Eleder - Good Show! As for Opening Space in Basque and/or Spanish -- OF course! I don't have a clue how many different languages have been used so far. We do know that OS has been used in 136 counties so there must be a whole bunch. If you check www.openspaceworld.org <http://www.openspaceworld.org/> you will find information on some of those uses, including the 4 Principles and I Law in multiple languages. It would be great add Basque (if it is not already there). Spanish has been there for quite some time.
Harrison Harrison Owen 189 Beaucaire Ave Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 (Summer) 301-365-2093 (Winter) Website www.openspaceworld.com Personal Website www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options <http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html> http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html _____ From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of ELEDER AURTENETXE PILDAIN Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 5:18 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: MY FIRST OPEN SPACE experiences, coming soon Hello, hello! I just write some lines to tell you about my first Open Space experiences that are taking place next days in Eibar and Bilbao: 1. Tomorrow I'll be facilitating an Open Space in Eibar. Some months ago I proposed "Sormena <http://ikastaroak.ueu.org/component/ikastaroak/ikastaro/47.html> Espazio Irekian" (meaning "Creativity in Open Space") as a day and a half meeting about creativity, in which we will be opening space tomorrow between 11:00 and 18:00, and this will be the main part of the meeting. We will be keeping the OS in Basque language and I find it specially fullfilling being so, as this kind of "avantguard" activity takes seldom place in this ancestral but less used tongue of our country. 2. The 9th of July I'll be facilitating OS again, this time at home, in Bilbao. It'll be a one day meeting to find financing alternatives for a group of about 6 people that run 3 small freeware enterprises that deal with computer security,... Their projects are facing finance troubles and have to rethink theim. They should have good alternatives soon as, otherwise, they would be closing in September. Regarding this OS, I wonder if opening space in Basque and Spanish language would work OK and what I should take into account if I did so, something I'm quite bended towards. Ours is a diglosic community with everybody knowing Spanish. Around 50% of potential comers are able to communicate in Basque. Having the space to do so would be a kind surprise and inspiring for some of them. Having to express themeselves in Spanish (one more time) would be the expected (and, sometimes unconsciously, frustrating) thing for some of the comers,... Besides, myself I'm someone that loves Basque language and doing stuff that helps it reflourish... I first knew about OS when I read Tom Atlee's book "The Tao of Democracy" and it really stroke me. Some ten years have passed since and recently I've decided to take it on and try it. Harrison's OST book, all these fantastic people on the list-community ant the site itself are great support to prepare something that is so much common sense, but so rare these days. Whatever happens will be the only thing that could have happened, sure :-)! Kind regards, Eleder Aurtenetxe Pildain BM31 www.burumapak.blogspot.com BILBAO * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
