OST as a conference track

Ralph Copleman ralph at earthdreams.net
Tue May 7 03:29:47 PDT 2002


Peg,

I¹ve never done the conference-within-the-conference thing, but I bet there
must be a way to make that work.

But I agree on the closing.  That sounds like an awful mess waiting to spill
all over.  Listen to Harrison¹s Mommy.

Ralph

On 5/7/02 12:27 AM, "Harrison Owen" <owenhh at mindspring.com> wrote:

> At 09:02 AM 5/6/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>> I'm doing an Open Space in a few weeks that has a few twists (don't they
>> all?) and would appreciate your thoughts.
>>  
>> The setting is a 4-day conference of Computer Professionals for Social
>> Responsibility.  The Open Space is on the last 2 days.  The first twist is
>> that the OST event isn't for the whole conference.  It is a track of the
>> conference on a particular topic  (Building a Pattern Language of Living
>> Communication). It won't be closed in any way; anyone can come and go.  It
>> does have it's own space and will run on it's own schedule.  It's just that
>> other conference sessions will be happening around it.
>>  
>> First question -- has anyone done this? Any advice?
> 
> I have. Advice: Don't do it.
> 
>>  The second twist is that the closing circle is envisioned as the conference
>> closing.  This means that it will include not just the people who have been
>> in the OST event but everyone who attended the conference.  Again, anyone
>> have experience with something like this?
> 
> No -- and I can't imagine how it would work. should be a great learning
> moment. 
> 
> Doubtless my comments will be perceived as being less than helpful. but having
> been there, done it (at least partially) and have fully resolved not to do it
> again -- I could do nothing other than my Mommy always taught me. Call it like
> it is.
> 
> Harrison
> 

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