Hi there…

I’m “off the grid” and incommunicado for a week, maybe longer, following an 
abdominal surgery I just had.  It went well but it’s rather painful and 
requires bedrest to heal after I’m home from the hospital.  (Note to self:  
figure out better ways of taking time off).

Be well,
Dirk

PS - for the curious: an operation I had years ago included a secondary 
incision besides the primary one.  That secondary incision (on my belly) 
herniated, and needed to be repaired.

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> From: Eleder_BuM via OSList <[email protected]>
> To: Michael Herman <[email protected]>,       World wide Open Space
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> Hello family!
> 
> I find having a local  (yearly or every 2 years) osonos very stimulating.
> In the Basque Country we started in 2013 (bOSonOS; I knew in Krakow, that
> Berliners had done quite many bOSonOS, too) and we are having quite much
> fun. The invitation is always open to everyone. Probably we?ll  keep doing
> bOSONOS for some years, the local community will grow and, little by little
> people from far away will like coming.
> 
> Maybe one day we?ll invite for wosonos. If a good bunch of fellows are
> eager to share the task so as everyone can enjoy it. If we one day decide
> to invite, I suppose it will be quite simple. Then, if people decide to
> come *wosonosing*, great. If not, very fine too (one less thing to take
> care of :).
> 
> I love attending the international ones from time to time. Enriching, as it
> makes possible meeting many new practitioners, and OS is people, as life
> is, too, people -for me, mainly
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ1J9d27aA0>-. Krakow was fantastic, as
> ever.
> 
> I find myself very comfortable when attending an osonos where 30-70 people
> attend. Enough variety and not too overwhelming. More manageable.
> 
> I love knowing that the OS community grows on and on, and we are getting to
> have several osonos yearly around the world. This way, when one is really
> eager to attend one, the "difficulty" would be on oneself, deciding "which
> great party will I attend now"? It seems that something like this is
> already happening, great!
> 
> I suppose we take on too much responsibility and work because we assume
> that the more people come, the better (And, what about "Whoever comes...?").
> 
> I find, too, that, specially when international, we tend to take on too
> much burden as invitors. For example,...
> 
> 
>   - Does the fact that many people will be coming by plane make it more
>   difficult for the invitors to manage it? Why?
>   - The payment issue, ... does it involve too much work? What would be
>   the cons of just allowing paying cash on the site?
>   - Is a fancy website really required? Or could we even registrate with
>   an email an d having attendees fill in a 3 minutes form?
>   - Does the food standard of the meeting tend to be too "smart", "high
>   quality",... making it more difficult for the sponsors to hold? Why?
>   - Is organizing a parallel online wosonos really required? Knowing that
>   the permanent Wosonos is happening all the time on the OSLIST and other
>   places online?
>   - Maybe some of us feel the burden of showing the world "what our nation
>   is like?..."
> 
> 
>   - *Which other details are the ones that make it specially hard
>   convening wosonos,* (apart from taking or assuming the decisions on how
>   to manage language diversity)*?*
> 
> Having had so many wars all around the world for centuries,...Maybe it puts
> an extra psychological burden on the invitors, wherever they live? Maybe we
> tend to make a special effort to make it clear all over the world that "we
> are lovely people":)?
> 
> 
> Regarding the decision on how to decide "where next wosonos"? What
> are the special features of wosonos? Maybe that you?ll usually meet there
> more os-nicks than in a regular osonos (= that it?s bigger)? maybe that
> you?ll meet with people of a wider part of the planet (= that it feels more
> diverse)? Perhaps knowing that there are many people that repeat the
> experience during years and special bonds appear, and you can get to
> know/become more part of this big family?
> 
> I like the original spirit and I find that we could make it that simple now
> too,...
> 
> *"Some nice soul just said, ?Come See us.? If two people had similar
> inclinations, but different places in mind, who ever spoke second covered
> the following year. No fuss, no bother and in 10 minutes time the essential
> arrangements were made."*
> 
> 
> I assume that whoever invites is full of passion and able to host us in OS.
> And that OS, it?ll always be the same and it?ll be also very different each
> time.
> 
> In fact it?s the people coming, the participants, who make the OS
> experience.
> 
> In an osonos, a specially high percentage of participants know it, we are
> the ones that know it best :)! So why do we care so much (I feel) about who
> the invitors+facilitators are and sometimes seem to evaluate if they are
> really prepared to hold the event?
> 
> I hope this chaotic and disperse ideas add something to the conversation.
> 
> Enjoy life!
> 
> Eleder
> 
> 
> 2015-09-30 22:42 GMT+02:00 Michael Herman via OSList <
> [email protected]>:
> 
> thanks for raising these questions, pernilla.  what you're proposing in
> terms of people (rather than countries!) coming forward at the beginning of
> the gathering makes great sense to me.  these invitations can be offered at
> any time, of course, including a week or a month before the wosonos
> gathering time.  if our tradition were to evolve in that direction, there
> could be some commenting on that in advance of the gathering.
