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<DIV><SPAN class=050015014-07052003><FONT face=Arial>Erich,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=050015014-07052003><FONT face=Arial>thank you for capturing the
photostory and for your willingness to share it. And thank you and Gabi for
raising important questions so that we can all really learn from this experience
that Harrison and Michael went for. In an event like this, I think the biggest
risk and the possible biggest benefit was to the facilitators of OST who are in
Germany. If the ongoing story is one of appreciation of OST, there will be a
large increased use of OST. If the ongoing story is one from people who felt
alone/bored and so on, that too, with such a large number of witnesses, will be
the story to be contended with. Time will tell.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=050015014-07052003><FONT
face=Arial>Blessings,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=050015014-07052003><FONT face=Arial>Birgitt</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Erich
Kolenaty<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 07, 2003 5:48 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> OS of 2108 -- I was
there<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Yes, I was
there!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>It was a great event and an
exciting experience. And it does work! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>I made a lot of photographs to
document the historical moment. I will look it through next days
and create a photostory in a powerpointfile or so. Everybody who likes
may download it from my homepage. I will announce it to you all, when it's
ready.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>It is only a pity, that a camera
can hardly</FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>catch the
impression of the masses in the huge tent: around 2.700mē of space and
the people sitting on cushions round the middle. It looked like at a tennis
center court. (And there was a second, smaller tent nearby, for the catering
supply and some of the working groups.) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Now it is over and time for
reflection and further learning is coming:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>It is great, that we proved, that
it works with really a crowd. Actually it was a simple OS application -
finishing day in a 4-days congress. But to be true, there are a lot of
questions uprising to be answered. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>And all questions come
along with the complexity, which is created by the huge number of
people </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Here are some of them:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>* There was no need for a
marketplace with real dealing. Imagine a bulletin line with 230 topics on,
of approximately 200m lenght in three sections (one for each working
session) along three walls. Quiet a work only to walk it up. It' s ok, if you
are only looking for a nice party to talk, but if you want to overview a lot
of topics of serious meaning for the system, it is not that easy. And how to
make deals within this distances?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>* Mass psychology and
time structure: At one hand people need more time to keep orientated
what's going - and doing all the marches (Hard work for bumblebees). This
means, you need some extratime between the timeslots of the working sessions.
At the other hand someone can feel damned lonesome, if your are lost in a
crowd of 2000 and there is nothing really going on. At the end of a congress
people may avoid unpleasuring feelings simple by leaving (and many
dropped off). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>I don't have any ideas how to
handle that at the moment, but may be it is not a problem at all.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>* Reports: Michaels way of
giving out report sheets for handwriting on a clipboard to every group
worked very well. But if you want to support 60 people each working session to
write reports in an IT-system, you need a lot of technical stuff. And it
needs a lot of reading time, too. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>* Visualizing: There were no
flipcharts (or pinboards). That was fine, because you had an
unlimited view from one end to the other. If you would like to
support peoples work to come to pleasuring outcomes, visualization is very
helpful. This probably means you need even more space and may be a
different concept of structuring the hall. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>* There was no need for a
convergence. Folks conveined to topics of there passions (and some of them
where really strange) and everybody participating in a session, picked out
experiences for his own individual benefit. But how to converge 180
reports in a appropriate way? Maybe we need adapted structuring ideas for
procedures. Not to mention the masses of paper to copy the book (round 400.000
sheets). The electronic voting system helps a lot, anyway you need a huge
technical supply.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>It was a great event and at the
same time it opens up an enormous field of new learnings and experiences
needed. Let's do it..</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Erich from lovely
Vienna </FONT></DIV>
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