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At 08:54 AM 2/22/2003 +1000, denis cowan wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>The event is being held at the
powerhouse (an old abandoned powerhouse<br>
which has been turned into a theatre complex). We will be using the<br>
adjacent parkland area for the marketplace. We do not have
any wall<br>
space. Last year we had about 100 workshop proposals. People wrote
their<br>
idea on a piece of cardboard, used a microphone to tell people their
idea<br>
and then placed the cardboard on the ground. It took about 1.5
hours and<br>
the energy was so high that people are still talking about
it.</blockquote><br>
Denis -- Just to make you feel a little better, I do not think you will
have a lot more issues raised than on your previous outing. Some, yes --
but there is a finite limit on the number of things that concern people.
I would bet something in the nature of 120 issues. I don't think your
problem is going to be with the number of issues -- but rather the number
of bodies, and 1000 people is a lot of bodies. And having a wall of
sufficient length will be most important. So how about something mobile
-- like busses? Presumably folks will have to get there on something. And
if they came on busses, and the busses parked in a line, you have a wall.
Or some friendly truckers. Big lorries have lots of side space. Reminds
me of an Open Space for Rockport shoes. We did it in their Distribution
Center, and yes there were walls, but all were obstructed (machines and
such). However, they did have a conveyor belt that ran along the side,
which brought shoes from the back to the shipping floor. I just had the
folks stack lots of shoe boxes on the belt, and when we needed more wall,
we just added more shoes, and pushed the button. Instant Wall.<br><br>
Harrison<br><br>
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