Open Space being badly defined

[douglas germann]

Kaliya--

Thanks for demonstrating for the community how passion bounded by
responsibility works! You saw something, had passion for it, and took
responsibility by making the world better.

Thanks!

			:- Doug.

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 13:41 -0700, Kaliya * wrote:
> So, In case you are all wondering about the online world....while you
> were not looking some geeks decided to define things badly.
> 
> There is an entry about barcamps that claims they are an "open space"
> event 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BarCamp&oldid=294721271#Structure_and_participatory_process
> 
> (I already edited to make it better...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp#Structure_and_participatory_process
> 
> and then links to this entry for "open space meeting" 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_meeting
> 
> which was shocking to me - I actually think it should be deleted -
> which we could propose. 
> 
> Does anyone know where this "term" is coming from or where it is used?
> 
> 
> Does this community have a plan for online engagement around usage of
> the term and how it is not taken out of context and used poorly?
> 
> Has there been any conversation about changing the "name' to Open
> Space Methodology? (I personaly can't use the words "OST" cause I work
> in tech and well that creates confusion.  Open Space Method makes it
> clear it is a "particular way of facilitating" more then the word
> "technology" does at least in my mind...
> 
> -Kaliya
> 
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