Eleder: 1. I wish you the best of luck for both events. I can´t see any reason why you can not do the opening in both languges and then the participants, in esch group, will choose the language they want to speak. 2. I remember some years ago to participate in an event of IBM Spain in Barcelona. The presentations were all in castelhan, but the questions to the presenters and the discussions among participants were mainly in catalan... 3. When I have created some years ago the Iberian Wiki (http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/iberia.cgi?), that is now closed, my idea was to have a site in all the latin languages of the Iberian peninsula: portuguese, castelhano, catalan and gallician. Not knowing anyone who spoke basque, I am affraid that idea never come to my mind until know. And I never could find people from Catalunha or Galicia interested in Open Space. Not even from Spain, and the entries in spanish have been done by myself (in a very bas castellan) and then corrected by people from south america. 4. But now that I am plannning to try to create an Iberian OSI (I don´t know very well just now when and how) your participation both in castellano and basque will be very welcome Regards from Lisbon Mejores votos Artur
--- On Sun, 6/28/09, ELEDER AURTENETXE PILDAIN <eleder.aurtene...@gmail.com> wrote: From: ELEDER AURTENETXE PILDAIN <eleder.aurtene...@gmail.com> Subject: [OSLIST] MY FIRST OPEN SPACE experiences, coming soon To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 2:18 AM 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 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
