Hello Ted,
In my experience, in cases where OS is one of the (paralel) activities
in a larger conference,
usually the starting point is that the OS schedule must adapt to the
"general" schedule.
Don't take this as a given, would be my suggestion. Over the years, I
have moved from assuming
that a framework was in place which was a given I could accept or not,
to deciding I joined a team,
then was part of a team that was committed to create as much synergy as
possible between various
activities.
First of all, while it is sort of convenient to be there at the start
of a "normal" presentation,
that is not necessary at all for the OS sessions. So why not have for
example 3 OS sessions
paralel to 2x 90+30 ?
Second, based on our experience last year, the WikiSym crowd is likely
to be rather
more flexible than most.
Thirdly, it is still some time until WikSym 2007 will happen. Why
speculate on possible solutions
if the schedule cannot be changed instead of changing the schedule ? I
would say your starting position
is much better than last year, when those you were talking to did not
really know what OS was.
Greetings from across the Big Pond,
Gerard Muller
Open Space Institute Denmark
Phone: (+45) 21269621 Skype: openspace1
Mail: [email protected]
On Dec 7, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Ted Ernst wrote:
I'm on the organizing committee for WikiSym 2007, a traditional
academic conference started in 2005, that Gerard Muller and I
facilitated OST for in 2006. On the committee email list we've been
talking about how to further integrate OST into the rest of the
conference. The subject of the schedule came up and it was said that
because we're co-located with OOPLSA (a huge traditional academic
conference), we're stuck with their 90 minute sessions with 30 minute
coffee breaks in between. So, of course I had to point out that if we
were using OST as written in the book, we wouldn't need to schedule
the breaks, as we'd have the coffee out all the time and people would
take care of themselves.
Someone wrote back to say that at agile conferences, they use a
schedule with coffee breaks in it and the OST works fine. He said
that: "turn the whole conference into a coffee break" isn't meant to
say that literally coffee has to be available all the time.
The next response was from Ward Cunningham, the Harrison Owen of the
wiki-world. He said that he can't believe how hard it is to get a cup
of coffee at these conferences. He says fantastic conversations are
happening and by the time they break up, the coffee has been removed!
I'll keep you posted on the WikiSym2007 coffee situation as
developments arise. :-)
peace,
ted
--
Humanize the Earth! http://tedernst.com
Open more space! http://www.openspaceworld.org
Need help doing something? http://chicagoconservationcorps.org/blog/
Housing Co-ops in Chicago: http://www.chicagocoop.net
skype: TedErnst
jabber: [email protected]
*
*
==========================================================
[email protected]
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of [email protected]:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
*
*
==========================================================
[email protected]
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of [email protected]:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
