[OSList] OST facilitation technique: too prescriptive?

[Tom Brown]

I love when those attending take on this self policing roll. What we are 
going for is self organization.

--Tom Brown tgb417 at gmail.com


On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Chuni Li via OSList 
<oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
Hi Dan,
"Please return to your seat after posting your session" is actually in my 
script. The fact that I say this doesn't mean chatting won't happen around 
the market place. But I think it's fine to state this request out of 
respect. What often happens is when it gets to noisy and people can't hear 
the new announcements, someone will always shout out to quiet the noise.
Chuni
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList < 
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org [oslist at lists.openspacetech.org] > wrote:
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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