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<p>[QUOTE="Haley, post: 161661, member: 72"]</p><p>I like the gene pool mixing idea.</p><p></p><p>No matter what the best conversations happen during self selected small group break outs, over drinks the night before the 'DO' or at dinner afterwards, or breakfast the next day. Not always with old friends either. The wine hour at Firesky helped facilitate this, it served as a great 'mixer' where people that didn't already know each other could chat for a few minutes or introductions could be made.</p><p></p><p>ETA: self selected might be key as it is where the comfort about what or how much you say comes from. This is hard to replicate, but I gather is sort of the goal.</p><p></p><p>I like the idea of getting out of confrence rooms, but I think that staying somewhere as a group adds a lot of value as it facilitates the breakfasts and dinners and wine hours where the best conversations happen. </p><p></p><p>ETA: I think without a declared place to sleep (need not be a hotel) you will get people that already know each other coordinating plans, and this would offer less gene-pool mixing.</p><p></p><p>I might be in the minority, but I also like like talking to people who are very new to this whole world. Nothing cements understanding of anything as well as teaching it to someone else.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Haley, post: 161661, member: 72"] I like the gene pool mixing idea. No matter what the best conversations happen during self selected small group break outs, over drinks the night before the 'DO' or at dinner afterwards, or breakfast the next day. Not always with old friends either. The wine hour at Firesky helped facilitate this, it served as a great 'mixer' where people that didn't already know each other could chat for a few minutes or introductions could be made. ETA: self selected might be key as it is where the comfort about what or how much you say comes from. This is hard to replicate, but I gather is sort of the goal. I like the idea of getting out of confrence rooms, but I think that staying somewhere as a group adds a lot of value as it facilitates the breakfasts and dinners and wine hours where the best conversations happen. ETA: I think without a declared place to sleep (need not be a hotel) you will get people that already know each other coordinating plans, and this would offer less gene-pool mixing. I might be in the minority, but I also like like talking to people who are very new to this whole world. Nothing cements understanding of anything as well as teaching it to someone else. [/QUOTE]
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