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[I don't think Fano's attempt of mailing this worked, so I'll try
from my account. -Max]<br>
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Dear balers, <br>
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I wish everybody, that your dreams become true in the year
of 2011. Even the wildest ones, you wish...so be careful
with what you wish for...</p>
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We entered 2011, which means the impatient of us are already
counting down to the European Straw Bale Gathering in Bouzov
Podoli, Czech Republic.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">So I would like to share some
information and issues with you:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">1/ We are sorry, but it seems to us,
that we did not expressed clearly enough that the issue about
only 5 participants per country is simply our<i> suggestion</i> and
we would very much like to hear YOUR view. I think those of
you who refrained from filling <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlWcVNOQ0hWS29nejV0dGxfdGV5NWc6MQ"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">the
questionaire</a> as you didn't believe you would be able to
come, are in effect doing yourself a misfortune.</p>
<div class="im">
<p style="margin: 0px;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlWcVNOQ0hWS29nejV0dGxfdGV5NWc6MQ"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">The current
survey</a> result about this issue is:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">13 answers 42% We simply do a
'first come, first serve' base, as all other ESBG's. When
it's sold out, it's sold out.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">10 answers 32% Participants apply
centrally to us, we sort them according to nations and
amount of tickets and ask national participants to sort it
out between themselves?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">9 answers 29% The National
Networker/organisation gets to choose.</p>
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8 answers 26% Other.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">6 answers 19% An international
committee gets formed and chose the participants? </p>
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We'll close <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlWcVNOQ0hWS29nejV0dGxfdGV5NWc6MQ"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">the survey</a> on
January 20th, as we have a team meeting on the 22nd. We would
very much appreciate your views, so please <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlWcVNOQ0hWS29nejV0dGxfdGV5NWc6MQ"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">fill it in</a>.
And we like to make you aware that upon registration we will
ask you to fill out another quick survey, so we're getting
even closer to customizing ESBG 2011 to your needs. It is
definitely worth the 5 minutes of your lives.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">+Remember the bonus of filling out the
survey: You will get a good insight in the current lay-out
of the program </p>
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2/ If I understood well the Survey results, so far we have
workshops with facilitators for subject of lime plastering,
wood construction details, SB building approaches, outside
gypsum plaster, clay plastering, load-bearing construction,
handling and resizing the straw bales.</p>
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I hereby loudly call for skillful facilitators for any
interesting workshops of different available subjects. Our
arms are open for you, please send the ideas and offers.
Maybe someone for: exterior SB insulation of an old
building, passive house SB detailing, fine plasters, colours
and reliefs..... etc.</p>
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3/ Also we would welcome some offers of conference
presenters of more different topics.</p>
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Maybe someone of you is interested in presenting the Leonardo
SB education project?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Maybe someone knows about some other
significant research or topic???</p>
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4/ Transportation issue:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Currently we have people interested in
arranging busses going from South (Slovenia), West (France),
and from North (so far only from Poland; which is too close
to fill a bus); </p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Anyone from further North, South and
East???</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">5/ Partners in fund raising:</p>
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Good news; 7 people is interested in being partners in a
'Youth in Action' program for a 2 day seminar which we could
arrange within the ESBG, and this way help secure some
funding, to make the ESBG cheaper for all, and in particular
to give some scholarships.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Not so good news: Before it's worth
doing, we would need more people who at times work in the
field of 'Youth Educator' to sign up as a partner for such an
application; so we need about 25 more. All it takes is a one
page partnership form to be posted to us before January 24 th.
Contact us on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:esbgteam@gmail...">esbgteam@gmail...</a> for more information.</p>
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So much so far,</p>
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please let me know if you have something to share with us. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Yours,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Fano</p>
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