The "Monday Morning Manager" column of the Canada wide paper the "Globe and Mail, "Report on Business", had a very interesting paragraph titled, Conferences: Learning to Self-Organize. I did not know that the author had even heard of Open Space Technology, but he wrote a small piece on how to be a better participant in OST meetings, because they are becoming more popular. I think he stole it from another consultant's blog (Scott Berkun) with a focus on IT "unconferences". But he did mention the "Open Space concept". The article encourages participants to put up "tough topics" to pick topics "you always wanted to talk about" and to not walk into a discussion with a "fixed position".
I think the work of Deb Hartman and others in bringing OST into the Agile and XP programming communities is getting some notice here in Toronto. It is great that OST is just assumed as a growing way to hold conferences and that learning how to participate better is being encouraged. Interesting. Larry Larry Peterson Associates in Transformation Toronto, ON, Canada 416.653.4829 [email protected] www.spiritedorg.com * * ========================================================== [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
