18. The method as recited in claim 17 wherein said meeting objective is decision making and said list of attributes includes vote count information.
17. A method for operating a freeform graphics system for supporting a meeting objective comprising the steps of: a) said system creating and displaying a plurality of icons representing meeting objects for supporting said meeting objective, each of said meeting objects being defined by a meeting object class, said meeting object class defining attributes capable of having computed values, a list of action rules, and layouts for defining information presented in the icons representing said meeting objects; b) said system detecting a user performing a user action on one of said plurality of icons, said user action identified in an action rule in said list of action rules of said meeting object class; c) said system performing an operation associated with said action rule; d) said system recomputing any attributes having computed values based on attribute values changed on performance of said operation associated with said action rule.