A new topic and request

Steven "Doc" List doc at anotherthought.com
Sun Nov 29 05:55:22 PST 2009 

My experience of larger groups is that it's just more of the same.

Arranging the room for the opening and closing is trickier -  
concentric circles if you can do it.

Creating the agenda takes longer, because there are more topics  
proposed.

You'll need at least one microphone, preferably two if you can arrange  
it - one for you, one for the people proposing their topics.

Beyond that, it's still self-organizing.  The energy flow will be  
large - be prepared (if you can) for the excitement and conversation.   
There will be more butterflies and bumblebees, no doubt.

I envy you.  I love large groups.

..Doc


On Nov 29, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Carol Loughrey wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have not participated in this list for a number of years but have  
> been
> contracted to facilitate an open space that is larger than I am  
> accustomed
> to - 300 to 500 people versus my usual 50 to 100. We are bringing  
> together
> business, government and non-profits in our community to look at the
> question "How do we make Fredericton better."  Although primarily
> spearheaded by social groups the hope is to bring the three groups  
> together
> to find innovative and creative ways to improve our city and life  
> for the
> people in it.  There is a lot of great energy in the organizing team.
>
> Do any of you have any tips, suggestions, or advice re dealing with  
> this
> size of group?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carol
>
>
> On 29/11/09 7:30 AM, "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Michael Dobbie,
>> hope you have a great time in Australia and run into many of the
>> os-workers there! Are you facilitating os-events there or do os- 
>> related
>> stuff? I remember
>> Since I have always just simply participated in the oslist, the  
>> aspect
>> of being invited never came to my mind. Maybe that contributes to  
>> what
>> Harold (and many, as he states) perceives as "forbidding", fat guys  
>> like
>> me taking up the space.
>> The "roll call" in process did reveal to me that there are many on  
>> the
>> list who are mostly in the "learning" mode (as in the Law: "I honor a
>> group with my absence if I neither learn nor contribute. If I  
>> learn, I
>> stay, If I contribute, I stay. But if neither nor, I leave.")
>> By the way, I noticed that the email you used in your post varies  
>> from
>> the one in your info box in the Open Space World Map...let me know if
>> you would like to have it adjusted).
>> Greetings from Berlin
>> mmp
>>
>> Michael Dobbie wrote:
>>> hello all!
>>>    just for the record (so my voice is somehow captured on this  
>>> topic)...
>>>
>>>    in all these years on the list (maybe 8 or 9 years now of  
>>> mostly just
>>> having to listen) i have not found this listserve and it's format  
>>> to be
>>> welcoming to me (easy to use) in a way that "invites" me to  
>>> contribute much
>>> at all,
>>>    i look forward to moving this list along (away from this  
>>> cumbersome,
>>> difficult to read boise listserve system) into something more ning- 
>>> like (but
>>> hopefully better),
>>>    thank you all for your efforts and looking forward to more  
>>> conversation
>>> with you all,
>>>    michael (here in australia for the next 3 months if you're  
>>> nearby and
>>> want to meet up somewhere)
>>>
>>> http://twitter.com/cuixote
>>>
>>>
>>> Date:    Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:47:07 -0700
>>> From:    Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com>
>>> Subject: Re: re honouring each other
>>>
>>> Denise,
>>>
>>> Just a quick note - "into deeper cyber realms" - is not what I would
>>> think is the intent to improve things.
>>>
>>> When things are improved - it should be easier, lighter, more
>>> transparent.    YES!!!
>>>
>>> The "deeper cyber realms" sounds to me rather scary.
>>> For many - and myself as well - the OSList is actually a bit  
>>> forbidding.
>>> Not just technologically. I was scared to post for years.
>>>
>>>    Harold
>>>
>>> Date:    Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:36:52 -0600
>>> From:    Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
>>> Subject: Re: re honouring each other
>>>
>>> ....We have been here for a long time, and it is difficult to move  
>>> into a
>>> new house.*      WHY?
>>>
>>> murli nagasundaram is the guy who first invited us (here) to boise  
>>> state,
>>> and has been the nominal owner as far as the boise state list  
>>> admin folks
>>> are concerned.  my earliest observation in this thread, about the  
>>> oslist
>>> ownership, was just to point out that if boise state decided to  
>>> change their
>>> systems, we have no control at all over that.  for now, we are  
>>> just lucky
>>> that we have murli -- and also lucky that the admin guys like him/ 
>>> us well
>>> enough that we've worked out an arrangement through which the  
>>> admin guys
>>> will to look after us, even if murli were to leave the uni.
>>>
>>> so none of us really owns the oslist, and for the last 13 years,  
>>> it is
>>> working just fine.      for who ????????????
>>>
>>>
>>> to paraphrase ralph, the space doesn't care who owns it.  m
>>>    SOME OF US DO CARE
>>>
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