Dear friends in Open Space Still here in Kiev I promised to send some conclusions from the last session of WOSonOS can´t connect to Internet here (without paying) so I just hope it fits to the story shared by Andrew.
Greetings from Ukraine. There sure was one irresistible offer made for the 2008 WOSonOS! In fact the people who joined for the circle to work on the decisions on future WOSonOSs almost made the decision before the offer was made. But after some persuasion they agreed on experiencing the fantastic show from the marvelous production manager (living a bit closer to Hollywood) Lisa Heft. So WOSonOS 2008 will take place in San Francisco! One proposal was made for 2009 Taiwan made an offer to host WOSonOS forwarded by Andrew Ballance from UK. The group concluded that they strongly support the offer made. There was a quite lengthy discussion regarding the change towards making decision two years ahead of time instead of one. There were both pros and cons raised from keeping it as simple as possible to allowing more time for planning travel/preparation (in a follow up session in a bar towards midnight the issue of obtaining visas was also raised). The conclusion was made that this is not the right time to make that decision one reason being that this should have been made clear so that others could have prepared and presented their offers for 2009. So the circle of participants showed their strong support towards Taiwan hosting WOSonOS 2009 but wanted the actual decision to be made next year, in SF. The group also wished that giving some more advance notice such as now would make a decision to have a 2 year leadtime easier on the next WOSonOS. For all those who want to host future WOSonOSs we heard a rumor that there is a video produced called How to present an irresistable WOSonOS-offer around somewhere... Thomas really thinks that the stand in-Access Queen Eva P made great work, of course together with the generous participants - 105 dollars and 45 EUROS were raised for the fund which helps people access these marvelous events. ... and we´ve had SUCH A GREAT TIME in Kiev great city, great hospitality, lovely meetings and wonderful people. Many many more stories to share.... now we´re heading for another tour. With love, from our hotel lobby Thomas and Eva * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