> 
> at the same time, the thing that makes for the pressure and scarcity and
> overall un-OS feeling of this situation isn't really a question of when the
> invites are offered, but that we have developed this habit of having only
> one of these gatherings at once, or one per year, or more specifically that
> we designate just one as *the* world osonos, even though nordic and haitian
> and camden and oz folks and some other have had significant series of
> osonos gatherings.
> 
> i really like the idea that these things could happen on several
> continents at once, so the wosonos had multiple sites.  progress of tools
> like qiqochat offer interesting possibilities of being able to easily
> bumblebee across oceans.  we've also been growing a tradition of spinning
> these things up into major productions, perhaps drifting some from the
> simple power of our core practice.  if we met in more places at once and
> traveled shorter distances, maybe the hosts would feel less pressure to
> "work too hard" an planning and organizing these things?
> 
> what if the wosonos could evolve in the direction of a kind of
> world-around OS carnival/retreat/learning exchange week?  many invites,
> many parties, i mean working sessions?
> 
> michael
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Michael Herman
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> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
> 
> Pernilla ? It always amazes me how simple things complexify and
> happenstantial acts suddenly become ?intricate tradition.?
> 
> 
> 
> Back in the day, long ages ago, having an Open Space on Open Space (OSONOS)
> seemed like a  fun thing to do. I think it took me all of 4-5 hours (total)
> to organize it, and the ?fee? for attendance was $25. Actually, truth to
> tell, I did charge something like $200 for the first one on the grounds
> that there was some value added on my part. But after  the first one, when
> it became quite clear that I really didn?t do a thing... we got back to
> something reasonable. That was $25 to cover Post-its, magic markers, News
> Print, etc.  And when it came to figuring out where it was going to
> ?happen? next ? the process was indeed elaborate. Some nice soul just said,
> ?Come See us.? If two people had similar inclinations, but different places
> in mind, who ever spoke second covered the following year. No fuss, no
> bother and in 10 minutes time the essential arrangements were made.
> 
> 
> 
> I don?t know when or how,  but things started to drag on. I am sure a lot
> of folks didn?t see it the same way I did, but I have to confess that I
> found my two feet working if the discussion of ?next place? lasted more
> than about 10 minutes... being a person of very short attention span. I
> have been to most OSONOS?s and loved every one. But a few years ago it did
> seem to me that we were working much too hard. It also seemed that having
> *THE* (W)OSONOS was somehow a strangely competitive situation. Definitely
> working too hard!
> 
> 
> 
> As far as I was concerned anyone, anywhere should invite whomsoever to
> wherever. OSONOS all over! And just to make the point I tried two such
> things in Camden Maine. OSONOS-by-the-Sea, I called it. I think I broke my
> record when it came to organizing time. If I said 3 hours, that would be
> stretching it. We were filled out in about 48 hours and the fee was $25,
> most of which I gave to Lisa for her good work. When it came to
> accommodations, I just provided the website of the Chamber of Commerce, and
> suggested that anybody who was coming might check it out and find a nice
> bed/meal/front porch. A local parish let us have the use of their Hall (for
> a small fee) ? and we were in business. Actually the fee that they proposed
> was so ridiculously low that I doubled it ? and we still gave most of the
> money to Lisa! Go figure.
> 
> 
> 
> Maybe it is catching? I notice that Andrew Rixon is welcoming folks to
> Melbourne and I am looking forward to joining Mrs. Song and friends in
> Beijing shortly. And then of course Manila is upcoming. And what?s
> happening in Sweden?
> 
> 
> 
> This seems to have gone on for a bit. And I do have a bottom line: If it
> ain?t fun, don?t do it. And if you are working too hard, that definitely
> begins to cut into the fun. So Pernilla, in an odd sort of way, I just want
> to get back to basics ? Would that be tradition? Make it fun. Make it
> simple. Open Space wherever you can, and amazing things always happen. The
> more the merrier!!!!
> 
> 
> 
> Harrison
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Lisa Heft - via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> How wonderful, your invitation, in all its richness, Pernilla.
> 
> Another two things I would like to add:
> 
> 1) As always, for any team interested in hosting a WOSonOS for a future
> year, I have a growing living letter of lessons-learned - gathered wisdom
> from past host teams, that has been growing since 2001 and that I happily
> offer to whoever wishes to contact me. My request is that if you, dear
> reader, are thinking ?oh that is something I / we will ask Lisa for? then
> please wait until a few weeks from now, as I will in a few weeks update it
> with the latest Host Team?s lessons-learned.
> 
> And 2) As has happened at several years in the past, including at our
> recent WOSonOS  - you as a Host Team / Host Team representative do not have
> to be physically present at a WOSonOS in order to invite. Several of us
> have over the years acted as representatives for teams wishing to invite
> who were not able to physically make it. And you can make us do whatever
> you like, to represent you !
> 
> Looking forward to the conversation,
> Lisa
> 
> 
> On Sep 30, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Pernilla Luttropp via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> At the inspiring WOSONOS in Krak?w there were some learning conversations
> on how this community  goes about when expressing and accepting invitations
> from countries/places to host the upcoming WOSONOSes.
