<div>Hello LIz.</div>
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<div>I also live in Bristol and was once involved in an OS event for 1,000 people. The location was Caen, France; the client was Bosch; and the facilitator was Chris Schoch, who features in Harrison's anthology, Tales from Open Space.</div>
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<div>I've been working with OS since 1988 and have a lot of experience, both with designing, organising and facilitating OS events, and with connecting the events with the broader flow of activities before and after the event.</div>
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<div>Happy to meet with you (Canteen? Watershed?).</div>
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<div>Warm wishes,</div>
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<div>Jack<br clear="all"></div>
<div>Jack Martin Leith<br>Founder, The Samurai<br>A community of innovation warriors<br>Mobile: 07831 840541 (+44 7831 840541)<br><a href="http://www.the-samurai.net/" target="_blank">www.the-samurai.net</a> | <a href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/" target="_blank">www.jackmartinleith.com</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 21 July 2010 16:00, Liz Martins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lizmartins2@gmail.com">lizmartins2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">I’m involved in a large-scale community project in Bristol, UK, based on OS. As well as local OS events across the city, it culminates in large (1500 people) OS event in February. I’ll put information about the project below, if you’re interested.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">No doubt I’ll be coming to the list quite a few times over the next months, but just now I’d really appreciate some help about…</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 39pt"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> </span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Whether anyone has a large event coming up (in the UK or Europe) that might be possible for some of our project team to attend</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 39pt"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> </span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Whether anyone has done something like our project and is willing to share any learning</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">And, starting to think about the process detail for the big event (which is in a big theatre with additional breakout space in a large modern extension so has limitations on flexibility)</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 39pt"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> </span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">We know we’re going to need masses of additional wall space and wondering how best to achieve this - we’ve seen/heard of people using portable stands, cardboard walls etc – what’s out there?</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 39pt"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> </span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">What about people signing up or not signing up – what’s lost if they don’t do this and just go to the conversations? The ‘traffic’ is going to be a challenge, and this would be one less thing to do.</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 39pt"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> </span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Our plan is to have separate sections of wall for the different session times – but within this, any thoughts about whether, given the large numbers of people, it’s best to use a grid or free-form posting using post-its? </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 39pt"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> </span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Experience of using large video screen(s) so people can see what’s going on the wall?</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 39pt"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> </span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Thoughts about convergence in very large events?</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 39pt"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol">·<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> </span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Anything else that you think of that might be helpful….!</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">With many thanks in anticipation of help</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Liz </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Liz Martins</span></font></p>
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<h1><font size="2"><i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Bristol Open Space Project - Part of EY2010: European Year for Combating<span> </span>Poverty and Social Exclusion.</span></i></font></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Open Space project is part of a larger European project (EY2010). Key aims are to give voice to those experiencing poverty and social exclusion and also to raise awareness of how we need to work together as a society towards equality and inclusion. Bristol’s response to EY2010 is a series of events and projects around the whole city under the heading of “Working Together for Positive Change”. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Open Space project,<span> </span>A Better Bristol For All, aims to support better contact and flow of creativity between local grassroots social and community action groups within the context of the whole of Bristol.<span> </span>Each neighbourhood is being invited to put on an Open Space event to look at local connections and creativity and then culminate in coming together in February 2011 in one mass open space event. This will bring together the ideas, creativity and inspiration that has been sparked locally, so that Bristol comes together, to be more in contact, more creative, and move to a Better Bristol for All.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">The project starts with forming a project team of about 16 people keen to learn about facilitating OS meetings and using it in their future work in communities. The aim is to grow ‘OS’ facilitation as a resource for the city. Most of these people are already signed up. There’s a one-day training in OS for them in September with more during the project.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">The flow of the project is to start with a central focus involving key people, then out to local communities, and then back to the major event in February. In October there’s an OS day with about 100 people from the council and Bristol city neighbourhood partnerships, grassroots community groups, service users etc. This event will provide the impetus for taking the project out to the local areas. In Nov/Dec/Jan there will be 12 local neighbourhood OS events across the city, funded by the project and facilitated by people from the project team, working with local organisers. Then, in February there will be the final big OS event bringing together people from across the city who have been involved in the neighbourhood events, and others, including from European cities twinned with Bristol.<span> </span>The key themes that come out of the project will be taken forward and presented to local and national government. </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">I’m holding responsibility for the OS process, with my colleague Vivian Broughton who had the vision for the project initially. We will be training and supporting the project team and facilitating events ourselves or supporting project team members to do so. The logistics, budget, PR etc and everything else are being held elsewhere, though we will be involved where it impacts on the OS process. Vivian and I both have experience of facilitating OS, and Vivian was at the big 2000+ event in Germany facilitated by HO and Michael P, but we haven’t done it like this before, at such scale. We expect to be very surprised!</span></font></p>
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