[OSList] urgent need of your wisdom : how to reassure a political guy who fears that the OST format will not be inclusive enough ?

[Martin Roell via OSList]

Hi Christine,

thank you for sharing!

As the time is short, I will simply launch some ideas over to you and
trust that you will use or discard them if they match or don't match
your situation:

christine koehler via OSList wrote:
>(...) now he want a few discourses speeches from
> a variety of actors before opening the space so that everyone knows
> about all this and that…

I see two options here:

1) Go with his suggestion: build a meeting process in which first there
are the speeches that he wants, and then open space.

(Advantage: probably easy to move along with the client. disadvantage:
loses space for the open space. people might leave if the speeches are
boring. participants angry if they were invited with a different
expectation setup?)

(funky middle way option here: put the timing in the agenda, so that
sneaky people can skip the speeches and arrive when the open space starts.)

2) Invite the client to put all of his needed speeches in the open
space, possibly encouraging him to get up very early after the space was
opened, to post his and the other speaker's talks. (Arguments: People
are probably interested in what the sponsor has to say. This makes a
more powerful invitation than "forcing" people to listen to talks.)

(This is something I did once, when I was a sponsor: I had gotten people
to help me with a project, and an important early session was to
actually tell people more about the project. So there were a number of
"speech"-type sessions to convey information to those who needed it.)

I hope this helps - good luck!

Martin
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