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<FONT FACE="Palatino">Peg,<BR>
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I’ve never done the conference-within-the-conference thing, but I bet there must be a way to make that work.<BR>
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But I agree on the closing. That sounds like an awful mess waiting to spill all over. Listen to Harrison’s Mommy.<BR>
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Ralph<BR>
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On 5/7/02 12:27 AM, "Harrison Owen" <owenhh@mindspring.com> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Palatino">At 09:02 AM 5/6/2002 -0700, you wrote:<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">I'm doing an Open Space in a few weeks that has a few twists (don't they all?) and would appreciate your thoughts.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">The setting is a 4-day conference of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. The Open Space is on the last 2 days. The first twist is that the OST event isn't for the whole conference. It is a track of the conference on a particular topic (Building a Pattern Language of Living Communication). It won't be closed in any way; anyone can come and go. It does have it's own space and will run on it's own schedule. It's just that other conference sessions will be happening around it. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">First question -- has anyone done this? Any advice?<BR>
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I have. Advice: Don't do it.<BR>
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</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Palatino"> </FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">The second twist is that the closing circle is envisioned as the conference closing. This means that it will include not just the people who have been in the OST event but everyone who attended the conference. Again, anyone have experience with something like this?<BR>
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No -- and I can't imagine how it would work. should be a great learning moment. <BR>
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Doubtless my comments will be perceived as being less than helpful. but having been there, done it (at least partially) and have fully resolved not to do it again -- I could do nothing other than my Mommy always taught me. Call it like it is.<BR>
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