As I happened to be the time keeper for the GA, I thought it could be a good idea to make something useful with the data I had written in my notebook. The duration limit for the interventions was 3 minutes. Around 12 people, from the aprox. 39 different who spoke, exceeded the 3 minutes limit.
You can also read the transcripts of the polemic GA: http://bit.ly/OBga120110
Update: the raw data used to make the graphic http://bit.ly/OBGA2012jan10duration
Note: After some feedback: I figured out that the classification by sex would be problem. I decided to go anyway assuming that difficulty-arbitrary

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How do you define “intervention” here? This is an interesting way to visualize GA meeting content. Thanks for posting!
Hi Sheetal, an “intervention” in this case, is the length of the speech of one person. Does it make sense to you?
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