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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>
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<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).
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<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>
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<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>
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<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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