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    <p>As someone who has had early childhood system clients for
      decades, I want to reinforce Birgitt's observations, especially
      about how important prework is to getting the whole system in the
      room.<br>
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    <p>One additional layer I will add is government and politics. Early
      childhood education (ECE), especially subsidized and other
      publicly funded ECE  is highly regulated. There is usually
      federal, state, and local regulation and, very frequently, the
      regulations are not in alignment. Public funding is rooted in
      compliance - the "givens" Birgitt refers to. Also, regulations
      typically lag research on best practices, creating another source
      of tension. <br>
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    <p>From my perspective, early childhood education is one of the most
      critical public policy matters in the US. I'm glad you are taking
      it on. Best wishes.<br>
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          style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">First, I was excited to
          see that the topic was child welfare, a very important topic
          with a decision time of yesterday....in other words, long
          overdue as our child welfare systems have many problems
          leaving vulnerable children at risk.</div>
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          style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Then, when I saw it was
          only six hours, I went into my 'oh crap' mode as this is one
          of my personal pet peeves. My career began in child welfare
          and it is one of the reasons why at age 21 I decided to become
          an organizational consultant that could influence systems. So
          yes, whole system in the 'room' is great. However, the amount
          of time for such a complex topic and so very much that needs
          to be addressed and changed is so completely inadequate. </div>
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          one more important consideration beyond the technology and
          beyond the facilitation. This is about prep...figuring out who
          should be invited, getting the invitation right, and getting
          the givens right at the very least. Who defines the 'whole
          system' and is it sufficiently inclusive...will parents,
          children, foster children, former foster children, and people
          who are now adults who needed the child welfare system when
          they were younger. The givens will be challenging to work out.
          Is the OST meeting to be set up for action or only for
          conversation/input? If set up for action, is there a budget to
          support follow through and what are the givens associated with
          budget? If there is to be action, is there a structure
          envisioned to support action, or is it an event that if there
          is an idea that appeals to someone, they just go and do it? So
          many more questions that need to be thought through for the
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          PM Lucas Cioffi via OSList <<a
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            <div>Hi All,</div>
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            <div>Someone asked me for advice about hosting an online
              open space with 1500 people who work on child welfare. 
              They want to get the "whole system in the room", including
              government, professionals, families, etc.</div>
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            <div>I can see that there are at least two separate parts to
              this challenge: tech/software and facilitation.</div>
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            <div><b>1. Tech/Software:</b> What technology decisions
              would you make to accommodate 1500, since the capacity of
              Zoom meetings is 1000?  I wrote up my thoughts on this
              part at the bottom of this email.</div>
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            <div><b>2. Facilitation:</b> This is the main question that
              I have for colleagues on OSLIST.  What special design
              considerations would you have during an open space (online
              or not) with more than 1500 people?  Here are some
              questions that come to mind:</div>
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                <li>How many sessions do you think people will propose
                  if this is a 1-day, 6 hour event with 3-4 rounds of
                  discussion sessions?  I searched OSLIST and found this
                  from Harrison in 2016: "<span
style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif";font-size:14.6667px">Rule
                    of thumb... for all these years.... 5 break our
                    rooms/spaces per 100 participants. For smaller
                    groups (+- 50) a </span><span
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style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif";font-size:14.6667px">room
                    with nooks usually works better. I’ve had groups of
                    25 with 4-5 groups working at the same time.</span>" 
                  So that would mean 50 spaces, therefore up to 150
                  sessions, but I would expect that the rule of thumb
                  acts more as a maximum as groups get larger, because
                  there's probably a lot of duplicate topics as groups
                  get larger.<br>
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                <li>If there are 150 sessions proposed, do you give
                  everyone a chance to speak their session to the large
                  group or just view the list of sessions?  If everyone
                  had just 15 seconds then that would be 38 minutes of
                  just listening to session topics.  Ahh!!</li>
                <li>How do you make it easy for participants to merge
                  their sessions together?  I guess they could ask to
                  move to a Zoom breakout room and we could pair them
                  off for a moment, or they could connect with each
                  other in chat -- that seems practical.</li>
              </ul>
              <div>My thoughts on tech options are below.</div>
              <div>Any other thoughts that you have?  Thank you!  </div>
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                people in Zoom + Qiqo</font></div>
            <div>Qiqo has a max capacity of 2500, and Zoom has a max
              capacity of 1000 <b><i>interactive</i></b> participants in
              a single meeting.  There are several solid options for
              increasing the event size above 1000 people.</div>
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            <div><b>Option 1:</b> We can connect two 1000-person Zoom
              meetings together, where the second room is an overflow
              room.  The people in the overflow room can hear what is
              going on in the first room and can speak & use the
              chat with each other but they cannot speak & use the
              chat in the first room.  (The technical way this happens
              is that a second facilitator joins the overflow room from
              their Zoom app, then they join the first Zoom meeting
              through their Web browser Chrome/Firefox/Safari/etc and
              then they screenshare that into the overflow Zoom
              meeting).  The facilitator in the first room can be the
              voice for people in the overflow room and can speak into
              the first room what is happening in the chat of the
              overflow room (if they have the overflow meeting open in
              their browser.  You can have up to 1000 other people with
              this option.  We will add to our staff a skilled moderator
              for the overflow room so that people there feel engaged
              and not that they are passively watching and left out. 
              You can also add the livestream in option 2 (below) to
              this option so people can choose from the main Zoom,
              overflow Zoom, and the livestream.</div>
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            <div><b>Option 2:</b> We can livestream from the 1000-person
              Zoom meeting into QiqoChat so that anyone who joins after
              the meeting reaches capacity will be able to see the
              livestream from the same page where they are.  We have
              several options where everyone can be in the same chat
              (outside of Zoom) or we can use the regular chat inside of
              Zoom for the main room and have an overflow chat for
              everyone watching the livestream.  You can have up to 1500
              other people with this option.</div>
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            <div><b>Option 3:</b> Today we requested that Zoom increases
              the max capacity of their meetings to 2000 people.  They
              have never done that for any customer as far as we know,
              however we have several months and they may be able
              to make this happen.</div>
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            <div><b>Option 4:</b> We could use a Zoom webinar (and make
              each speaker a panelist for a minute) instead of a Zoom
              meeting but then people wouldn't see everyone in the
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