> 
> In the big circle there were voices that expressed some confusion and
> discomfort with the process. Others said that whatever happened, they would
> trust the process. There was also the mentioning of ?traditions? and the
> ways things are usually done at a WOSONOS. And the reminder that traditions
> are made in every single now and ?Whatever happens is the only thing that
> could have?.
> 
> 
> *If you are new to WOSONOS *This is how it?s usually done (I think): the
> countries that wish to host the next WOSONOS makes an invitation at the
> closing circle of the WOSONOS and the participants are free to accept any
> of the invitations. The process of accepting the invitation is sometimes
> done by some kind of ?voting? procedure in order to agree on one place.
> There is often someone who reminds everybody that the only way to ?vote? in
> Open Space is by applying ?The law of mobility?. There is no need to only
> have one WOSONOS, there could be multiple since ?Wherever it happens is the
> right place?.
> 
> 
> *My view *I am personally very uncomfortable to use the words ?voting?
> or to ?make a collective decision? within an Open Space. One of the
> beauties with Open Space is taking responsibility for your own engagement.
> If we all share the same engagement we will walk in the same direction,
> eventually. But sometimes it takes time for things to emerge.
> If a group decides on voting there are many good methods and it?s of
> outmost importance for those present to understand what they are about to
> do, in order to make an informed decision. Is it a majority decision? How
> many is the majority? What happens if some vote no? Is it possible to have
> a ballot vote? Is it the role of the facilitator to sum it up and make the
> final decision? In my view, we can only express our appreciation for the
> invitation at the Open Space, offer help if needed and make use of the law
> of mobility.
> 
> 
> *An invitation *This is an invitation to try something else and maybe to
> let go of a ?tradition?. What if we opened up at the beginning of the
> process in order to see how it self organizes at the end?
> There seems to be something unclear about the ?tradition? on how to get
> information about who is inviting and why. If that information were
> transparent from the very start of the WOSONOS, it might enable more
> dialogue with the inviting hosts and between the hosts.
> 
> The countries/places that wish to host a future WOSONOS could post this
> on the OSLIST and Facebook and send a gentle reminder a few weeks before
> the upcoming WOSONOS. The inviting hosts would then be posted on a flip
> chart at the WOSONOS and announced as a session when creating the bulletin
> board or at the evening news. As always there is the opportunity to add
> places, sessions and news announcements up until the closing circle, both
> on the spot and via other ways of communicating. This would make it easier
> for everyone to approach the hosts, express their delight or ask clarifying
> questions. It would also enable the hosts (or their representatives) to
> come together in a session and find out how they would like to do the
> invitations in the closing circle. Maybe some will wait until next year?
> Maybe multiple WOSONOSes in one year? Maybe in different continents at the
> same time? Maybe with different themes/urgent questions? Let?s embrace
> chaos and see what emerges! Or ?Whatever happens is the only thing that
> could have?.
> 
> Since the closing circle have a more definite dead line than ?When it is
> over it is over?, due to flights and other time restrictions, this
> prolonged invitation process will open up time for more dialogues and
> invitations.
> But then again, as said in the closing circle in Krak?w, there is nothing
> like a good mess in order to learn something new J
> 
> Maybe it has been tried before and in that case I?m interested to know
> how it worked or didn?t work.
> 
> Greetings from Sweden!
> Pernilla
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> Some thoughts ...
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> Pernilla in Sweden wrote 30 Sep 2015:
> 
> I am personally very uncomfortable to use the words ?voting? or to ?make a 
> collective decision? within an Open Space.
> 
> One of the beauties with Open Space is taking responsibility for your own 
> engagement. If we all share the same engagement we will walk in the same 
> direction, eventually. But sometimes it takes time for things to emerge.
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> 
> Here's Tom Atlee's beautiful story on How to make a Decision Without Making a 
> Decision
> 
> http://www.co-intelligence.org/I-decisionmakingwithout.html
> 
> Tom writes: As I stepped out into the flooded fields I suddenly realized that 
>              no decision had been made. No motion was made. No vote was 
> taken. 
>              No one checked for consensus. Nothing was announced or recorded. 
>              The group just "knew" how we were going to behave ...
> 
> Jan, also in Sweden
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> I experience this thread as a fascinating study in authority. I hope you 
> do, too.
> 
> On 10/2/15 8:55 AM, Jan H?glund via OSList wrote:
> Some thoughts ...
> 
> Pernilla in Sweden wrote 30 Sep 2015:
> 
> I am personally very uncomfortable to use the words ?voting? or to 
> ?make a collective decision? within an Open Space.
> 
> One of the beauties with Open Space is taking responsibility for 
> your own engagement. If we all share the same engagement we will walk 
> in the same direction, eventually. But sometimes it takes time for 
> things to emerge.
