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[Michael Herman]

thinking a bit more about this... canadian tables or any of these other
options already mentioned for creating a wall will certainly be workable.
so thinking again about the tables as the primary obstacle, i think i can
say the tables thing a little clearer than yesterday.

if... you make a wall someplace, get everyone to look at you, wander around
the tables, open heart, opening briefing, come post your topics on the
wall...

then... create the grid such that there are 96 breakout spaces and your
(three, did you say?) timeslots.  you know there won't be 300 topics raised,
but no matter.  let the tables be the gathering points.  some groups of just
the right size will meet at the tables.  the rest of the groups, large and
small will swallow or slip between or push around the tables to suit
themselves.  you know a group of 500 will carry away anything that truly is
getting in its way.

so the tables will waste a lot of space, and a pad or two of post-its.
other than that, it's business as usual.

incidently, the cafe thing i did last weekend was 20 tables of 5-6 in a very
cozy arrangement and so the closing plenary was a 120-person huddle, with 20
tables mixed in, rather than any sort of circle.  worked great.  felt
great.  not sure how 500 in plenary huddle will work for figuring out who
talks next, but i suppose that's rationed with having only a few
microphones.  probably important to have not too much lining up at the
microphone or the commenters stop listening to each other and the comments
disconnect.  airplane restroom rules, i suppose, no lines.

anyway, seems you can get them darned close and the crowd will handle the
rest.

m




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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jack Ricchiuto <jack at designinglife.com>wrote:

> One of the OS themes here has been and will continue to be good uses of
> technologies to facilitate everything open space. And as a shameless daily
> twitterer and process designer, I remind myself often how the quality of our
> energy as inviters and conveners is always more important than anything. It
> is our spirit that calls forth the hearts of others into new conversations
> that deeply connect, reveal, heal. At the beginning and the end of the day,
> it's all about the listening we invite. The listening ...
>
> With gratitude, Jack
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> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:
>
>> chris,
>>
>> as for the walls challenge, might the discovery of our future search
>> friends
>> from a few years ago be of value here?:
>>
>> the use of foamcore boards to create instant walls for posting flipchart
>> paper wherever you are.
>>
>> perhaps the FS people onlist or others familiar with the generative
>> wonders
>> of foamcore can chime in here...
>>
>> greetings from the southern suburb of tehrangeles,
>> raffi
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