SV: [OSLIST] My first OS

[Lise Damkjær]

Hi Bui,
Congratulations, you have a lot of fun coming right up ;-)

I think that the challenge in your situation could be to get the small
amount of people to actually divide into sessions and for real use their
"law of two feet". They might believe that they can have a good discussion
all together with all themes. 
To get them to "flow" more - individuals walking from one session to another
and concentrating on one theme at a time - I would emphasize the law of two
feet in my opening - and make time for 3 sessions of 40 minutes - If there
are few people 45 min will get them into deep discussion and if they have
the possibility of participating in 3 different themes, they will easier
accept that they cannot participate in everything - I hope! 
And since they are volunteers, they probably have lots of themes, they want
to discuss.
My timetable would be: 
15 min opening, 15 min agenda creation
3 sessions of 40 min
30 min actionplanning like this: 
	5 min individual reflection: From what you know right now, what
seems 	to you to be the action plan? 
	5 min individual reflection: For what are you willing and eager to
take responsibility?
	20 min: marketplace - present your action-plan ideas and network to
get somebody to help you to do your responsibility-work! 

Enjoy!

Lise, Copenhagen




Lise Damkjær
Engineer and FLOWhost
T: +45 2949 9636 (Denmark)

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Fra: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] På vegne af Bui Petersen
Sendt: 16. april 2009 04:04
Til: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Emne: [OSLIST] My first OS

Hi everyone,

It looks like I finally will be facilitating my first ever OS a week and 
a half from now. It is for a recently formed (actually still forming) 
volunteer group I'm a member of and we want to meet to sort out the 
direction we want to go in. Since we're all volunteers, time is limited 
and we've only been able to set aside 3 hours. Obviously we want to 
cover as many issues as possible, so the question is how much time to 
schedule for each session. With this group I don't think I need to spend 
too much time in the opening explaining the process and since we are 
very small (10 or less), I don't expect the agenda creation to take long 
either.

The group would like to leave with some clear action plans but I'm not 
sure how to do that with the limited time we've got. I like people 
having time to sleep on things, but that obviously won't happen unless 
we all manage to have a 5 minute nap. I have thought of ways to leave 
the action planning for later, but I haven't found a good way to do that 
either. Either it will be too long before we meet again, or we have to 
do it electronically.
I should mention that since I am an integral member of the group the 
others don't want me to stay completely out of the discussions. I think 
I have found a way to deal with this. I will just have to see what 
happens. While I don't expect us to see the full potential of OST with 
time we've got, I am hoping the group will see it's usefulness for other 
larger and public events.

So if anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with the time 
challenges, I would be forever grateful.

Thanks,

Bui Petersen

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