Collective Wisdom

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear Brendan, dear Nigel,
generally, I am also for "longer" sessions...in the os I facilitate only 
the starting times for the break-out sessions are given and in the 
introduction I point out that the sessions will be as long as needed, 
so, if 20 minutes or 25 minutes are not enough, keep on going (got to 
arrange yourself with another group that might want to use your break 
out space but that always selforganizes nicely)...
on the other hand, I think its nice to have not only two choices but at 
least three, and if the overall time is just 3 hours one of the 
consequences is that the beginning times are closer to each other than 
in, lets say, a one-day affair...
also, with 100 participants you can easily have 34 issuse which, having 
2 starting times, would mean 17 break-out spaces, with 3 times its still 
a lot, but reduces 11 or 12...
I know you will have fun!
Thinking on who else might be at the OST part at the end of the 
conference, this, however,  depending entirely on the Theme chosen for 
that part... auditing students, people teaching that stuff, folks that 
produce software in this field, contributors to professional journals...

See you all in Berlin  next year
mmp


Brendan McKeague wrote:
> Hi Nigel
> I agree on outline from Michael P - and would usually favour 2 x 1 hour 
> break-out sessions
> Important to clarify theme and question with sponsors - I have a sense 
> that your own wisdom is close to the mark...
> "presumably addressing some of the potential learnings of the previous 
> day and a half and how they might take them back to make a real 
> difference?"
> Sounds like a wonderful opportunity to expand your experience...and, 
> after 1.5 days of standard speechifying by those who enjoy such 
> deliveries, the Auditing and Risk Managing folks will just LOVE it - 
> after their initial shock!
> Cheers Brendan (from a warming Perth)
> 
> At 07:38 PM 9/11/2009, you wrote:
>> Dear Nigel,
>> how about the classical approach?
>> The planning group for the os event developes a theme and you show 
>> them the design for a 3 hour open space:
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