (in this case the culture of this
particular community). I can understand quite well the reason why a North
American community that until that had an annual meeting only in USA and
Canada, when managed it to came to Europe and then to go to Asia, South
America, etc. decided that it was time to give that meeting the name of
Worldwide OSonOS (WOSonOS). The fact that there is a worldwide annual meeting
of the all community and many different OSonOS at city, region, national, or
transnational
levels are not something that worries me. On the contrary, calling all
those many meetings "worldwide" bothers me for one, and only one,
reason - it is not true!
Also begin to count
all the OSonOS as if they were all equal or if that was possible (and, if
possible, would be worth doing) is something that I can't understand. It is
like counting all the OST events - they are innumerable by definition and the
most one can say is that they are in excess of some number...
I would prefer to analyze
things the other way round. As the majority of WOSonOS are held in English as
their main language (sometimes complemented with the opening and some sessions
also in other language) can we call that
"Worldwide"? I mean, for me it is not some much a question of
location but a question of language. And even of origin: wouldn’t it be nice to
have given access to WOSonOS2012 to the most interesting thing that happened
in the worldwide community this year and have Egypt represented by an Egyptian?
And
wouldn't it be nice to have given access to WOSonOS2012 to the person that
invited the community to Chile - or another that represented the organizing
team of WOSonOS2011?
Regards
Artur
PS: Sorry for any
misspellings - no time for English revisions
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From: Michael Herman <mich...@michaelherman.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OSList] OSONOS Whenever, Wherever, with Whomsoever (name change
from "Peggy..."
maybe the question i should be asking is why we don't call ALL of them
WOSONOS... and then... what would it look like if we developed a system for
anyone, anywhere, to distribute their osonos invitation to the World? oslist
is perhaps the only global system needed for such distribution, but maybe there
is more we can do to support more invitings? this suggesting implies, i think,
that it's not important if the World actually attends... but rather that the
hosts are Inviting the whole world, and inviting the depth that comes with that
expansiveness.
yes, like harrison says, anyone can do it and nobody's in charge... and... i
don't think the community has supported multiple Wosonos events in the same
year... i think only because of habit and inertia. what i'm suggesting is that
ANYONE can, and anyone who wants to should, invite the world... and it's the
host who decides to call it a Wosonos or not -- and then the only community
decision-making is truly distributed and the whole world decides whether or not
to go particpate.
i think it's cleaner to drop the W because not all osonos events/hosts
necessarily want to be for the World, and i'd rather count them all --
emphasizing the purpose of practitioners learning about open space in open
space and de-emphasizing who might come from how far away.
i'd like to hear more from others here about this edge between preserving
structures we've made together over time, like osonos and wosonos on the one
hand and newcomers, emergence and one more thing to not do (anymore) on the
other.
m
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Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
312-280-7838 (mobile)
http://MichaelHerman.com
http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
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