Dear OS Community,
WOSonOS hosting team have got a very interesting feedback from Tree
Fitzpatrick.
I'm not going to comment it but I feel responsibility to share this
mail with all of you.
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have ...
Best regards,
Yana Demenko
[e-mail] [email protected]
[post] p.o.box 4B, Kyiv-1, 01001, Ukraine
[web] www.demenko.info
[skype] yana_demenko
Begin forwarded message:
From: Tree Fitzpatrick [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:21 AM
To: GURT Resource Centre for NGO Development
Subject: Re: Invitation to 15th Worldwide Open Space on Open Space
I have absolutely no interest in attending the OSonOS in Kiev this
year. I am writing to tell you why I am not interested. And I am
writing to complain that you have sent me this invitation. Where
did you get my email? You did not have my permission to use it.
I was disappointed that people at OSonOS in Moscow hijacked this
important international gathering of OS practitioners from around
the world and insisted on taking the event to Kiev this year. The
OSonOS gathering belongs to practitioners around the world and it
has norms and traditions that you folks refused to honor when you
decided to 'steal' the event to Kiev this year. A key tradition of
OSonOS International has been to move around the world.
I understand that one of your organizers was very aggressive in
Moscow, insisting on forcing OSonOS to Kiev. This makes me angry
and under no circumstances would I attend an event that was
demanded like this: I feel like coming would be tantamount to
giving in to a child after he had a tantrum. You folks in Kiev
were free to steal the event. . . but you could never win my
support of it.
And, parenthetically, as it happens, Raffi did something similar at
Halifax OSonOS in 2005. The group was leaning towards having
OSonOS 2006 in Scotland and Raffi stood up and said "I don't care
what you people want, there is going to be an international OSonOS
in Moscow this year" and the Halifax group gave in to Raffi. I
mention this because now I am wondering if the Slavic world is
littered with bullies who think that imposing their will on people
is good collaboration?
I also wonder if whoever that guy was, it was someone from Kiev who
was in Moscow at last year's conference, really gives a shit about
the rest of the world of OS practitioners. I wonder if this guy
realizes that senior OS practitioners all over the world have heard
about this behavior.
I venture to guess that you are going to have a very low turnout at
this event. I suspect lots of people feel the way I do, that the
conference was birthed in an atmosphere of coersion, which is NOT
open space at all, is it?
Please don't send me any more emails. I have reported you to my
email provider as spam.
--
Love rays,
Tree Fitzpatrick
http://thecultureoflove.blogspot.com/
. . . the great and incalculable grace of love, which says, with
Augustine, "I want you to be," without being able to give any
particular reason for such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation.
-- Hannah Arendt
1335 Montecito Ave Apt. 35
Mountain View, California 94043
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