[OSList] number of breakout groups

[Dr. Christian Kemper]

Am 06.06.19 um 01:10 schrieb Michael M Pannwitz via OSList:

> I wonder what additional parameters other than than number of 
> participants and length of the event would have to be considered for a 
> more reliable tool to predict the number of issues to be expected at 
> an OST event.

Hihi, Michael:-)

As far as I experienced there is no rule or reliable answer to this 
question - it depends on so many factors (e.g. how urgent is the os, how 
complex the question, how unknown the answer, how conflictual the 
problem, how diverse the group and so on).

But one thing I was able to see so often is that the younger the people 
are the more issues they raise. In open spaces with children there are 
sometimes as many issues as people participate, the maximum I saw was 
1.3 issues per person (in a 1.5 day os with around 100 people).

I also remember one girl who raised eleven issues in a three-day open 
space with six starting times.

And i remember the boy, who negotiated his issue in the same open space 
over the whole time, again and again and supplemented and expanded it 
and finally probably negotiated with all 250 people right up to the 
action planning. It was: "Cocoa instead of milk in the breaks". At the 
next meeting he reported and justified with a broad chest and proudly 
that it was not implemented after he had gone through all school 
instances (and democracy learned from it).

Sunny greetings to all of you!

Christian

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>
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
>
> Am 05.06.2019 um 17:37 schrieb Harrison Owen via OSList:
>> And then there was the time when Michael Pannwitz and I had 2108 
>> participants… And I think we ended up with 175 Groups. We grossly 
>> under-estimated (75) – but fortunately you can add groups as  many as 
>> you need. The People are always right, and they will claim the space 
>> they need. Facilitators are only guessing – and then just get out of 
>> the way J
>>
>> Harrison
>>
>> *From:*OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On 
>> Behalf Of *Lori Palano via OSList
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 5, 2019 9:51 AM
>> *To:* oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
>> *Cc:* Lori Palano
>> *Subject:* [OSList] number of breakout groups
>>
>> Hello all
>>
>> A number of years ago I seem to remember a resource shared on this 
>> list that calculated an average number of breakout groups that tended 
>> to show up according to the total number of participants based on the 
>> cumulated experience of this community. Does this ring a bell with 
>> anyone? I think it was an excel sheet. I'd like to find it again, but 
>> so far my searching hasn't lead to anything.
>>
>> Here's hoping!
>>
>> Lori
>>
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