<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">My rule of thumb is that smaller groups, say under 25, plan for half of people to post a session. In the middle, say 25-200, plan on 1/3 of people posting sessions and over that, about 20% will post sessions.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I recall a spreadsheet on how to determine room size and how many concentric circles depending on numbers. Koos de Heer posted this in 2003: <a href="http://www.auryn.nl/eng/requirements.html" class="">http://www.auryn.nl/eng/requirements.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peggy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 5, 2019, at 8:03 AM, Jennifer Hurley via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I’ve always found that the number of topics get named for roughly 10 people per group, with slightly smaller groups (more topics) when the total group size is smaller and slightly larger when the total is larger. <br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Jennifer Hurley<div class="">Hurley-Franks & Associates<br class=""><div class="">267-971-4598</div><div class="">Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div><div class=""><br class="">On Jun 5, 2019, at 9:50 AM, Lori Palano via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="ydpa9e32affyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></div><div class="ydpa9e32affyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">
</div><div class="ydpa9e32affyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Hello all</div><div class="ydpa9e32affyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="ydpa9e32affyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">A number of years ago I seem to remember a resource shared on this list that calculated an average number of breakout groups that tended to show up according to the total number of participants based on the cumulated experience of this community. Does this ring a bell with anyone? I think it was an excel sheet. I'd like to find it again, but so far my searching hasn't lead to anything.</div><div class="ydpa9e32affyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="ydpa9e32affyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Here's hoping!</div><div class="ydpa9e32affyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br class=""></div><div class="ydpa9e32affyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Lori</div><div class="ydp5edbbcafyahoo_quoted" id="ydp5edbbcafyahoo_quoted_0028619472"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;" class="">
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