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> 
> Here's Tom Atlee's beautiful story on How to make a Decision Without 
> Making a Decision
> 
> http://www.co-intelligence.org/I-decisionmakingwithout.html
> 
> Tom writes: As I stepped out into the flooded fields I suddenly 
> realized that no decision had been made. No motion was made. No vote 
> was taken. No one checked for consensus. Nothing was announced or 
> recorded. The group just "knew" how we were going to behave ...
> 
> Jan, also in Sweden
> 
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> thanks for the clarification about how things happened this year, lisa.
> this morning i'm wondering if/how any expectation or assumption of voting
> might play into people's decision to offer an invitation or not.  more, i'm
> wondering why we ever started voting at all.  when several conveners offer
> similar topics when we're facilitating, we might suggest or they just
> naturally do go off and have a chat amongst themselves to decide when the
> session will happen and what it might be called.  often they just push the
> posted pages together and say "we're going to do these together," but then
> what happens in that corner of the room is some mixing of the various
> views.  it seems so natural in an OS event and yet it doesn't seem like
> we've done this with various would-be conveners of osonos gatherings.  have
> we just left it to those willing to take responsiblity for hosting to
> figure it out and tell us where the next gathering(s) will be offered?  i'm
> thinking this might move in the direction of jan's atlee story.  or maybe
> that's the "session" you've been convening year to year, in some way.  if
> so, have we had an underlying requirement or assumption that there always
> be just one physical location convening at any one time?  and is that still
> necessary?
> 
> and i completely agree with you, eleder, re: doing online wosonos.  there
> isn't any requirement at all to do any parallel convening.  there is some
> value and maybe also some responsibility in the way of telling the story,
> sharing what's happening.  usually this happens by ppts typing up notes.
> many times (vancouver, melbourne, swenmark and maybe others) we have been
> able to share the notes online at the same time as they are posted on the
> wall onsite.  always, new conversations have sprung up around those
> postings.  this acknowledges and feeds a larger practice circle than can
> gather in any one location and makes what happens in that location even
> more importance and value, i think.  the simplest way of sharing those
> notes would be posting to the oslist.  we've done it in other ways, in
> wikis and such.
> 
> this year we offered some options at qiqochat, as part of learning our way
> into that platform, as a community.  i think of this more like posting a
> project/topic at wosonos than being any central part of the hosting team or
> task.  i think there is something worth exploring, as a community, in this
> realm of distributed collaboration as more and more people in agile and
> other businesses are learning to work in this way.  again, this is learning
> is something i see can happen in the context of osonos events, for anyone
> who wants to join it (from anywhere), rather than a requirement in creating
> an osonos event.  osonos is about learning while doing, ya?
> 
> thanks, too, eleder, for reminding about basque country and berlin osonos
> events.  that must put us up toward 60 gatherings in 20+ years.
> 
> 
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> 
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I experience this thread as a fascinating study in authority. I hope you
> do, too.
> 
> On 10/2/15 8:55 AM, Jan H?glund via OSList wrote:
> 
> Some thoughts ...
> 
> Pernilla in Sweden wrote 30 Sep 2015:
> 
> I am personally very uncomfortable to use the words ?voting? or to ?make
> a collective decision? within an Open Space.
> 
> One of the beauties with Open Space is taking responsibility for your
> own engagement. If we all share the same engagement we will walk in the
> same direction, eventually. But sometimes it takes time for things to
> emerge.
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> 
> Here's Tom Atlee's beautiful story on How to make a Decision Without
> Making a Decision
> 
> http://www.co-intelligence.org/I-decisionmakingwithout.html
> 
> Tom writes: As I stepped out into the flooded fields I suddenly realized
> that no decision had been made. No motion was made. No vote was taken. No
> one checked for consensus. Nothing was announced or recorded. The group
> just "knew" how we were going to behave ...
> 
> Jan, also in Sweden
> 
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> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:41:53 -0500
> From: Michael Herman via OSList <[email protected]>
> To: OSLIST <[email protected]>
> Subject: [OSList] help w/ new global calendar for trainings, osonos
>       events and other learning gatherings?
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> hi all,
> 
> when i rebuilt openspaceworld.org earlier this year, i let go of the
> training calendar mechanism that wasn't really working.  mostly it was a
> little too much work to manage, for me and everyone else.  then some folks
> showed up and said, "hey, we still want/need something!" we talked about
> that group organizing a little calendar team and producing something that
> could be embedded in various websites.
> 
> in light of our osonos conversations, and also really liking what harold
> has posted at osi-us website about all the different places (not just
> "trainings") where OS practitioner learning takes place, i created a public
> google calendar for posting trainings, but also osonos events and
> stammisches(sp?) and any other sort of learning events you might want to
> share globally.
> 
> IF you'd know of such events and are willing to help populate this new
> calendar, please email me directly at [email protected].  i'll tell
> google that you're allowed to post and tell you how to do it.  you can post
> one or more events you know about.  when we get some stuff posted, we'll
> make the calendar public for reference, with open invitation to others to
> add next events.
> 
> many thanks!
> 
> michael
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Michael Herman
> Michael Herman Associates
> http://MichaelHerman.com
> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:16:43 -0400
> From: Daniel Mezick via OSList <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OSList] help w/ new global calendar for trainings,
>       osonos events and other learning gatherings?
