Re: [ox-en] 4th Oekonux Conference: Mission completed :-)

Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:22:37 +0700
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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
> _________________________________
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> Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/
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>



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