Martin, I smile when I read your text - I can almost feel your irritation over comparing OST with Barcamp :-) Thank you all who had answered - I now think that I will not ever say that it’s like OST, but that they had borrowed a few thing but got them backwards…(oops) :o) Eva
Bästa hälsningar Eva P Svensson EPS Human Invest AB Co owner Genuine Contact Group Inc Medlem i Beyond Performance Group "Verksamhetsutveckling genom människor skapar långsiktigt välmående företag och organisationer" Anåsbergsvägen 22, 439 34 ONSALA Besöksadress; Norra Allégatan 8, Göteborg Tfn: 0300-615 05, Mobil; 0706- 89 85 50 www.epshumaninvest.se <http://www.epshumaninvest.se/> Skype: eva.p.svensson Facebook sida: EPS Human Invest AB twitter:@EvaPSvensson "Jag kan inte lära dig något. Allt jag kan göra är att ställa frågor till dig, och låta dig själv finna svaren." Sokrates > 23 aug. 2016 kl. 11:42 skrev Martin Roell via OSList > <[email protected]>: > > Eva P Svensson via OSList wrote: >> Dear friends, >> Today I heard a woman talking about setting up a meeting using BarCamp as a >> method. I asked her to explain to me what it was and when she did that I had >> a hard time finding the differences between that and Open Space. One thing >> was that, as she explained it, the time slots were 45 minutes then 15 >> minutes pause then new 45 minutes and so on. Otherwise it seemed more or >> less like copy and paste from Open Space. Anyone who knows more about it? >> :o) > > I have attended a good number of Barcamps and OST meetings, and I > believe I even vented my frustration about BarCamps on this list before. :) > > To make a long story short, a few points of how BarCamps are different. > (This may be just my limited sample of Barcamps held in Germany in the > last 4 years.) > > * No circle at the beginning > * A ritual "say your name and your three #tags" instead before things > start (stopping the flow, boring the hell out of everyone, etc etc) > * When announcing a session, one asks for a raise of hands to gauge > interest. > * The "Facilitator" then allocates you a room ("thank you for announcing > your session so cutely. Here's a room for you.") > * and sometimes STICKS THE PAPER INTO THE SCHEDULE FOR YOU (you don't > get to choose the room for yourself: they do it for you!) > * Facilitators generally make looong remarks about BARCAMP before things > start and ask for a raise of hands, how many people have attended > BARCAMPS before, and how many (more is better) > * Facilitators inform people that BARCAMP is AMAAAAZING because: YOU GET > TO PARTICPATE! WOW!!1 They make the event more amazing by talking about > how amazing it will be (preventing anyone from getting to work). > * Much of the butterfly conversation is about BARCAMP and how AMAZING it is. > * There is usually no issue, but a "theme" for the event; what gets > posted are not "issues" but "sessions". (In the Barcamps I attended, not > a single session was posted that had a question mark in it.) > * "Sessions" are often teaching, delivered by extroverts > > One a more serious note: > Barcamp differs from OST culturally, in the sense that it is often used > for what I'd call "participatory teaching / knowledge sharing events": > In Germany, they seem to become popular with companies now, as a way to > save education budgets ("our staff can now share knowledge with > eachother! Using BARCAMP!! ITS CHEAPER THAN SEMINARS!!!!"), whereas OST > functions... hm, better? more naturally? - as a problem solving... > thing. Or so. > > Or, very simply and more personal: Everytime I hear someone say > something along "Barcamp is not so different from Open Space, is it?" I > get quite mad, because I have often seen amazing things happen in Open > Space events, and never seen anything amazing happen in BarCamps. > > YMMV. > > Martin > > -- > Martin Röll, Görlitzer Str. 25, 01099 Dresden, Germany > +49 178 4984743, @martinroell, http://www.roell.net > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
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