Peg, I¹ve never done the conference-within-the-conference thing, but I bet there must be a way to make that work.
But I agree on the closing. That sounds like an awful mess waiting to spill all over. Listen to Harrison¹s Mommy. Ralph On 5/7/02 12:27 AM, "Harrison Owen" <owe...@mindspring.com> wrote: > At 09:02 AM 5/6/2002 -0700, you wrote: >> I'm doing an Open Space in a few weeks that has a few twists (don't they >> all?) and would appreciate your thoughts. >> >> The setting is a 4-day conference of Computer Professionals for Social >> Responsibility. The Open Space is on the last 2 days. The first twist is >> that the OST event isn't for the whole conference. It is a track of the >> conference on a particular topic (Building a Pattern Language of Living >> Communication). It won't be closed in any way; anyone can come and go. It >> does have it's own space and will run on it's own schedule. It's just that >> other conference sessions will be happening around it. >> >> First question -- has anyone done this? Any advice? > > I have. Advice: Don't do it. > >> The second twist is that the closing circle is envisioned as the conference >> closing. This means that it will include not just the people who have been >> in the OST event but everyone who attended the conference. Again, anyone >> have experience with something like this? > > No -- and I can't imagine how it would work. should be a great learning > moment. > > Doubtless my comments will be perceived as being less than helpful. but having > been there, done it (at least partially) and have fully resolved not to do it > again -- I could do nothing other than my Mommy always taught me. Call it like > it is. > > Harrison >
