the "Techie Community."

[Diana Larsen]

Hi Robyn,

I may have a partial answer for you. Some parts of the software  
development industry, particularly "Agile" communities of practice,  
have embraced OS for conference formats and some have brought it into  
their companies for collaborative, transparent planning & decision  
making. I know of at least four SW-IT conferences this year that were  
run all in Open Space (Recent Changes Camp, Agile Open in Benelux,  
CITCON in the UK, and Simple Design & Testing Conference) and I think  
there are more...in addition to traditional conferences with Open  
Space tracks or sections. We have a 2-day all Open Space conference  
coming up next January in Portland, Oregon.

I have also held space inside some companies for their IT/SW  
departments. These department had piloted the use of new SW  
methodologies and needed to look at the organizational systems issues  
that arose and to evaluate whether to continue and expand their  
efforts. Several months after the OS, my clients report initiatives  
going forward that arose during the OS. Because of client  
confidentiality I can't mention the company names, but they are out  
there.

Hope that helps.

Best,
Diana

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On Oct 22, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Robyn Williams wrote:

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> I’m interested in the reference to the "Techie  
> Community" (Harrison) and “other techie camps" (Michael).
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> I’m about to work with the Information Technology Service of a  
> University - can you say more about these experiences please?
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> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of  
> Harrison Owen
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> The approach to meeting is known as Open Space Technology, which I  
> originated some 20 years ago. Since then it has been used in excess  
> of 60,000 times in 120 countries around the world with groups  
> ranging in size from 5 to over 2000. Users have included major  
> global corporations, governments, NGOs, communities, and more  
> recently the "Techie Community." What happened in Mountain View is  
> the typical experience: diverse people energetically interact to  
> produce exciting and innovative solutions. This seems to happen  
> every time, and perhaps more remarkably, it seems to happen pretty  
> much all by itself. There is no pre-set agenda and little  
> facilitation. The people do it all themselves.
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