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> Hi Michael,
> 
> 
> I like the idea of an Open Space calendar. Good idea!
> 
> I wonder if the Open Space Institute USA web site (http://www.osius.org) 
> is the most appropriate and perhaps the best place for this kind of thing.
> 
> As you point out, Harold Shinsato continues to work very, very hard on 
> the overall OSI-US site, all in service to the Open Space community.
> 
> Here we can see how his hard work helps OSI-US publicize Open Space 
> training, not just in the USA but around the world, via the OSI-US web 
> site, for anyone seeking OST training worldwide:
> 
> http://www.osius.org/trainings
> 
> I wonder if you might be willing to contact Harold, discuss how you 
> might be able to help him and others to compile the list, add your 
> excellent calendar-idea into the existing OSI-US training-page, etc.
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel
> www.OpenSpaceAgility.com/About
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/2/15 10:41 AM, Michael Herman via OSList wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> when i rebuilt openspaceworld.org <http://openspaceworld.org> earlier 
> this year, i let go of the training calendar mechanism that wasn't 
> really working.  mostly it was a little too much work to manage, for 
> me and everyone else.  then some folks showed up and said, "hey, we 
> still want/need something!" we talked about that group organizing a 
> little calendar team and producing something that could be embedded in 
> various websites.
> 
> in light of our osonos conversations, and also really liking what 
> harold has posted at osi-us website about all the different places 
> (not just "trainings") where OS practitioner learning takes place, i 
> created a public google calendar for posting trainings, but also 
> osonos events and stammisches(sp?) and any other sort of learning 
> events you might want to share globally.
> 
> IF you'd know of such events and are willing to help populate this new 
> calendar, please email me directly at [email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>.  i'll tell google that you're 
> allowed to post and tell you how to do it.  you can post one or more 
> events you know about.  when we get some stuff posted, we'll make the 
> calendar public for reference, with open invitation to others to add 
> next events.
> 
> many thanks!
> 
> michael
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Michael Herman
> Michael Herman Associates
> http://MichaelHerman.com
> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
> 
> 
> 
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> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:40:13 -0500
> From: Michael Herman via OSList <[email protected]>
> To: Daniel Mezick <[email protected]>,      World wide Open Space
>       Technology email list   <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OSList] help w/ new global calendar for trainings,
>       osonos events and other learning gatherings?
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> Harold is already part of the conversation, Daniel. And the whole point of
> this particular calendar is that many people can add to it AND it can be
> embedded in any website, osius, osw, and any others and look exactly the
> same everywhere.
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, October 2, 2015, Daniel Mezick via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> 
> I like the idea of an Open Space calendar. Good idea!
> 
> I wonder if the Open Space Institute USA web site (http://www.osius.org)
> is the most appropriate and perhaps the best place for this kind of thing.
> 
> As you point out, Harold Shinsato continues to work very, very hard on the
> overall OSI-US site, all in service to the Open Space community.
> 
> Here we can see how his hard work helps OSI-US publicize Open Space
> training, not just in the USA but around the world, via the OSI-US web
> site, for anyone seeking OST training worldwide:
> 
> http://www.osius.org/trainings
> 
> I wonder if you might be willing to contact Harold, discuss how you might
> be able to help him and others to compile the list, add your excellent
> calendar-idea into the existing OSI-US training-page, etc.
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel
> www.OpenSpaceAgility.com/About
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/2/15 10:41 AM, Michael Herman via OSList wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> when i rebuilt openspaceworld.org earlier this year, i let go of the
> training calendar mechanism that wasn't really working.  mostly it was a
> little too much work to manage, for me and everyone else.  then some folks
> showed up and said, "hey, we still want/need something!" we talked about
> that group organizing a little calendar team and producing something that
> could be embedded in various websites.
> 
> in light of our osonos conversations, and also really liking what harold
> has posted at osi-us website about all the different places (not just
> "trainings") where OS practitioner learning takes place, i created a public
> google calendar for posting trainings, but also osonos events and
> stammisches(sp?) and any other sort of learning events you might want to
> share globally.
> 
> IF you'd know of such events and are willing to help populate this new
> calendar, please email me directly at [email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>.  i'll tell
> google that you're allowed to post and tell you how to do it.  you can post
> one or more events you know about.  when we get some stuff posted, we'll
> make the calendar public for reference, with open invitation to others to
> add next events.
> 
> many thanks!
> 
> michael
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Michael Herman
> Michael Herman Associates
> http://MichaelHerman.com
> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
> 
> 
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> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:16:10 -0400
> From: Suzanne Daigle via OSList <[email protected]>
> To: Eleder_BuM <[email protected]>,         World wide Open Space
>       Technology email list   <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OSList] An invitation for future invitations to WOSONOS
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> Dearest Eleder,
> 
> How I love all that you've captured in your note most especially the spirit
> of invitation and the joy of attending. The fact that there are more and
> more international gatherings, big and small, training and reunions, is so
> wonderful.
