Hey Adriana, It was my thought that offering a fee might facilitate someone being present in the room, and that¹s a great thing. So it¹s good to know that it has worked for others although I doubt we will be paying for any flights but I suppose it¹s possible!
Also a good point, that if we are charging for participation, free attendance is a bonus :-) Many thanks, very useful. Jen x Jenifer Toksvig www.acompletelossforwords.com The Copenhagen Interpretation www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk From: Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring <adri...@diazberrio.com> List-Post: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date: Thursday, 19 February 2015 11:52 To: Jenifer Toksvig <ne...@acompletelossforwords.com>, World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] OST and paying attendance fees Hi Jenifer: I don't know if this experience can help you in some way. I facilitated an OS event in an University. The objective was to open the space to reflect on how this master program could improve in many ways. One ot them was how this university in Mexico could get more international contacts and visibility. So the coordinator of this master program invited a professor from an other university that is doing better in that topic: international exchanges with other universities. Because this other university is far they payed the travel expenses to the professor that was invited. His participation was very inspiring and useful and he liked also his first experience in OS. I think that having this special participant was a very good decision in this cae because they wanted to learn many things from him and he had a very good attitude. I facilitated an other open space where some people that were from other work places came to a group that was formed fro people that worked together in the same topic. They where not payed but not charged to participate, they propose very good subjects and helped this group to have new perspectives it was also useful and interesting to mix people from diferent places. Adriana Diaz Berrio 2015-02-18 15:16 GMT-06:00 Jenifer Toksvig via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>: > Dear all, > > What are your thoughts on paying fees to attract high-profile attendees to an > open space event? > > Has anyone done it? > > Is there an impact on that person¹s ability to engage with open space once > they¹re in the room? > > Is there an impact on the ability of non-paid attendees, if they know that > some have been paid a fee to be in the room? Does it make a difference if the > person who was paid a fee is high-profile within that community? > > I think I will have some funding that is supposed to pay for masterclasses on > a course I¹ll be teaching this fall. > > I¹d prefer not to mark out a select few as masters¹, but instead offer a > broad invitation to all who are experienced in the field, and hold regular > open space events that they could attend alongside the students. > > Offering a fee to be in the room seems at odds with open space to me, but on > the other hand, I do want to put the students in contact with those who have > experience and could mentor, or act as elders, or just be momentary guides or > sounding boards. > > Open space seems perfect to me as a way to let the students and the guests > decide how they want to interact, but I do need to get people into the room in > the first place. > > Thoughts on fee-paying as a way to do that? > > Many thanks :-) > > Jen x > > Jenifer Toksvig > www.acompletelossforwords.com <http://www.acompletelossforwords.com> > > The Copenhagen Interpretation > www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk > <http://www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk> > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > -- Dra. Adriana Díaz-Berrio CRHA 438 338 1654 (Montreal, Canadá) (52) 442 212 63 92 (Querétaro fijo) (52) 55 13 28 19 12 (México DF) www.diazberrio.com <http://www.diazberrio.com>
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