<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Channeling my inner Harrison here…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just Open Space. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ne;sm (not enough; say more):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A little coaching with them will go a long way. They seem to think that if they change up the process every year it will be interesting for people. That is a fundamental error. What is interesting for people is not the process that gets used but the ability to immediately connect with peers and colleagues to learn together and initiate strategic work. If the process is the star of the show, then “you’re doing it wrong.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So ask your client why they are even having this gathering and what’s it for. Unless the purpose of the gathering is “to experience a Bar Camp” then just open space (or indeed deploy whatever group process will serve the need) and let the participants get on with their strategic work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 16, 2015, at 8:31 AM, Barry Owen via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I (painfully) co-host a BarCamp every year for REALTORS - Themed "Technology"<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's a "movement" around the country for techie REALTOR "groupies"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Each one has been less "Open" than the one before as the organizers are slipping into inviting "Experts" to "Teach"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That's a hazard of BarCamp . . . Feels disingenuous to me - Billed as an "Open Format" where at the beginning the participants can submit a piece of paper with "Things they want to learn" and "Things they are willing to Teach (or lead a session)" . . . Yet the organizers set the calendar.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Often @ 1/3 of the schedule is full before the first participant walks through the door.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is NOT OST!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's OK to do it as long as it's called what it is and not OST</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and certainly is much more work for the organizers than OST would be.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And "they" get to keep the "Power" over the agenda.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My 2 cents <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><strong class=""><u class="">Barry Owen</u></strong><br class=""><b class=""><i class="">Real Estate Strategist</i></b></div><div style="font-size:13px" class="">Founder/Principal Broker<br class=""></div><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><strong class=""><font face="arial black,sans-serif" class="">Pareto Realty, LLC </font></strong><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/audio.php?file=bixpar02&word=Pareto&text=%5Cp%C9%99-%3CSPAN%20class%3Dunicode%3E%CB%88%3C%2FSPAN%3Er%C4%81-(%3CSPAN%20class%3Dunicode%3E%CB%8C%3C%2FSPAN%3E)t%C5%8D%5C" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank" class="">\pə-<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans Unicode" class="">ˈ</font>rā-(<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans Unicode" class="">ˌ</font>)tō\</a></div><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><b class="">The Vital Few</b></div><div style="font-size:13px" class="">102 Woodmont Blvd Suite 242</div><div style="font-size:13px" class="">Nashville, TN 37205 </div><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><a value="+16155022080" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" class="">Office: 615-502-2080</a></div><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><span style="font-size:13px" class="">Connect: </span><strong style="font-size:13px" class=""><a value="+16155682123" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" class="">615-568-2123</a></strong></div><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/barryowen" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank" class="">Twitter</a><span style="font-size:13px" class="">, </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/barryo06" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank" class="">Facebook</a><span style="font-size:13px" class="">, </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15553654&trk=tab_pro" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank" class="">Linkedin</a></div><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><a href="http://whyjoinparetorealty.com/" target="_blank" class="">WhyJoinParetoRealty.com</a></div><div style="font-size:13px" class=""><a href="http://paretorealty.com/" target="_blank" class="">ParetoRealty.com</a></div><div style="font-size:12.7272720336914px" class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class=""><a href="http://barryowensblog.com/" target="_blank" class="">BarryOwensBlog.com</a></font></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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"Lean Coffee" is yet-another derivative of Open Space. It's simple,
fun, and useful- like OST itself. <br class="">
<br class="">
Here is the origin story: <br class="">
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<a href="http://www.leancoffee.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.leancoffee.org</a><br class="">
Lean Coffee started in Seattle in 2009. Jim Benson and Jeremy
Lightsmith wanted to start a group that would discuss Lean
techniques in knowledge work – but didn’t want to start a whole new
cumbersome organization with steering committees, speakers, and
such. They wanted a group that did not rely on anything other than
people showing up and wanting to learn or create.<br class=""><p class=""><br class="">
Apparently, (almost) everybody believes Lean Coffee is in fact a
stripped-down "light" version of OST for smaller groups:<br class="">
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=www.leancoffee.org+open+space&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" target="_blank" class="">https://www.google.com/search?q=www.leancoffee.org+open+space&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8</a><br class="">
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Daniel <br class="">
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<div class="">On 9/16/15 9:40 AM, Daniel Mezick via
OSList wrote:<br class="">
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Bar Camp history does not support the idea that BarCamp precedes
OST development:<br class="">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp#History" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp#History</a><br class="">
The first BarCamp was held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California" target="_blank" class="">Palo Alto, California</a>, from
August 19–21, 2005<br class="">
<br class="">
So interesting also, that the name derives (indirectly) from
"foobar"...ha<br class="">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp#History" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp#History</a><br class="">
The name <i class="">BarCamp</i> is a playful allusion to the event's
origins, with reference to the programmer slang term, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar" title="Foobar" target="_blank" class="">foobar</a>:
BarCamp arose as an open-to-the-public alternative to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp" title="Foo Camp" target="_blank" class="">Foo
Camp</a>, which is an annual invitation-only participant-driven
conference hosted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O%27Reilly" title="Tim
O'Reilly" target="_blank" class="">Tim O'Reilly</a>.<br class="">
<br class="">
"Foo camp" which preceded Bar Camp also came much later than OST:<br class="">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp</a><br class="">
The first FOO Camp was held in August, 2003, and had approximately
200 attendees.<sup class=""><br class="">
</sup><br class="">
Daniel <br class="">
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<div class="">On 9/16/15 4:53 AM, Martin Roell via
OSList wrote:<br class="">
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<pre class="">Hey Arno,
Arno Baltin via OSList wrote:
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<pre class="">I have been assisting a group of professionals at organising their
annual meetings for couple of years. These have been unconferences in
different forms - Open Space, World Cafe, ... This time they chosed Bar
Camp.
I have no experience with that. Reading through some materials, appears
it is more like a technically well supported Open Space which is a
preference of IT people and a predecessor of OS.
I would appreciate any hints on how to facilitate a Bar Camp.
It will be a 2 day meeting of (maximum) 100 participants.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre class="">Barcamp is like a badly done OpenSpace with some constraints that make
it harder to get work done.
So _basically_, if you just open space, like you normally would, but
calling the whole thing "BarCamp" (and saying the word "BarCamp" a lot,
Barcamping-People seem to like that), all will be well. (Or, in your
context, simply drop that, open space, and let people get to work.)
(Barcamps have a tendency for a "facilitator" to "help" people post
"sessions" to the marketplace. They also have a ritual where after a
person announces a "session" (it's always a "session", never an
"issue"), the "facilitator" asks the "participants" for a show of
interest ("raise your hand if you are interested in attemding this
session") so that they can then "plan" better (many hands: you get a big
room assigned). There is no circle at the beginning, and none at the
end. A lot of "teaching" takes places - extroverted people "giving"
sessions to the less extroverted one, much less walking-around, less
spontaneity. If "teaching" is the goal, they actually work decently.)
You'll probably get some slack from hardcore barcampers if you don't do
all of that; and you'll step on people's toes for not following other
barcamp-rituals, but I'd still go for it in the context you described.
Check in with your sponsor why they want "BarCamp" - what does that mean
for them, what's the important thing in that for them.
Best,
Martin
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