Re: Genetic Engineering and genetic modification

2003-06-07 Thread Michael Herman
Anne Pattillo wrote: I ve been asked to facilitate a consultation event on the implementation of New Zealand s approach to issues surrounding genetic engineering and genetic modification. I m using open space at the first event. It will have anywhere between 200 400 people attending, a mix of

Re: Non-ideal rooms any ideas?

2003-06-07 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Doris-- One recent Open Space was at a brand-new, just-opened resort hotel. They were still painting in some areas. After consulting, we decided to pull out the dividing wall to use for session posters. They allowed us to post things with tape on the wooden doors, and to use chart paper with "P

Re: Non-ideal rooms any ideas?

2003-06-07 Thread Doris Gottlieb
Hi Lisa, Chris and Michael, Thanks so much for the advice and the support. This has given me a lot of ideas to go back and talk to the people at the venue and stand my guns about the tables (also my instinct.) knowi ng that I’m not alone :-) As an aside, it feels really good to know that, as a les

Portuguese (Brasilian) translation of OST Users Guide - a Review

2003-06-07 Thread Artur Ferreira da Silva
Hello friends: Thanks to a kind "sponsor", I have been able to put my eyes on the Portuguese translation (Brazilian edition) of the OST User's Guide! I have decided to share with you a "review" of that edition, especially as I have some VERY GOOD NEWS to all of us, and particularly to Harrison, t

AW: quote The lights !

2003-06-07 Thread Susanne Hildebrand
Hallo everybody, thanks a lot for your support by good wishes + shareware ... I´m just to much under pressure right now to translate my mail to os-deutsch, containing a short sort of "expose", but I ´ll be back if the work is done ;-) Best wishes, Susanne together, lisa and i have managed to pos

Re: Guidance how to do OS with illiterate people and local communities

2003-06-07 Thread John Engle
hi mikk. perhaps you already found this text but in case you did not: http://www.beyondborders.net/OSIlliterate.htm (my colleague was kind enough to post it on the website for me but i'm not too wild about the url he used.) here's another story: Open Space in Oral Cultures last month i did

Non-ideal rooms any ideas?

2003-06-07 Thread Doris Gottlieb
Hi, I’ve been asked to do an Open Space at the closing meeting of the Women’s International Network in the Netherlands. Yesterday I went to the room that they found and booked (not after I went with one of the sponsor’s to about 10 different rooms all of which were either, too expensive, too sma

Re: Non-ideal rooms any ideas?

2003-06-07 Thread Lisa Heft
Hi, Doris – I’ve made agenda walls out of office partitions, moveable exhibit walls, banner/butcher paper hanging from very high up to all the way down so it’s attached (by the hotel) at the ceiling and lays flat against the wall, poster boards leaning on the wall…and of course those global (Cana

Re: Non-ideal rooms any ideas?

2003-06-07 Thread Michael Herman
hello doris, try this for the wall... http://www.globalchicago.net/ost and look for the link for canadian tables in the practice notes section. a wall in no time. mmpannwitz can maybe say something of german tables. the buffet will let folks take smaller easier to manage plates of food, i imagin