> 
> Having co-hosted a WOSonOS in Florida with a wonderful gang of University
> of South Florida students and others, I know the love that went into the
> welcome and the planning. I felt the same from other host countries where I
> attended getting a chance to experience their culture through their
> preparation, feeling the anticipatory joy they had in receiving us.  It was
> in those little touches that I felt it most, local foods, the Open Space
> posters in their language, their help as to where to stay (so appreciated
> when I was going to a foreign country) and their recommendations on
> restaurants or perhaps a few places to visit.  No one could argue that some
> of these things have nothing to do with Open Space, nor are they required
> but I would never want to deprive the hosts of making us feel special and
> welcome through those littles touches. At the same time, it can be just as
> simple as the way Harrison describes it. I totally love those too.
> 
> In our case, the preparations included a few training events and a
> community Open Space a few months before WOSonOS. All of this seeded an
> open space way of doing and being that continues to sprout in so many
> surprising ways years later in the Tampa Bay region and beyond. Most
> important of all are the spaces that were opened inside each of us.
> 
> That said, I have always felt that those preparations should never distract
> or predetermine what happens in Open Space nor should they be a burden or
> put pressure on people to do the same.
> 
> Life is a mix and in the spirit of self-organizing, I think there's room
> for less is more and sometimes a bit more than less. Up to the hosts to
> decide, there is no right or wrong, better or less.  Reminds me of the Law
> of 2 Feet.
> 
> I sure hope my two feet take me to Manilla cause I want to walk those
> hundred miles so that we can "hold the whole wide world in our hands",
> "whistling all the while". In case you missed it, I fell in love with this
> video by Sharon Joy Chao. Keep humming it all the time. Whether there in
> spirit or in person, we feel your welcome and spirit of invitation!
> 
> https://animoto.com/play/XvXVDcOKXjGo0jb1SkwqGQ
> 
> Suzanne
> 
> Suzanne Daigle
> Open Space Facilitator
> NuFocus Strategic Group
> 
> FL 941-359-8877
> Cell: 203-722-2009
> www.nufocusgroup.com
> [email protected]
> Twitter @Daiglesuz
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Eleder_BuM via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello family!
> 
> I find having a local  (yearly or every 2 years) osonos very stimulating.
> In the Basque Country we started in 2013 (bOSonOS; I knew in Krakow, that
> Berliners had done quite many bOSonOS, too) and we are having quite much
> fun. The invitation is always open to everyone. Probably we?ll  keep doing
> bOSONOS for some years, the local community will grow and, little by little
> people from far away will like coming.
> 
> Maybe one day we?ll invite for wosonos. If a good bunch of fellows are
> eager to share the task so as everyone can enjoy it. If we one day decide
> to invite, I suppose it will be quite simple. Then, if people decide to
> come *wosonosing*, great. If not, very fine too (one less thing to take
> care of :).
> 
> I love attending the international ones from time to time. Enriching, as
> it makes possible meeting many new practitioners, and OS is people, as life
> is, too, people -for me, mainly
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ1J9d27aA0>-. Krakow was fantastic, as
> ever.
> 
> I find myself very comfortable when attending an osonos where 30-70 people
> attend. Enough variety and not too overwhelming. More manageable.
> 
> I love knowing that the OS community grows on and on, and we are getting
> to have several osonos yearly around the world. This way, when one is
> really eager to attend one, the "difficulty" would be on oneself, deciding
> "which great party will I attend now"? It seems that something like this is
> already happening, great!
> 
> I suppose we take on too much responsibility and work because we assume
> that the more people come, the better (And, what about "Whoever comes...?").
> 
> I find, too, that, specially when international, we tend to take on too
> much burden as invitors. For example,...
> 
> 
>   - Does the fact that many people will be coming by plane make it more
>   difficult for the invitors to manage it? Why?
>   - The payment issue, ... does it involve too much work? What would be
>   the cons of just allowing paying cash on the site?
>   - Is a fancy website really required? Or could we even registrate with
>   an email an d having attendees fill in a 3 minutes form?
>   - Does the food standard of the meeting tend to be too "smart", "high
>   quality",... making it more difficult for the sponsors to hold? Why?
>   - Is organizing a parallel online wosonos really required? Knowing
>   that the permanent Wosonos is happening all the time on the OSLIST and
>   other places online?
>   - Maybe some of us feel the burden of showing the world "what our
>   nation is like?..."
> 
> 
>   - *Which other details are the ones that make it specially hard
>   convening wosonos,* (apart from taking or assuming the decisions on
>   how to manage language diversity)*?*
> 
> Having had so many wars all around the world for centuries,...Maybe it
> puts an extra psychological burden on the invitors, wherever they live?
> Maybe we tend to make a special effort to make it clear all over the world
> that "we are lovely people":)?
> 
> 
> Regarding the decision on how to decide "where next wosonos"? What
> are the special features of wosonos? Maybe that you?ll usually meet there
> more os-nicks than in a regular osonos (= that it?s bigger)? maybe that
> you?ll meet with people of a wider part of the planet (= that it feels more
> diverse)? Perhaps knowing that there are many people that repeat the
> experience during years and special bonds appear, and you can get to
> know/become more part of this big family?
