[OSList] Help please ~ In the invitation, how do I encourage participation in a whole multi-day event?

2013-10-25 Thread Chris Weaver
Hi OSlist, In the role of co-sponsor rather than facilitator, I am crafting an invitation to a multi-day "all-stakeholder" OST for a public school and its community. There has never been a meeting of this length in this community before. Everyone is busy with work and kids, and many are asking,

Re: [OSList] Help please ~ In the invitation, how do I encourage participation in a whole multi-day event?

2013-10-25 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
Dear Chris, How about including this part of your email in the invitation, slightly edited by me "There has never been a meeting of this length in our community before. We are all busy with work and kids, and some are asking, "Can I just come to one or two of the days/sessions instead of all th

Re: [OSList] Help please ~ In the invitation, how do I encourage participation in a whole multi-day event?

2013-10-25 Thread Diane Gibeault
it aligns with the spirit of the law of the two feet.  Diane From: Michael M Pannwitz To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 9:50:52 AM Subject: Re: [OSList] Help please ~ In the invitation, how do I encourage partic

Re: [OSList] Help please ~ In the invitation, how do I encourage participation in a whole multi-day event?

2013-10-25 Thread Harrison Owen
From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Michael M Pannwitz Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 9:51 AM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] Help please ~ In the invitation, how do I encourage participation in a who

Re: [OSList] Help please ~ In the invitation, how do I encourage participation in a whole multi-day event?

2013-10-25 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
Dear Chris, after seeing all the feedback you got on your question I had the urge to have a look at the full invitation while it is still in a draft stage. And then, I thought it would really utilize the ressources in our list, if several took the draft and work it over, so that you would have x

Re: [OSList] Help please ~ In the invitation, how do I encourage participation in a whole multi-day event?

2013-10-27 Thread Chris Weaver
hey michael, i like your idea of collaboratively designing an invitation & i appreciate your offer to help ~ i'd want to have the whole sponsoring team's approval to share their invitation across the world & don't have time to accomplish that for this event. next time, thinking further ahead, it c