I got my start in Open Space via BarCamp.
I first heard about FooCamp, wished I could attend, and eventually found
out I could host my own BarCamp. Others in my state had heard about
them, and there was some support in my community to initiate one in
Missoula.
Then the 2007 JavaOne conference in San Francisco included a "BarCamp"
side track with Kaliya Hamlin facilitating. It was poorly attended
(about 16 people out of potentially 15,000+), but Kaliya invited me to
the "Real Thing", her Internet Identity Workshop a few days later not
too far away (Mountain View). It was a real Open Space, and it was there
that Kaliya introduced me to Lisa Heft. The following winter I took
Lisa's training.
But since people already recognized and supported the BarCamp "brand", I
just ran my BarCamp with true and blue Open Space. Opening and closing
circles, butterflies, bumblebees, surprises, and whenevers/whoevers. We
kept the BarCamp moniker for 6 years doing it each time as an Open
Space. Only the seventh year I was finally able to lop off the BarCamp
part. (And there was much rejoicing.)
Read the history of BarCamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference.
It comes from Open Space! The origin story was obscured in the past, but
now it's out in the open. Sarah Winge organized the first FooCamp for
O'Reilly based on her experience with OST, *AND WITH CONVERSATIONS WITH
HARRISON OWEN*.
However wayward are the children of Open Space - I'm grateful to BarCamp
(and FooCamp) for launching me into something that has totally inspired
and invigorated my professional and personal life. Thank you BarCamp!
May you eventually acknowledge and honor your heritage!
Harold
On 8/24/16 4:47 AM, Barry Owen via OSList wrote:
I could write a veritable book about my experiences with BarCamp here
in nashville, TN in the past 6 years.
It's pseudo self organization at best . . . There's a tip of the hat
to unconference at the beginning as folks arrive and are invited to
write down "Things they want to Learn" and "things they want to teach".
The "organizers" then fill the schedule while the participants mingle,
and the event starts (as aforementioned) with a very brief introduction.
Most sessions are "teaching" and not open dialog and many are
pre-loaded speakers who were specifically invited to come with all
expenses paid.
my understanding is that BarCamp was initially designed as a
"Technology Conference" for computer Geeks, so perhaps it 'works"
better with Geeks. Using it for other other purposes (Organizational
Development/transformation etc) is an unintended use of the original
format.
So - I think BarCamp serves the intended purpose well - and I believe
some misguided folks are attempting to plug a square hole with a round
peg thinking that it's interchangeable with OST
My 2 cents
This ain't Open Space!
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Amanda Bucklow via OSList
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I had never heard of BarCamp. I was smiling too as I read Martin’s
response. If anyone mentions it to me, I will just roll my eyes :-)
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On 23 Aug 2016, at 20:51, Eva P Svensson via OSList
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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
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23 aug. 2016 kl. 11:42 skrev Martin Roell via OSList
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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
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