Evaluating OpenSpace

[Eric Graig]

I have been asked to draft a proposal for evaluating an OpenSpace to be held
in the fall.  The purpose of the event is to bubble up ideas that will
re-invigorate a cultural/identity/interest group community.  Michael Herman
was kind enough to point me towards some pages on his GlobalChicago site
which were great at getting my creative juices flowing but I was hoping to
find some actual evaluations to review.  I am an evaluation consultant by
trade and it became clear to me that the standard kind of post-conference or
post-training evaluation wouldn't serve much purpose for an Open Space.  In
addition, since this OS is planned as a one time event, there is not much
point (from the organizers point of view), in asking too many process
improvement questions.
 
Our budget will not allow much in the way of follow-up interviews so we are
fairly limited to asking survey type questions although both closed and
open-ended questions are possible.  Mostly I am interested in hearing about
what others have done and any thoughts or resources would be greatly
appreciated.
 
Eric
 
Eric Graig, Ph.D.
Managing Director
PolyMath Research, LLC
New York, NY
 
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