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=== The rules of Interaction<br/> ===
The whole point of the unconference is that you interact with the people and topics to whom/which you can add value and learn from. And this can change throughout the unconference, so a conversation you were initially drawn to may turn into one that no longer interest you. If you were participating of a traditional conference, you would be polite and stay --maybe zoning out or checking your email on your phone as the speaker/panel present. In an unconference, you would do exactly the opposite and use the '''''Rule of the Two Feet''''', which states that "if at any point you are no longer learning or adding value to a conversation, you take your two feet and go somewhere else." Importantly, you do NOT apologize to the group and come up with an excuse to leave. You just leave.
When you leave a conversation, you refer back to the agenda that was built during the kickoff (in these days everyone probably took a cell phone photo of it,) and go to a new location. As you move in search of a new conversation, you can operate in two ways:
*as a '''butterfly''', walking about and unobtrusively listen to different conversations; or,
*as a '''bumblebee''', who jumps into a conversation right away and points at connections and data gathered in other conversations (in other words, crosspollinating conversations.)
As a result of this organic way of moving in and out of conversations, some of the groups might dwindle down to 2 people, dissipate completely, or break out into different groups, while others might grow in participants.
=== The role of the facilitator(s) ===