> 
> I like the original spirit and I find that we could make it that simple
> now too,...
> 
> *"Some nice soul just said, ?Come See us.? If two people had similar
> inclinations, but different places in mind, who ever spoke second covered
> the following year. No fuss, no bother and in 10 minutes time the essential
> arrangements were made."*
> 
> 
> I assume that whoever invites is full of passion and able to host us in
> OS. And that OS, it?ll always be the same and it?ll be also very different
> each time.
> 
> In fact it?s the people coming, the participants, who make the OS
> experience.
> 
> In an osonos, a specially high percentage of participants know it, we are
> the ones that know it best :)! So why do we care so much (I feel) about who
> the invitors+facilitators are and sometimes seem to evaluate if they are
> really prepared to hold the event?
> 
> I hope this chaotic and disperse ideas add something to the conversation.
> 
> Enjoy life!
> 
> Eleder
> 
> 
> 2015-09-30 22:42 GMT+02:00 Michael Herman via OSList <
> [email protected]>:
> 
> thanks for raising these questions, pernilla.  what you're proposing in
> terms of people (rather than countries!) coming forward at the beginning of
> the gathering makes great sense to me.  these invitations can be offered at
> any time, of course, including a week or a month before the wosonos
> gathering time.  if our tradition were to evolve in that direction, there
> could be some commenting on that in advance of the gathering.
> 
> at the same time, the thing that makes for the pressure and scarcity and
> overall un-OS feeling of this situation isn't really a question of when the
> invites are offered, but that we have developed this habit of having only
> one of these gatherings at once, or one per year, or more specifically that
> we designate just one as *the* world osonos, even though nordic and haitian
> and camden and oz folks and some other have had significant series of
> osonos gatherings.
> 
> i really like the idea that these things could happen on several
> continents at once, so the wosonos had multiple sites.  progress of tools
> like qiqochat offer interesting possibilities of being able to easily
> bumblebee across oceans.  we've also been growing a tradition of spinning
> these things up into major productions, perhaps drifting some from the
> simple power of our core practice.  if we met in more places at once and
> traveled shorter distances, maybe the hosts would feel less pressure to
> "work too hard" an planning and organizing these things?
> 
> what if the wosonos could evolve in the direction of a kind of
> world-around OS carnival/retreat/learning exchange week?  many invites,
> many parties, i mean working sessions?
> 
> michael
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Michael Herman
> Michael Herman Associates
> http://MichaelHerman.com
> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
> 
> Pernilla ? It always amazes me how simple things complexify and
> happenstantial acts suddenly become ?intricate tradition.?
> 
> 
> 
> Back in the day, long ages ago, having an Open Space on Open Space
> (OSONOS) seemed like a  fun thing to do. I think it took me all of 4-5
> hours (total) to organize it, and the ?fee? for attendance was $25.
> Actually, truth to tell, I did charge something like $200 for the first one
> on the grounds that there was some value added on my part. But after  the
> first one, when it became quite clear that I really didn?t do a thing... we
> got back to something reasonable. That was $25 to cover Post-its, magic
> markers, News Print, etc.  And when it came to figuring out where it was
> going to ?happen? next ? the process was indeed elaborate. Some nice soul
> just said, ?Come See us.? If two people had similar inclinations, but
> different places in mind, who ever spoke second covered the following year.
> No fuss, no bother and in 10 minutes time the essential arrangements were
> made.
> 
> 
> 
> I don?t know when or how,  but things started to drag on. I am sure a lot
> of folks didn?t see it the same way I did, but I have to confess that I
> found my two feet working if the discussion of ?next place? lasted more
> than about 10 minutes... being a person of very short attention span. I
> have been to most OSONOS?s and loved every one. But a few years ago it did
> seem to me that we were working much too hard. It also seemed that having
> *THE* (W)OSONOS was somehow a strangely competitive situation. Definitely
> working too hard!
> 
> 
> 
> As far as I was concerned anyone, anywhere should invite whomsoever to
> wherever. OSONOS all over! And just to make the point I tried two such
> things in Camden Maine. OSONOS-by-the-Sea, I called it. I think I broke my
> record when it came to organizing time. If I said 3 hours, that would be
> stretching it. We were filled out in about 48 hours and the fee was $25,
> most of which I gave to Lisa for her good work. When it came to
> accommodations, I just provided the website of the Chamber of Commerce, and
> suggested that anybody who was coming might check it out and find a nice
> bed/meal/front porch. A local parish let us have the use of their Hall (for
> a small fee) ? and we were in business. Actually the fee that they proposed
> was so ridiculously low that I doubled it ? and we still gave most of the
> money to Lisa! Go figure.
> 
> 
> 
> Maybe it is catching? I notice that Andrew Rixon is welcoming folks to
> Melbourne and I am looking forward to joining Mrs. Song and friends in
> Beijing shortly. And then of course Manila is upcoming. And what?s
> happening in Sweden?
