Artur Silva makes interesting suggestions on the OSLIST for the next WOSONOS events, in order to use the Communication and Information Technologies to have more participated and productive meetings. WOSONOS 2012 will take place in London. Sure it helps!
While I wait for the fully report Juan Luis has offered I have been following the WOSonOS in Chile, from 3 sources:
(1) The marvelous messages that Suzanne Daigle is sending regularly about what happens in Chile;(2) The very synthetic messages from Pablo at the "WOSonOS" group at the NING site (http://openspaceworld.ning.com/group/wosonoschile);
[I am not following Twitter, as I don't like it...]
The streaming is interesting in many ways. I have "made time" to see the opening session and the morning (after my lunch in Lisbon...) and evening news of the second day (after my dinner). In the opening, one could see everything but hear nothing. After that, the position of the (fixed) camera has changed (thanks, Pablo) and, from time to time, I was able to understand small parts of some interventions...
It is interesting to see people moving around without hearing almost anything as in mute films or in bird watching - one can see the "dance" and that's it! From this limited point of view, I concluded that the dance was marvelous in the opening (made by Juan Luis and Karen) and not very interesting in the "Mexican Ola-like - but with shouting" (Ola meaning wave) in the beginning of the second day, and one could hear some of the interventions in the evening news.
One conclusion that I took is that people present in the event must be informed that the streaming is being done and that to be heard far from the location they must speak with the mouth close to the micro (and don't use bells near the micro...).
But a more general conclusions that I took is that if one plans to do a "Worldwide OSonOS" (and not only a "regional WOSonOS with some people from other regions" - a bunch from the USA, one from Asia and no one from Europe, if I understood well), close attention must be putted in the way to facilitate worldwide dissemination and even participation.
Please don't see my remarks and suggestions bellow as any criticism to the Chilean Host team, which is making a very good job, as I can understand from Suzanne's messages, but as suggestions for the London Host Team and for other future WOSonOS organizers.
First: WOSonOS must not be considered in the future only as a gathering of the people that are able to come to the event location, but as an event that takes place worldwide, based on a specific location, but not restricted to it. The new IT possibilities must be fully used to assure worldwide participation.Second: there must be used a fixed camera and a mobile one, and have someone monitoring what the world is seeing and hearing (or not) at every time. Having conversation in front of the camera must not be done.Third: Reports of break out session must be made directly in a wiki, with instructions to the viewers that they can't edit, but they can add comments to the discussion (as it was done when the WOSonOS took place in Denmark some years ago). This can easily be done from free wiki site providers.Fourth: a reporter must be assigned to make written and/or graphic reports to be displayed daily in the same wiki, or in a linked blog – with photos and videos (from the streaming) also available for the ones that can´t connect synchronously.
Due to the special characteristics of the UK group that is inviting the 2012 WOSonOS, I think that all this suggestions will be easily done by them - if they accept the concept...
With care,
Artur
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