Dear all, Last Friday we had a review meeting in the East of Svenmark, with facilities well organised by Cia. Here are some conclusions - that may open discussions again ?
Web Solution We feel the wiki solution that Michael Herrmann helped us set up really was abig step forward compared to other possibilities weíve used. We really felt connected with collegues around the world who were not there, and it was great to directly put things on the internet - and sometimes getting comments even while doing so ! - The wiki worked well. With some instructions most participants managed to write their report without any problems. We did have som problems due to that our internetprovider chose to make som mainanance work during OSonOS. Especially the first day we were disconnected for some time. One report had to be re-written, probably because it wasn´t saved, due to this. It was an interesting experience to have co-facilitators on the wiki. It was a good feeling of having support from "off-siters". A surprise was when during the conference, all of a sudden the site had been somewhat reorganized. I guess that is what can happen in a wike, and it was OK. A comment was made that for most on-site participants, the event and the discussions there are so rich they take up all oneís time and attention, and itís hard to at the same time be aware whatís coming in - let alone react on it. We agree with that. The question is how to make messages from off-site participants visible, so there is at least an opportunity. An idea which we had was to make input from off-site participants visible by projecting it on a screen. We feel that while this created an awareness that there was a connection to the ìrest of the wroldî, it was not very effective. And as comments typically came in at the bottom of reports or the OSonOS Cafe, as an onsite participant you really had to make an effort to find them. So an idea for an improvement we have, is to print incoming messages out as they come, maybe enlarge them on A3 format and put them on a section of the News Board, so one does not have to go and find them How does that sound ? Greetings from Svenmark, Gerard Muller Thomas Herrmann OSI Denmark OSI Sweden * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
