[OSList] Announcing The 23rd Annual Systems Thinking In Action Conference!

[Jeff Aitken]

Hi Sandy,

I recall that Heidi Nobantu Saul and Kaliya Hamlin collaborated on a
kind of spreadsheet comparing many aspects of a range of meeting
designs from Unconferences to Open Spaces and other similar practices.

It was brilliant and worth sharing in my opinion. Let's see if we can find it.

I'm not sure if either of them are on this list -- I'll add Heidi in the cc box.

Kaliya hosts www.unconference.net, which is a high quality site.

warmly

Jeff
San Francisco


On 8/6/13, Sandy Heierbacher <sandy at ncdd.org> wrote:
> Love that description of "truly open space," Peggy!   18 minutes of
> presentation followed by 42 minutes of Q&A and discussion, followed by 30
> minutes of action.  Very specific!  :)
>
> Anyway, this brought up a question I've been meaning to pose to the list.
> I've been wondering if anyone has prepared template text to share with
> people who are using the term "Open Space" in a way that stretches the
> meaning a bit, or organizing a BarCamp or Unconference... something to the
> tune of "Hey - it's great that you're organizing an open event.  Do you know
> about these tools up at www.__.org that help people organize Open Space
> events more seamlessly?  Here are some examples of the free tools you can
> access..."
>
> I'd love to see any template text that's being used to help improve the
> quality of open space style or OS-inspired events, both so I can have it at
> the ready and to learn from what you've created.  Within NCDD, we need to
> create these kinds of easy-to-adapt templates to help people improve the
> quality of public meetings.
>
> Sandy Heierbacher
> Director, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
> sandy at ncdd.org • www.ncdd.org • @ncdd & @heierbacher
>