Here is the story-MY story of Interactive Organizations Gathering in Istanbul.
Jo and Michael had asked me if i would like to host 3rd IAO gathering in
November 2005,
i had accepted and started thinking about it.
I had been exchanging thoughts, ideas, suggestions with many friends from the
OSlist
in and outside the list and with many friends around me since January 2006.
In April 2006 i started preparing the invitation. Can Uludag made the pictures.
You can still have a look at the invitation on the turkish ost web site :
www.acikalanteknolojisi.com
Starting from June and until September 2006 i worked on the text of invitation,
exchanging ideas
with various friends.
In September 1000 invitations have been printed.
>From september till the event ( 24-26 nov.) i disributed invitations by post
>and by e-mail.
I sent invitations by post to everybody who heard about the event and/ or who
heard about ost
from me. I distributed them to cafees, to universities, to friends, relatives
etc. In total
i distributed around 700 printed invitations and more then 1000 invitations
including the ones i sent by e-mail.
A school friend who runs a public relations company helped me to announce the
event through the
media. An interview with me about ost was published in a business newspaper. In
adddition, an annoucement
about IAO event has been published on several news web sites, magazines and
newspapers.
In september i visited the multinational company that Gail also was referring
to in her message. I knew how much
OST contributed to their work ( i didn't work there with ost but i knew someone
who was in charge of the use of ost).
I asked them to be the sponsor of this event and/ or to paticipate in the event.
Unfortunately they couldn't support the event financially, they couldn't
participate in the event neither.
1 week ago from the event i heard that mmp and jo couldn't participate.
There were few people who had registered to the gathering.
I extended a final invitation to all my close friends saying
" I gave you too much headache with my obsession to this thing called ost, now
i invite you to take part in iao istanbul
so that you can experience it. I owe you this invitation as i took your time
and energy. Moreover i need your
support. The door will be open come whenever you want to. It's better if you
are there at least for the opening.
Please feel free to join us and don't worry if you can not"
Around 50 people were confirmed they would be there at least for the opening.
25 showed up at the opening. The others: someome had forgetten, some had crises
at work, some had other things to do,
some couldn't come because of traffic.....whatever
I just said few words as the sponsor. Mia opened the space wonderfully.
Then perfect!.....they started raising up issues so quickly and such deep
issues and questions!
There is no word to describe my feelings about being with all these people who
are very important to me and to my life in an
ost meeting.
We were 13 at the closing session. Everbody came up with many projects and
ideas.
At the closing, i told about YOUR support , i told them how much i felt your
eyes
were watching us and your hearts were beating with ours during the event.
I invested one year of time for the event.
I invested around 3500 euro.
I did this because i believe in OST and i aslo believe in the power and use of
the
"InterActive Organizations" as a concept.
The pictures will be uploaded to some web site, i will later share them with
you.
Thanks,
All the best,
Funda
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