Sorry if this posts twice . . . <br><br>Chris . . . I wonder if you could get your hand on about 15-20 12 foot
long, wood poles to hang the topics on . . . (Local Builder Supply
Store?)<br><br>Have a "runner" with a Mic move about the room for folks
to announce the topics . . . and another runner to hang'm on the poles
. . . Perhaps one pole for each time slot.<br>
<br>Of course, you'll be meandering through the tables with a mic to Open the Space.<br><br>Use the projector capabilities to display the Session Topics grouped by Time to avoid the mass crowd effect at the Marketplace.<br>
<br>I think that once all of the sessions are posted, the tightness of the space will no longer be as much an issue<br><br>I'll be interested to hear how this pans out . . . <br><br>Don't forget that OST ALWAYS works :-)<br>
<br>Best,<br><br>b<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Chris Corrigan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@chriscorrigan.com">chris@chriscorrigan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've been at this a long time now, but I've run up against a situation like this. I'm stumped and looking for help.<br><br>I;ll be opening space for a gethering of 500+ people. The client is completely unwilling to set the room in a circle. Instead, we will have 96 tables with 6 chairs at each table packed into a spacious but full ball room facing a stage. The walls of this room are incredible...they appear to be actually stuffed with cotton and covered in fabric. There is little hope of putting anything on the walls.<br>
<br>On the plus side we will have lots of AV, so there is a goodly amount of technology available to play with for agenda setting and huge screen projection. <br><br>I'm worried on a number of levels as you can imagine, but at the moment I'm trying to put that all aside and figure out, in this worst case scenario, what is the best thing we could do to Open Space? Anyone been faced with similar constraints? Help me out here...<br>
<br>All tips and support I get on this, I'll roll up into a little document on "what to do when nothing is what you need it to be" and we can share it out.<br><br>OSLIST group mind...activate!<br><br>Chris <br clear="all">
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