Crowdsourcing, unconferencing, foocamp -- ???

[Harrison Owen]

Got this note from a nice fellow in Germany. Seems he want a little info.
What should I tell him?

Harrison

-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Kuhn [mailto:johannes-kuhn at gmx.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:08 PM
To: hhowen at verizon.net
Subject: request for an interview / NewAssignment

Dear Harrison,
my name is Johannes, I am a journalist from Germany also participating in
NewAssignment.net, an open source journalism-project. 
If you have not heard about the project, you can read a short outline here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/business/media/19carr.html

Of course I can only invite you to check the page of the first project,
which will be running in association with wired.com - and maybe participate
yourself:

http://zero.newassignment.net

But actually I am writing you because I am covering (Assignment Zero is
about "crowdsourcing") the topic of unconferences. As you participated in
the "Third Annual International Symposium on Organization Transformation" in
1985 and are associated with the Open Space movement, which had a concept
that is pretty similar to unconferences, I would like to ask you to talk
about your experiences. 

Why do you think unconferences are so popular now - is it just a new label
or are they really different from the thing you did in 1985?
How did your unconferences in the 80s develop over the time?
How was the atmosphere as far as conflict-solving and inspiration was
concerned? What great ideas came out of the conferences?
In which way was the goal of bringing out a joined paper, treaty, whatever
(I hope my information are correct about it) out of it difficult to fulfill?
Do you think it is acknowledged enough that Open Space Technology was the
forefather of the unconference, not FooCamp?
What do you think the future will bring for this concept - will it influence
business-sessions for example?

If you like we could also phone or skype. It will be definitely interesting
to hear from you!
Thank you very much,

                  Johannes
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