Re: [ox-en] 4th Oekonux Conference: Mission completed :-)
Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:22:37 +0700
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[Converted from multipart/alternative] [1 text/plain] Stefan, you, and the people who helped you, especially the local ones, did a stellar job, thank you so much for that!! it would help if you have a paypal account, it's the only place where I have some money to spare, Michel On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Stefan Merten <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just coming back from the 4th Oekounx conference. Well, I must say > it was really, really a great conference. We had lots and lots of > very, very interesting talks with lots of new food for thought and > many interesting insights. And this is not only my impression but is > shared by the people who have been to the final plenary session :-) . > > Though this is certainly a sign of quality what was really important > for me was to bring together all these people from very different > fields so they listen and talk to each other. And this worked so well > :-) ! I love to remember the dinner yesterday evening where 35 of the > most interesting persons during the whole evening constantly talked to > each other about the most interesting topics! In fact there is > probably no other place on this planet where engineers and political > people, thinkers and practitioners, scientists and activists come > together in such an open and constructive atmosphere. That was really, > really great and worth each hour I put into the preparation of this > conference. > > At this point I'd also would like to thank the local helpers namely > Yuwei with who I worked for over a year to make this conference > happen. Without her and the other local helpers the conference would > not have been possible. > > I also want to thank all the speakers and all visitors for their > interesting input and the open-mindedness necessary for real listening > to and learning from each other. All the effort which had been put in > organizing the conference would not have make sense without you. > > Well, I hate to say this but unfortunately we still need some money to > pay all the costs. Please let me note that 90% of the costs come from > inviting speakers and the rest is paying infrastructure. I don't have > all the exact numbers yet but the numbers I have say that we still > need ~750EUR to pay everything. So if you can spend for instance > 50+EUR just contact me (off-list) and I'll tell you how you can do > this. I would really appreciate it. > > > Grüße > > Stefan > _________________________________ > Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ > Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ > Contact: [email protected] > -- Working at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University - http://www.dpu.ac.th/dpuic/info/Research.html - http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI Volunteering at the P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net - http://p2pfoundation.ning.com Monitor updates at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens The work of the P2P Foundation is supported by SHIFTN, http://www.shiftn.com/ [2 text/html] _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: [email protected]