<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>[[ I am reposting this message I had sent 9 days ago - this time from GMail, it seems the OS List server didn't like my old mail address and swallowed most of the message... hope it works better this time]]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I am discussing with a client the organisation of a 1 day Open Space on regional development in Latin America - on a quite large range of issues from renewable energy to food production to ICTs to environmental management. They expect about 160 people to take part in it.</div><div><br></div><div>In principle we have agreed on it. But now the organisers have come back to me, telling me that they are not able to find a suitable venue for it (it will be in Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, Spain - does anybody coincidentally know a large room there?). The only hotel with a really large room is booked at the given date, the conference centre only has rooms with auditorium furnishing screwed to the floor, so that's not working.</div><div><br></div><div>Now they have found one hotel, where they can get 4 rooms: two of 75 sq.m each and two of 140 sq.m each. Now we will never get 160 persons in one 140 sq.m room for the circle and market place. They now suggest to hold four parallel OS, one in each room with a part of participants: to have four different topics and people choose in which OS they want to participate.</div><div>I think we could get 80 people in each of the two rooms and hold two parallel OS on two topics - and somehow also allow them to drift between the two.</div><div>I would still have the problem that I can only open the space in one of the two and would need a second person for the other half.</div><div><br></div><div>Has anybody ever done something similar? Any suggestions, experiences? Is that risky or even "inspiring"?</div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards,</div><div>-marc</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span><img height="55" width="173" src="cid:65F22F96-B123-4BC0-915C-A79100B0D074"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">IngeniousPeoplesKnowledge</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style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