[OSList] Open Space undermined?

Thu Dec 1 23:08:04 PST 2016

I appreciate your take on this Birgitt. It seems good news that this topic
is getting attention. And the abstract did affirm that it made some impact
in the desired direction.

It would be interesting to see the nature of the assessment and how it was
structured. Given that Wikipedia says the source of unconferences is OST,
it is disconcerting that OST is *not* referenced in the abstract. And it is
also disconcertificate the lack of awareness that unconferences and camps
have liberating structures.

Thank you Andi for posting. I too am interested in the source. I found this
event poster for her talk this past May.

http://www.mba.ucy.ac.cy/images/media/file/Dr_%20Emma%20Bell%20from%20Keely%20University.pdf

Professor Bell and her research sounds very interesting from her bio on the
poster!

Harold Shinsato

@hajush http://shinsato.com
Sent from a phone with tiny screen.

On Dec 1, 2016 5:01 PM, "Birgitt Williams via OSList" <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> I actually thought this was good news. The fact that even an unconference
> ie: OS rather than OST creates the conditions for more equal
> participation...at least during the meeting and maybe with some longer term
> impact. I tend towards optimism...maybe I am reading more into this than is
> there.
>
> Birgitt
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:16 PM HENRI LIPMANOWICZ <henrilip at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I am surprised that the author of this research considers that
>> unconferences are characterized by a “distinct lack of structure”!
>> OST has a very clear and precise structure; it may be minimal but it is
>> exquisitely minimal which is why it is so powerful and effective.
>> Reminds me of when I was a kid and my music teacher considered that jazz
>> was not “real music" 😀
>>
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>> On Dec 1, 2016, at 6:23 PM, Birgitt Williams via OSList <
>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andi,
>> source paper would be very much appreciated. Thank you for digging to
>> find it and for sharing this. I very much hope she cites OST particularly.
>> Warmly,
>> Birgitt
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:12 PM Andi Roberts via OSList <
>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>>
>> The following popped up on an email today at a University I work with and
>> I thought that the research might be of interest to this group. I am unable
>> to attend the session, due to prior work commitments, but will try and dig
>> up the source paper.
>>
>> Unstructured Meeting Organisation in Open Source Communities
>>
>> Professor Emma Bell, Professor of Management and Organisation Studies,
>> Keele University, will be presenting at the next DPO seminar on Wednesday,
>> 7 December, at 14:00, in Meeting Rooms 3 - 4 in the Michael Young Building.
>>
>> *Abstract:*
>>
>> In this paper we focus on the organisation of ‘unconferences’, an
>> umbrella term that refers to a range of off-site meeting formats where
>> there an explicit attempt to break down social hierarchies and develop
>> organic forms of organization (Burns and Stalker, 1961).  Also referred to
>> as ‘camps’, unconferences have no pre-set agenda, are designed to be
>> participant driven (Wolf et al., 2011), and are characterised by a
>> ‘distinct lack of structure’ (Boule, 2011: 17).  Drawing on a qualitative
>> study of unconferences aimed at managers and management consultants, we
>> assess the extent to which unconferencing enables the hierarchical power
>> relations that characterise conventional off-site meeting organisation to
>> be overcome (Bell and King, 2010; Ford and Harding, 2008).  We find that
>> unconferences go some way towards addressing interactional and performative
>> dynamics that contribute towards unequal participation and exclusion in
>> off-site meeting encounters. However, our analysis also highlights the
>> powerful behavioural norms and group dynamics associated with off-site
>> meetings which can result in these attempts at openness and sharing being
>> undermined.
>>
>>
>> Cheers, Andi Roberts
>>
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