On 5 September 2010 13:20, Annamarie Pluhar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > DIana's posting of how the Agile community is embracing OS reminds me to ask > this community about "unconferences." I've not seen a discussion of them > but maybe there was one predating my joining of the list. > I've been to one "unconference" and was told about another by a colleague > who understands OS. Neither had the careful opening that I think is the core > of making OS work. I have had people say "Oh I've been to an Open Space > meeting" and when I probed, discovered that it was an "unconference" not > OS. > Have other encountered this? And is this a problem for OS? >
That's one of the things we were exploring with Facilitation Camp and in a sense was part of the inspiration for it, the gap between OST and Barcamp-style unconferences. In fact, on day one of Facilitation Camp, there was a session on Open Space vs Barcamp where the distinctions between the two were examined. -- Regards, Mamading Ceesay Social and Technological Innovation in the Global Public Interest London Creative Labs: http://londoncreativelabs.com Follow us on Facebook/Twitter and/or follow me on Twitter to find out more: http://facebook.com/LondonCreativeLabs http://twitter.com/LonCreativeLabs http://twitter.com/evangineer * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
