Open Space being badly defined

[Harrison Owen]

Kaliya - I can't speak for "Open Space Meeting" - But when it comes to
"Technology" - that started out as a joke. How could any body call OST a
"technology"? But I kind of got stuck with it in India. In 1989 we did a
wonderful Open Space in Goa around organizational learning. The press picked
it up and suddenly there is was in inch high headlines across the Mumbai
Papers. Then of course there are the titles of my several books in multiple
languages. I guess you can call it anything you want to, but it will always
be "technology" to me - until that wonderful day when we don't have to talk
about it any more. If it is any comfort, it actually does fit the broad
definition of technology - which has been around long before its current
attachment to computers and the like. :-)

 

Harrison

 

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Subject: Open Space being badly defined

 

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
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BarCamp&oldid=294721271#Structure
_and_participatory_process>
&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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