[OSList] How long for opening for smaller group?

[Tom Brown]

Jeff & Jake,
I’ve also done these mini open spaces.  With greater and lesser success.  When I have times much smaller than 2 hours I tend to think of using Lean Coffee as a form of (Open Space Light).  Because of the amount of basic opening and closing overhead build into Open Space is not justified as a percentage of the overall time available. I want to get folks interacting.  Not listing to someone set things up.

With Lean Coffee, If I have a larger group (20 and more), then breaking the group down into groups of less than 20 or so seems to be important for Lean Coffee.  Also a Table or wall is helpful with Lean Coffee to post topics.

--Tom Brown
tgb417 at gmail.com
On Apr 10, 2019, 11:52 AM -0400, Jeff Aitken via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>, wrote:
> Hi. One evening we only had two hours for 130 people. So the design was 30 minutes opening, two 30 minute session times, and a 30 minute closing. It was a lively loud church hall full of Occupy activists, raising the spirit and the roof.
>
> If we had 3 hours we would have planned 45 minutes for each.
>
> Jeff
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>
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 4:55 AM Barry Owen via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> > > Greetings Jake! My experience is that virtually every space I've opened, the opening is @ 45 minutes - I "schedule" an hour for it.
> > >
> > > Larger groups can take longer just because the Marketplace is more busy.
> > >
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> > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 6:47 AM Jake Yeager via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> > > > > Hey everyone,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am helping to arrange an Open Space for about 30 participants. In Harrison's User Guide he indicates 1.5 hours for the opening. This seems a little long for a smaller group. What does everyone think?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > All the best,
> > > > > Jake
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