[OSList] What's the difference between BarCamp and OST?

Eva P Svensson via OSList oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Tue Aug 23 12:51:15 PDT 2016


Martin,
I smile when I read your text - I can almost feel your irritation over comparing OST with Barcamp :-)
Thank you all who had answered - I now think that I will not ever say that it’s like OST, but that they had borrowed a few thing but got them backwards…(oops)
:o)
Eva

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> 23 aug. 2016 kl. 11:42 skrev Martin Roell via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>:
> 
> Eva P Svensson via OSList wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>> Today I heard a woman talking about setting up a meeting using BarCamp as a method. I asked her to explain to me what it was and when she did that I had a hard time finding the differences between that and Open Space. One thing was that, as she explained it, the time slots were 45 minutes then 15 minutes pause then new 45 minutes and so on. Otherwise it seemed more or less like copy and paste from Open Space. Anyone who knows more about it?
>> :o)
> 
> I have attended a good number of Barcamps and OST meetings, and I
> believe I even vented my frustration about BarCamps on this list before. :)
> 
> To make a long story short, a few points of how BarCamps are different.
> (This may be just my limited sample of Barcamps held in Germany in the
> last 4 years.)
> 
> * No circle at the beginning
> * A ritual "say your name and your three #tags" instead before things
> start (stopping the flow, boring the hell out of everyone, etc etc)
> * When announcing a session, one asks for a raise of hands to gauge
> interest.
> * The "Facilitator" then allocates you a room ("thank you for announcing
> your session so cutely. Here's a room for you.")
> * and sometimes STICKS THE PAPER INTO THE SCHEDULE FOR YOU (you don't
> get to choose the room for yourself: they do it for you!)
> * Facilitators generally make looong remarks about BARCAMP before things
> start and ask for a raise of hands, how many people have attended
> BARCAMPS before, and how many (more is better)
> * Facilitators inform people that BARCAMP is AMAAAAZING because: YOU GET
> TO PARTICPATE! WOW!!1 They make the event more amazing by talking about
> how amazing it will be (preventing anyone from getting to work).
> * Much of the butterfly conversation is about BARCAMP and how AMAZING it is.
> * There is usually no issue, but a "theme" for the event; what gets
> posted are not "issues" but "sessions". (In the Barcamps I attended, not
> a single session was posted that had a question mark in it.)
> * "Sessions" are often teaching, delivered by extroverts
> 
> One a more serious note:
> Barcamp differs from OST culturally, in the sense that it is often used
> for what I'd call "participatory teaching / knowledge sharing events":
> In Germany, they seem to become popular with companies now, as a way to
> save education budgets ("our staff can now share knowledge with
> eachother! Using BARCAMP!! ITS CHEAPER THAN SEMINARS!!!!"), whereas OST
> functions... hm, better? more naturally? - as a problem solving...
> thing. Or so.
> 
> Or, very simply and more personal: Everytime I hear someone say
> something along "Barcamp is not so different from Open Space, is it?" I
> get quite mad, because I have often seen amazing things happen in Open
> Space events, and never seen anything amazing happen in BarCamps.
> 
> YMMV.
> 
> Martin
> 
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