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1Open town meeting — Open town meeting, Huntington, Vermont An open town meeting is a form of town meeting in which all registered voters of a town may vote (as opposed to having elected town councilmen). This form of government is typical of smaller municipalities… …
2Open-space meeting — The open space meeting or open space meeting is a generic term describing a wide variety of different styles of meeting in which participants define the agenda with a relatively rigorous process, and may adjust it as the meeting proceeds. A large …
3open air meeting — Открытого воздуха собрания …
4Open-space technology — (OST) is an approach for hosting meetings, conferences, corporate style retreats, and community summit events, focused on a specific and important purpose or task but beginning without any formal agenda, beyond the overall purpose or theme.… …
5Open space — may refer to: In urban planning and conservation ethics Landscape, areas of land without human built structures Open space reserve, areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside Urban open space, urban areas… …
6open to — [phrasal verb] 1 open (something) to (someone or something) : to allow (a particular group of people) to enter, use, or participate in (something) He opens his home to anyone who needs a place to stay. This year, we ve opened the contest to all… …
7Meeting system — A meeting system is any systemic means of improving meetings, workshops or conferences. They are particularly important in consensus decision making and deliberative democracy, but they have always been recognized as important to judicial… …
8meeting — / mi:tɪŋ/ noun an event at which a group of people come together in order to discuss matters of common interest to them ♦ to hold a meeting to organise a meeting of a group of people ● The meeting will be held in the committee room. ♦ to open a… …
9Open Space Technology — (OST) offers a method to run meetings of groups of any size. ( Technology in this case means tool a process; a method.) OST represents a self organising process; participants construct the agenda and schedule during the meeting itself.… …
10Open adoption — is an adoption in which the biological mother or parents and adoptive family know the identity of each other. In open adoption, the parental rights of biological parents are terminated, as they are in closed adoptions and the adoptive parents… …
