coffee

[Ted Ernst]

Yes, our starting conditions are much better this time.  The 2007 conference
won't happen until October, but I'm already getting pushback on a morning
plenary every day.  We'll see.  Plenty of time as you say, and whatever
happens is the only thing that could have.  I'm amazed that they've made me
Open Space Chair and given me an opening plenary and closing plenaries each
day.  We're way ahead of last year's schedule, that's for sure!

Any plans to be in Montreal in October? :-)

On 12/14/06, Gerard Muller <gm at openspace.dk> wrote:
>
> Hello Ted,
>
> In my experience, in cases where OS is one of the (paralel) activities
> in a larger conference,
> usually the starting point is that the OS schedule must adapt to the
> "general" schedule.
>
> Don't take this as a given, would be my suggestion. Over the years, I
> have moved from assuming
> that a framework was in place which was a given I could accept or not,
> to deciding I joined a team,
> then was part of a team that was committed to create as much synergy as
> possible between various
> activities.
>
> First of all, while it is sort of convenient to be there at the start
> of a "normal" presentation,
> that is not necessary at all for the OS sessions. So why not have for
> example 3 OS sessions
> paralel to 2x 90+30 ?
>
> Second, based on our experience last year, the WikiSym crowd is likely
> to be rather
> more flexible than most.
>
> Thirdly, it is still some time until WikSym 2007 will happen. Why
> speculate on possible solutions
> if the schedule cannot be changed instead of changing the schedule ? I
> would say your starting position
> is much better than last year, when those you were talking to did not
> really know what OS was.
>
> Greetings from across the Big Pond,
>
>
>
>
> Gerard Muller
> Open Space Institute Denmark
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> Mail: gm at openspace.dk
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Ted Ernst wrote:
>
> > I'm on the organizing committee for WikiSym 2007, a traditional
> > academic conference started in 2005, that Gerard Muller and I
> > facilitated OST for in 2006.  On the committee email list we've been
> > talking about how to further integrate OST into the rest of the
> > conference.  The subject of the schedule came up and it was said that
> > because we're co-located with OOPLSA (a huge traditional academic
> > conference), we're stuck with their 90 minute sessions with 30 minute
> > coffee breaks in between.  So, of course I had to point out that if we
> > were using OST as written in the book, we wouldn't need to schedule
> > the breaks, as we'd have the coffee out all the time and people would
> > take care of themselves.
> >
> > Someone wrote back to say that at agile conferences, they use a
> > schedule with coffee breaks in it and the OST works fine.  He said
> > that: "turn the whole conference into a coffee break" isn't meant to
> > say that literally coffee has to be available all the time.
> >
> > The next response was from Ward Cunningham, the Harrison Owen of the
> > wiki-world.  He said that he can't believe how hard it is to get a cup
> > of coffee at these conferences.  He says fantastic conversations are
> > happening and by the time they break up, the coffee has been removed!
> >
> > I'll keep you posted on the WikiSym2007 coffee situation as
> > developments arise. :-)
> >
> > peace,
> > ted
> >
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