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Working Organization Invitation Draft

Your work indicates that, like me, you believe strongly that sustainable solutions should be shared whenever possible. We are gathering together a large community of like-minded groups and people, called the Open Sustainability Network (OSN), to work on overcoming barriers to openness and collaboration. Our first conference will be at San Francisco State University on October, 18th-19th and admission is free. Your support for OSN can range from simply joining and offering valuable passive support (granting permission to use your name and logo in our list of supporting members) to very active support (OSNCamp attendance and promotion of OSN via blogs and newsletters). To promote OSNCamp attendance, we will enable virtual attendance for those who can't be physically present.

We would love to have at least one delegate from your organization attend OSNCamp 2008 in person or virtually via live video feed. Join us as we work together to increase openness and collaboration to accelerate our respective missions!

For more information: http://opensustainabilitynetwork.org

To register for OSNCamp 2008 see: http://osncon.eventbrite.com

To see the OSN member pledge: http://www.appropedia.org/OSN_member_pledge

To see the current member list: http://www.appropedia.org/OSN_members

Note: you can pledge without attending, or attend without pledging.

Please contact me with any questions. Thank you for doing the kind of work you do!

Working Organization Staff Invitation Draft

Dear ___________ staff,

Your work at ____________ indicates that you believe in sustainable solutions and maybe are concerned about how these solutions can be best shared and built upon. We are gathering together a large community, the Open Sustainability Network (OSN), to work on overcoming barriers to openness and collaboration. The first OSN conference will be at San Francisco State University on October 18th-19th, 2008 and admission is free (or $20, your choice).

You are invited.

Join us for the first Open Sustainability Network unconference as we explore free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.

More information: http://opensustainabilitynetwork.org/

Registration: http://osncon.eventbrite.com/

Please contact me with any questions.

Thank you,

Lonny

Somewhat More Personal Invitation Draft

Dear _____,

Your work with _____ and in life highlights your believe in sharing and building upon sustainable solutions. We are gathering together a large community, the Open Sustainability Network (OSN), to work on overcoming barriers to openness and collaboration. The first OSN conference will be at San Francisco State University on October 18th-19th, 2008 and admission is free (or $20, your choice).

You are invited.

Join us for the first Open Sustainability Network unconference as we explore free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty.

More information: http://opensustainabilitynetwork.org/

Registration: http://osncon.eventbrite.com/

Please contact me with any questions.

Thank you,

Lonny

To Invite

After you have contacted the following - please tag it with a signature.

We want representatives from many groups that are inspiring or who might get inspired about open sustainability. It's particularly important to get word out to folks overseas for whom travel is big factor. Some ideas include:

Appropedia Facebook group --Lonny 00:55, 3 September 2008 (PDT)
AIDG Facebook group
Amy Smith --Lonny 17:14, 8 September 2008 (PDT)
Open design people (See Open Design Collaboration)
- Fab Labs (CurtB chatted with Smari. Need to send firmed up MOU text.)
- D-Labs/MIT?
- OAN (Architecture for Humanity, CurtB has contacted Kate at AFH and Ben will likely attend. Need to formalize with MOU.)
p2pfoundation.net
Wikia
Room to Read
Kiva
Appropedia contributors (of course!)
Greenlivingpedia.org
Village Earth
Full Belly Project --Lonny 02:54, 10 September 2008 (PDT)
EWB, ESW, esp USA & Canada
WiserEarth
Rocky Mountain Institute
"Majority world" orgs and people - very important to have

representation from such places.

- Latin American orgs and people - is there a possibility of

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 ==Working Organization Invitation Draft==
-Your work indicates that, like me, you believe strongly that sustainable solutions should be shared whenever possible.  We are gathering together a large community of like-minded groups and people, called the Open Sustainability Network (OSN), to work on overcoming barriers to openness and collaboration.  Our first conference will be at San Francisco State University on October, 18th-19th and admission is free.   Your support for OSN can range from simply joining and offering valuable passive support (granting permission to use your name and logo in our list of supporting members) to very active support (attendance at the conference and promotion of OSN via blogs and newsletters).  Participation in the conference is important, and we will enable virtual attendance for those who cannot attend physically.
+Your work indicates that, like me, you believe strongly that sustainable solutions should be shared whenever possible.  We are gathering together a large community of like-minded groups and people, called the Open Sustainability Network (OSN), to work on overcoming barriers to openness and collaboration.  Our first conference will be at San Francisco State University on October, 18th-19th and admission is free.   Your support for OSN can range from simply joining and offering valuable passive support (granting permission to use your name and logo in our list of supporting members) to very active support (OSNCamp attendance and promotion of OSN via blogs and newsletters).  To promote OSNCamp attendance, we will enable virtual attendance for those who can't be physically present.
 We would love to have at least one delegate from your organization attend OSNCamp 2008 in person or virtually via live video feed.  Join us as we work together to increase openness and collaboration to accelerate our respective missions!
 :For more information: http://opensustainabilitynetwork.org
-:To register see: http://osncon.eventbrite.com
+:To register for OSNCamp 2008 see: http://osncon.eventbrite.com
 :To see the OSN member pledge: http://www.appropedia.org/OSN_member_pledge
 :To see the current member list: http://www.appropedia.org/OSN_members
+Note: you can pledge without attending, or attend without pledging.
 Please contact me with any questions.  Thank you for doing the kind of work you do!