Id be happy to help put together a virtual one, but I don't know we have to wait till 2025... On Sep 15, 2014 11:01 AM, "Harold Shinsato" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Lisa, > > Thanks for your wonderful support of the WOSonOS's. This might deserve > another thread if people want to discuss, as there was some virtual open > dialog about our selection process on the OSList last year while it was > happening on site, and the selection process for Serbia was turbulent - and > definitely interesting. It was certainly emergent. But just for the record, > here are the 2015+ invitations offered last year. Not just China. > > Spain - 2015 - Ian Barber > Mexico - 2015 - Livia Olivera, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring > China - 2015 or 2016 - QingHua Song, Hulu Chen > Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 - Devon Morris > Chicago, IL - 2020 - Devon Morris > Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 - Devon Morris > > Regards, > Harold > > On 9/14/14 6:23 PM, Lisa Heft - wrote: > > Hi, folks. Access Queen here again. > > Another thing I do as Access Queen is to collect and share best practices and > lessons-learned from each year’s WOSonOS Host Team, and fold them into a > growing living document. > > Nobody says you have to do a WOSonOS in a certain way. And you can host these > things whenever or whoever you feel so inspired. > For example, I have been hosting an Open Space on Open Space (and on all > things facilitation) every Spring in the San Francisco region, for years now. > You are all invited, and I will post that date on this list. > > However, it is interesting to see that the Host Teams from 2001 onward - > since I have began this shared-wisdom document - name the same > lessons-learned. > Some of which inform how they announced or invited, or had ample or > insufficient funding to cover their expenses, or realized how the design of a > WOSonOS / OSonOS is different than how they might design an Open Space > meeting for an organization’s task or exploration. And there are some fun > traditions that happen each year, as well. > > Again: you can do it all in your own way. You can start your own traditions. > However if you are thinking of hosting a WOSonOS next year or in the future, > do contact me directly and I will send you this “Wisdom from Past Hosts” > document. > > By the way - typically each year at a WOSonOS one or more teams invite the > WOSonOS to their country for the next year, or for a future year. Right there > before the Closing Circle / end of the conference. > Our Chinese colleagues made a lovely invitation to host the next WOSonOS when > they came to the 2013 WOSonOS in Florida, USA. > I am wondering if they may bring their voice and invitation to Serbia to say > so again. WONDERFUL team! > Sometimes a team will offer for a few years in a row, because there may be > several teams who step forward to invite at once, and then typically the > people attending the WOSonOS chat and decide together in some way which > country across the world the WOSonOS will travel to for the next year. > > Please know that you do *not* have to be present at a WOSonOS to invite to > your country for a future year. However it really does help, I think, to have > attended one or more WOSonOSs first, to know how that particular event feels > and might be structured. You can ask someone you know is going to a WOSonOS > to invite on your behalf. A great thing is to design an invitation that > really gives the cultural flavor and passion for your country. > > I invited three years in a row before the group selected my country for the > following year. > Whenever it starts is the right time. > There were other wonderful inviters and other wonderful countries were chosen > before mine, which was perfect. > I have a lovely memory of Thomas and Eva from Sweden representing me one year > - I was an egg, wasn’t I? And… I broke, didn’t I? > All well, I feel much better now. > > Anyway. > Contact me directly if you would like to receive this document to inform your > country team’s thought and planning for potentially hosting a future WOSonOS. > And I am sadly not attending this year but do let someone on this list know > if you would like them to plan with you how *they* can creatively represent > you when it is invitation time at the conference… > > Lisa > > Lisa Heft > Opening Space > > > > > -- > Harold Shinsato > [email protected] > http://shinsato.com > twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >
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