Dear participants in the “wsf2012supportgroup”

http://openfsm.net/projects/wsf2012-support/lists/wsf2012-support-team/membership

This group has been started in Dhaka IC November 2011. It was proposed and agreed at the very end of this unduly poorly attended IC, and was a contributive output from this dim meeting

In Tunis IC, there was a proposal to continue this “calendar and OE group” (see intervention 152 at the very end http://openfsm.net/projects/ic-extended/icextended-tunis-2013)

Ole from Norway has joined the working team in Tunisand Laura who is member as secretariat staff are welcome!

The purpose of this message is to give the group an update info, and an opportunity for each of us to stay in the working team or opt out of the group or porpose other people to join

What was done in 2012 in this group

1- several versions of the 2012 WSF calendar were edited( see the various versions in the “history button of the page, or in the successive attached documents http://openfsm.net/projects/wsf2012-support/wsf2012-calendar. These versions were circulated on the OE list and beyondhttp://openfsm.net/projects/espacios-oeMessages are visible in the the OE mailing lists( list of organizers of events):http://openfsm.net/projects/espacios-oe/lists/espaciosoe-tema1

2-this tema1 list, which is the Agora list , has been used mainly to spread the calendar- so far no significant exchange have taken place between organizers on various themes about event organizing - Check the various themes suggested here: http://openfsm.net/projects/espacios-oe/Link: /projects/espacios-oe/ or here http://openfsm.net/projects/espacios-oe/espaciosoe-tema1-temasLink: /projects/espacios-oe/espaciosoe-tema1-temas

Current 2013 updates about this group

1/ the name of the space has been changed to “2013:14IC calendar and OE group” – meaning this is a working group facilitated by IC participants and inclusive to other people and focused on maintaining a calendar and fostering exchange of experience among organizers of events throughout 2013-2014, up to next WSF

2/ a new page has been created to host the 2013 -14 calendar editions–

http://openfsm.net/projects/wsf2012-support/wsf2013-calendarleaving the 2012 calendar page for archive

3/ a start draft version of the 2013-14 calendar is published and needs updates from anyone knowledgeable about upcoming events in 2013 2014

4/ OE Agora list is being enlarged with names of convergence assembly contacts, i-e persons who, through their involvement in a thematic aspect of wsf process are liable to be interested in news about upcoming events linked to WSF process

5/ Laura has been included for the WSF secretariat in replacement of Helio

Post wsf Tunis context

A series of three working groups have been launched in Tunis http://openfsm.net/projects/cifutur

Group G2 is focused on ic future and intends to circulate consultationsto IC members and to convergence assembly organizers, and to event organizers ( which level of social forum events is considered? ( seeIC transcript with intervention 129 & 132 )-

So the OE Agora list presented in point 1 above can be a place where to make some “consultation” for G2 tasks

Group G3 is focused on wsf contextand maybe also the calendar will be of relevance

Tentative list of Upcoming tasks in the group

1/See who is staying in the group

2/Collect emails linked to upcoming event organizers and collect email of convergence assemblies organizers http://openfsm.net/projects/memotunex/memotunex-assemb-and include those emails in the OE list

3/Send a message to the OE Agora listwith the first draft of 2013-14 calendar and ask for corrections and complements

4/Inform Groups G1 G2 G3 about existence of this group “wsf2013 14 calendar and OE”, and propose inside G2 group to a/ use OE list asa vehicle for consultation and exchange with event Organizers, and b/propose G2 participants to come in OE Agora list-

5/Update the calendar 2013 with corrections received in3 – and ask organizers about complements

6/Send an invitation on IC list to participate in the group or send info to fsmwsf.calendar email

7/Inform the OE Agora list about the CI future context and perspectives with G2 work, depending of G2 answer

8/Suggest some themes for discussion in the OE list and start the corresponding mail listeg extension – memory ( which is in line with task of group G1) see a proposed list herehttp://openfsm.net/projects/espacios-oe/espaciosoe-tema1-temas

9/and more tasks stemming from those above