Re: [OSList] "Parallel" Open Space at XP2014 Rome?

[Gray Miller]

I have to echo that. The problem, cynically speaking, is that people are lazy. Given a choice between "make your own" or "let us make it for you," the majority will go with the safe and "normal" agenda. Mind you, the few that choose the OS have an incredible time-but others see it as uncertainty, or work (because it is).

I have done a few OS before or after a "regular" con, and you still can't win-people will complain that it was either a waste of time or that it should have been the whole time. But I won't do a concurrent OS with a regular scheduled conference. It's just not worth it for me.

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:57 AM -0700, "Harrison Owen" <hho...@verizon.net> wrote:

Dan – Bearing some responsibility for The User’s Guide” I can say, without equivocation, that it ain’t a cook book. Not even close. But it did/does represent the experience of the time as filtered through my ears and eyeballs. That said, it must also be stated that our experience is continuing and changing (we are learning something) and my ears and eyeballs are anything but perfect.

 

So would I run parallel tracks? Probably not simply because every time I have tried the experience was less than the best. I thought. The Open Space part was sort of diffuse, and clearly lacked the punch so often experienced. And I thought the rest of the program (other tracks) suffered as well. People treated formal lectures/presentations like Open Space which was disconcerting, to say the least, for some of the presenters. Actually, I rather enjoyed what happened, but then a formal lecture/presentation has to be really, really good before it equals a regular Open Space in terms of impact, communication and Zip – My experience.  So for the benefit of the sponsor I always suggest that when you do Open Space – Do it. If you want something else – Do That. But don’t mix them up. Confusing, at least for me.

 

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From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Mezick
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Subject: [OSList] "Parallel" Open Space at XP2014 Rome?

 

Open Space includes a theme, and proceedings. It also asks that no other events be going on at the same time.

That’s why the XP2014 event in Rome gives me pause. Someone here mentioned that this event is offering a “parallel Open Space”. Wow. Is that right?

The last time I checked, the Open Space User’s Guide warned against doing this. It warns against running anything else while the Open Space event is going on. And that’s what makes me wonder about the so-called XP2014 “parallel Open Space” event.

 

To investigate you can examine this link, which shows the schedule:

http://www.xp2014.org/program/

 

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