> 
> 
> 
> This seems to have gone on for a bit. And I do have a bottom line: If it
> ain?t fun, don?t do it. And if you are working too hard, that definitely
> begins to cut into the fun. So Pernilla, in an odd sort of way, I just want
> to get back to basics ? Would that be tradition? Make it fun. Make it
> simple. Open Space wherever you can, and amazing things always happen. The
> more the merrier!!!!
> 
> 
> 
> Harrison
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Lisa Heft - via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> How wonderful, your invitation, in all its richness, Pernilla.
> 
> Another two things I would like to add:
> 
> 1) As always, for any team interested in hosting a WOSonOS for a future
> year, I have a growing living letter of lessons-learned - gathered wisdom
> from past host teams, that has been growing since 2001 and that I happily
> offer to whoever wishes to contact me. My request is that if you, dear
> reader, are thinking ?oh that is something I / we will ask Lisa for? then
> please wait until a few weeks from now, as I will in a few weeks update it
> with the latest Host Team?s lessons-learned.
> 
> And 2) As has happened at several years in the past, including at our
> recent WOSonOS  - you as a Host Team / Host Team representative do not have
> to be physically present at a WOSonOS in order to invite. Several of us
> have over the years acted as representatives for teams wishing to invite
> who were not able to physically make it. And you can make us do whatever
> you like, to represent you !
> 
> Looking forward to the conversation,
> Lisa
> 
> 
> On Sep 30, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Pernilla Luttropp via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> At the inspiring WOSONOS in Krak?w there were some learning
> conversations on how this community  goes about when expressing and
> accepting invitations from countries/places to host the upcoming WOSONOSes.
> 
> In the big circle there were voices that expressed some confusion and
> discomfort with the process. Others said that whatever happened, they would
> trust the process. There was also the mentioning of ?traditions? and the
> ways things are usually done at a WOSONOS. And the reminder that traditions
> are made in every single now and ?Whatever happens is the only thing that
> could have?.
> 
> 
> *If you are new to WOSONOS *This is how it?s usually done (I think):
> the countries that wish to host the next WOSONOS makes an invitation at the
> closing circle of the WOSONOS and the participants are free to accept any
> of the invitations. The process of accepting the invitation is sometimes
> done by some kind of ?voting? procedure in order to agree on one place.
> There is often someone who reminds everybody that the only way to ?vote? in
> Open Space is by applying ?The law of mobility?. There is no need to only
> have one WOSONOS, there could be multiple since ?Wherever it happens is the
> right place?.
> 
> 
> *My view *I am personally very uncomfortable to use the words ?voting?
> or to ?make a collective decision? within an Open Space. One of the
> beauties with Open Space is taking responsibility for your own engagement.
> If we all share the same engagement we will walk in the same direction,
> eventually. But sometimes it takes time for things to emerge.
> If a group decides on voting there are many good methods and it?s of
> outmost importance for those present to understand what they are about to
> do, in order to make an informed decision. Is it a majority decision? How
> many is the majority? What happens if some vote no? Is it possible to have
> a ballot vote? Is it the role of the facilitator to sum it up and make the
> final decision? In my view, we can only express our appreciation for the
> invitation at the Open Space, offer help if needed and make use of the law
> of mobility.
> 
> 
> *An invitation *This is an invitation to try something else and maybe
> to let go of a ?tradition?. What if we opened up at the beginning of the
> process in order to see how it self organizes at the end?
> There seems to be something unclear about the ?tradition? on how to get
> information about who is inviting and why. If that information were
> transparent from the very start of the WOSONOS, it might enable more
> dialogue with the inviting hosts and between the hosts.
> 
> The countries/places that wish to host a future WOSONOS could post this
> on the OSLIST and Facebook and send a gentle reminder a few weeks before
> the upcoming WOSONOS. The inviting hosts would then be posted on a flip
> chart at the WOSONOS and announced as a session when creating the bulletin
> board or at the evening news. As always there is the opportunity to add
> places, sessions and news announcements up until the closing circle, both
> on the spot and via other ways of communicating. This would make it easier
> for everyone to approach the hosts, express their delight or ask clarifying
> questions. It would also enable the hosts (or their representatives) to
> come together in a session and find out how they would like to do the
> invitations in the closing circle. Maybe some will wait until next year?
> Maybe multiple WOSONOSes in one year? Maybe in different continents at the
> same time? Maybe with different themes/urgent questions? Let?s embrace
> chaos and see what emerges! Or ?Whatever happens is the only thing that
> could have?.
> 
> Since the closing circle have a more definite dead line than ?When it is
> over it is over?, due to flights and other time restrictions, this
> prolonged invitation process will open up time for more dialogues and
> invitations.
> But then again, as said in the closing circle in Krak?w, there is
> nothing like a good mess in order to learn something new J
> 
> Maybe it has been tried before and in that case I?m interested to know
> how it worked or didn?t work.
> 
> Greetings from Sweden!
> Pernilla
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