Laptop free OST?

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Hi Chris,
in the 50 plus os-events I have facilitated, laptops or other
computers were used in only 5 or 6. Rest was handwritten. I provide a
form and fineliner pens and there are instructions to write "loud and
clear". During the introduction I say a few words about the
documentation and that people would like to be able to read it.
The form (regular letter size, or A4, a European format slightly
different) has the theme of the os written on top followed by a space
for the issue, a space for the "results, recommendations, plans", and
a space for the name of convenor and finally space for the
participants. If people need more than one sheet they just take
additional ones. I have these forms in the workgroup spaces and more
in a central place.
When proceedings are given to the copy person ( I always have one
fast copy machine on site), the sheet is enlarged to A3, which is
double letter size, and then put on the newswall so people dont have
to squint.(These larger sheets I later use in the convergence round).
The original is used for the set of proceedings. Works very well. I
find that handwritten pieces are more to the point, shorter, have a
"character" of their own, people add diagramms, etc. Its very fast.
If you have a fast copy machine with a sorter (as we have on the site
where Gabriela and I are doing a training just now), and there are
fewer than 40 participants (there are 25 in this training) the
proceedings can be copied all in one swoop. If you have larger
numbers, then we copy all the time and collate parallel.
I always get a table of content into the proceedings and an updated
participants list with name, postal address, phone, fax, email and
website.
What I like about this handwritten mode is that everyone sees it can
be done low tech anywhere. What might be missing is the possibility
of working with the proceedings in wordprocessing systems. But then I
rarely get that kind of feedback from participants...they are usually
much keener on stuff like what do we do next.
You can have a look at the form I use at
http://www.michaelMpannwitz.de/o_begleiter_einfuehrung_9.htm, its in
German, but you get the general notion.
Greetings from Berlin from this training to your training.
michael

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:43:30 -0800, Chris Corrigan wrote:

>Anybody done an OS without laptops?  How did you handle the
>proceedings?  Handwritten or what?
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