Wikis and Open Space

[Ted Ernst]

WikiSym has had Open Space every year since (Denmark, Montreal, Porto, and
this year Orlando where I wasn't able to make it at the last minute and who
stepped in? Ward Cunningham and others)

Recent Changes Camp was in Portland that first year, Portland and Montreal
(later in the year) the 2nd year, then San Francisco the 3rd year and back
to Portland the 4th year.  This year I'm hearing Montreal again.

I would echo Michael's mention of Kaliya Hamlin as one of the connectors.

Also, would be good to remember that many pieces of this story won't be told
here because we don't know about it, either downstream ripples, or
independent cross-currents.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Michael Herman
<michael at michaelherman.com>wrote:

> hello rut,
>
> here  is some of the link between wiki and open space...
>
> peggy holman told me about wiki, maybe as early as 1999 or 2000?  i went to
> see ward's wiki and portland pattern language and didn't understand any of
> it.  in fact, i walked around for a few days utterly baffled by this word
> "pattern" that i thought i remembered actually knowing and using, but now i
> had no idea what it meant anymore.
>
> then, the real connecting happened in 2001.  i facilitatated a big slice of
> the agile/xp universe (agile development, extreme programming) conference
> here in chicago.  they used a wiki to capture all the proceedings.  along
> the way, a participant from stuttgart, chris wega, coached me in how to set
> up a wiki, and asked lots of questions about facilitating open space.  i had
> a wiki up and running by the end of the conference.  six months later, i'd
> set them up at open spaceworld for all the english content, for artur's
> iberian language work, for the estonians, and some others.  we used a wiki
> for the proceedings of the 2002 osonos in marysville (australia) and i
> introduced wikis to my training groups in various places around the world,
> using it to capture some proceedings.  i also heard from chris that he'd
> gone home and the local/regional java users group/board had blown up and
> he'd jumped in and facilitated a larger open space meeting of the membership
> in that vacuum.  so that was one big trade.  i know i met diana larsen at
> that conference, as well.  and if she knew about ost before the conference,
> she knew more about it afterward, and that's when she started facilitating
> ost, i think.
>
> later, 2006, a number of us organized "recent changes camp" in portland.
> this was a downstream thing that flowed from a "giving conference" and two
> "omidyar member conferences" that we'd planned in 2004 and 2005.  the
> planning for recent changes camp was actually begun by ted ernst and some
> wiki folks, who'd been to our earlier conferences and so used the expansive
> dashboard of their mini-van as that posting wall for open space discussion
> topics, as they drove from portland to seattle to *san diego* to wikisym.
> at wiki sym, they opened a spontaneous space with a bulletin board wall for
> issues created in a hallway and with nametags that said "ask me about open
> space."  ted ernst was asked to facilitate more formal open space at two or
> more subsequent wikisyms, one of which he co-facilitated with gerard
> muller.
>
> when recent changes camp did happen, i facilitated that.  ward cunningham,
> wiki creator, was there, as were a number of other very wiki people.  the
> point of the event was, after the wikisym guerrilla open space effort, to do
> a proper 3-day open space, with wiki folks, other tech folks and a bunch of
> community organizer/facilitator types, to make a lot of connecting and
> learning, but also so the techies could get a really good, clean look at
> ost.  many were intrigued, given barcamp history, but hadn't seen a good
> clean ost event.  so they ran the test, it worked perfectly.  the whole
> thing was planned, documented, and sustained for several rounds, maybe still
> echoing, in a series of wiki sites.  kaliya hamlin was among the more
> technical folks present for that first recent changes camp, so that was
> another big connecting between the two stories.
>
> there's no doubt more to the story than this, but these are likely some of
> the big chunks.
>
> m
>
>
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> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:18 AM, rut jesus <rut.jesus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Anne Goldenberg and I have recently proposed to the conference WikiWars
>> (to be held in Bangalore, January 2010) an installation (consisting of a
>> giant cube with concepts to be written, connected, discussed) that is a
>> mixture of Open Space, Glass Plate Game and Mind Maps.
>>
>> So, we have a question to the list that would really inform our work:
>>
>> - The link between Open Space and Wikis seems to be there. Who were the
>> people who did it? Has anyone written about it?
>>
>> We were also interested in finding out what academic/research work has
>> been done on Open Space, where to find it, what were the results/conclusions
>> - but this was answered in a post some days ago. thank you.
>>
>> best wishes,
>> Rut
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