[OSList] OST facilitation technique: too prescriptive?

[Daniel Mezick]

Greetings All,

Lately I am noticing that, at the end of the building of Marketplace, 
more than 1/2 or even 2/3 of the people may be milling around out of 
their seats by the Marketplace chatting while the last 10 or 15 sessions 
are getting announced and going to the wall. It can get loud, and 
sometimes the last few folks do not really get heard.

So I'm thinking of telling all the folks, as we start announcing topics, 
"...After you post your session to the Marketplace, we ask you to please 
return to your seat, to experience and hear the announcing of the rest 
of the sessions. After all the announcements of all of the sessions 
slows down, we'll declare the Marketplace open, leave our seats, and go 
to work. Thanks."

Assume there are 275-300 people in this situation.

If you have experience, I have 2 questions for you:

Is asking the folks to return to their seats too prescriptive in your 
view? Why or why not?


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