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Ignore previous message. It was a mistake. -- Kenoli Did they all come offline? I'd love to hear what people said. -- Kenoli Thank you all for your comments on drop-ins - very sensible and appropriate responses. I'll let you know how it worked out. Cheers Viv Please note NEW

Re: Drop-ins

Did they all come offline? I'd love to hear what people said. -- Kenoli Thank you all for your comments on drop-ins - very sensible and appropriate responses. I'll let you know how it worked out. Cheers Viv Please note NEW telephone number Viv McWaters Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd

Re: Drop-ins

Thank you all for your comments on drop-ins - very sensible and appropriate responses. I'll let you know how it worked out. Cheers Viv Please note NEW telephone number Viv McWaters Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd PO Box 665, Torquay 3228 Victoria Australia Ph/Fax: 61 3 5261 9498 Mobile 0417 13

Drop-ins

ed that people come for the whole day if they can). What experiences have others had of dealing with drop-ins, especially politicians who could turn out to be space invaders (an assumption I know - but I'd rather not be caught off-guard given that this will be this community's firs

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conclusions about the drop-ins. Whatever happens . . . Joelle Everett jleshel...@aol.com * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl

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I do a lot of OST meeting in community settings, and in community centres and drop ins are always a possibility. Usually I let the sponsors know that this might happen and I encourage them to embrace the idea. One never knows what those drop ins might contribute. in my experience, people have

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I have encouraged drop-ins. Of course I encourage everyone to be at the opening hour. But I have recently facilitated two open space events where people dropped in and out with quite good success. One with a University Faculty association where some had to leave to go teach a class or have a

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My advice is to make sure that the sponsor knows that anyone who wants to convene a session needs to post it on the community bulletin board, even those who drop in after the space is open. Then hide the microphone so that no one can make a public announcement during the Open Space, and all will

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Viv: I feel very strongly that people who just drop in and haven't been there for much of OS, especially the beginning, can, even inadvertently, close the space a little. I did an OS with a church over a weekend and what we told people was that if you couldn't be there for the opening (Friday eve

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At 03:29 PM 5/16/01 +1000, you wrote: Two or three of the local politicians have indicated they'll be attending for a couple of hours here, an hour there etc (although we asked that people come for the whole day if they can). What experiences have others had of dealing with drop-ins, espec

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Dear Viv, We've had this phenonemon in Scotland quite a bit. It seems to be impossible to get hold of politicians, although at one event last autumn, we did keep an MSP with us all day because he was interested. I don't think we've done anything very special, except to keep very determinedly to th