Invitation to OSR graduates: Serve on the Alumni Board

OSR graduates, you are invited to consider serving as Alumni Association Board members for a three-year term beginning September 2009. The OSR Alumni Association is expanding the current board and replacing retiring board members by filling eight new Board vacancies.

Five years since it's founding, the OSR Alumni Assocation offers graduates a variety of opportunities to serve the OSR community-at-large and practice OSR principles. Service on the board helps you connect and build new relationships while serving the mission of the association.

For additional information, please contact any current board member and visit the Alumni Association online.

Download application for 2009 Alumni Board opportunities.

OSR alumn helps create open space in cyber space

Lucy Garrick, (OSR 12) and Alumni board co-chair recently helped to create the first (as far as we know) Real-Time Virtual Global Open Space (RTVC).  

The conference theme was: What tools and principles do we need to help change to unfold? Social and technological development is a means for better organizations, and a better world.

Together, new found friends and colleagues from Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Brazil, United States, and South Africa, designed and convened the 4-hour conference using Open Space principles and social media.

One word reactions from participants and convenors:
thrilling 
excitement 
multilevel 
smooth 
encouraging 
engaging 
conversations 
learning 
Like riding a roller coaster. 
technically challenging 
possibility 
engaging 
falling off the cliff 
bacterial 
crossing boundaries 
engaging 
exhilarating 
surfing 
disruptive 
just starting 
difficult connections 
interesting 
complex 
What's next? 
calls for more 
germinal

Over 50 participants signed on to the main sessions. Click on the RTVC MindMap. and see facts, key learnings, session topics and more. Note instructions on how to navigate the mindmap in the lower right corner of the page.