[OSList] Missoula BarCamp 2012 - Open Space with Lightning Keynotes

[Harold Shinsato]

Dear OSList,

If any of you are in Montana this weekend, you'll receive a very 
friendly welcome at the premier Montana Open Space event - Missoula 
BarCamp. April 13-14. http://missoulabarcamp.org.

Inspired originally by O'Reilly's FooCamp and the spinoff BarCamp until 
Kaliya Hamlin educated me about Open Space Technology. I eventually 
learned OST was the pure lineage from which sprang BarCamp. So though we 
use the BarCamp title, I launched it straight from the OST manual back 
in 2008 after I took Lisa Heft's awesome training.

We're in our fifth year. It's a conversation between artists, techies, 
and people who want to make the world better (change agents).

Inspired by the awesome work Peggy Holman has done with the Journalism 
That Matters conferences - we start with warm up talks. We now call them 
"Lightning Keynotes" so we can attract bigger names with giving them the 
"bully pulpit" for a short time - and they usually stay and get involved 
in the Open Space as well. We've partnered with IgniteMissoula - so we 
also opened up for some community submitted 5 minute talks. I'm excited 
that OSList member and fellow JTM-er Sono Hashisaki will be one of those 
Lightning Keynotes.

This is our fifth year - and it's exciting to see it happening in a 
beautiful facility - the Native American Center - a gorgeous new 
building with a circular lobby that seems built for Open Space. The 
University of Montana president will kick us off. I'm very much excited 
- and deeply grateful to all the support I've received from this 
community over the years.

http://missoulabarcamp.org

     Blessings!
     Harold

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Harold Shinsato
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