Open Space being badly defined

[Robyn Stratton-Berkessel]

Isn't technology defined as the application of knowledge?  OST fits.   
What better way than a technology driven by active, engaged  
participation - albeit very complex.  Throughout our time on this  
planet, haven't we been using technologies to help us shape our  
destinies, sometime a wisely and sometime not?

Regards to all.

Robyn Stratton-Berkessel
www.positivematrix.com
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On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:

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. J

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&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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