Hi Christine, thank you for sharing!
As the time is short, I will simply launch some ideas over to you and trust that you will use or discard them if they match or don't match your situation: christine koehler via OSList wrote: >(...) now he want a few discourses speeches from > a variety of actors before opening the space so that everyone knows > about all this and that… I see two options here: 1) Go with his suggestion: build a meeting process in which first there are the speeches that he wants, and then open space. (Advantage: probably easy to move along with the client. disadvantage: loses space for the open space. people might leave if the speeches are boring. participants angry if they were invited with a different expectation setup?) (funky middle way option here: put the timing in the agenda, so that sneaky people can skip the speeches and arrive when the open space starts.) 2) Invite the client to put all of his needed speeches in the open space, possibly encouraging him to get up very early after the space was opened, to post his and the other speaker's talks. (Arguments: People are probably interested in what the sponsor has to say. This makes a more powerful invitation than "forcing" people to listen to talks.) (This is something I did once, when I was a sponsor: I had gotten people to help me with a project, and an important early session was to actually tell people more about the project. So there were a number of "speech"-type sessions to convey information to those who needed it.) I hope this helps - good luck! Martin -- Martin Röll, mar...@roell.net, +49 1784984743 Twitter, Skype: martinroell | http://www.roell.net Company news (Feb 14th): http://eepurl.com/baTiRr _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
