<div dir="ltr">I (painfully) co-host a BarCamp every year for REALTORS - Themed "Technology"<div><br></div><div>It's a "movement" around the country for techie REALTOR "groupies"</div><div><br></div><div>Each one has been less "Open" than the one before as the organizers are slipping into inviting "Experts" to "Teach"</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Often @ 1/3 of the schedule is full before the first participant walks through the door.</div><div><br></div><div>This is NOT OST!</div><div><br></div><div>It's OK to do it as long as it's called what it is and not OST</div><div><br></div><div>and certainly is much more work for the organizers than OST would be.</div><div><br></div><div>And "they" get to keep the "Power" over the agenda.</div><div><br></div><div>My 2 cents <br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px"><strong><u>Barry Owen</u></strong><br><b><i>Real Estate Strategist</i></b></div><div style="font-size:13px">Founder/Principal Broker<br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><strong><font face="arial black,sans-serif">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">\pə-<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans Unicode">ˈ</font>rā-(<font size="3" face="Lucida Sans Unicode">ˌ</font>)tō\</a></div><div style="font-size:13px"><b>The Vital Few</b></div><div style="font-size:13px">102 Woodmont Blvd Suite 242</div><div style="font-size:13px">Nashville, TN 37205 </div><div style="font-size:13px"><a value="+16155022080" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">Office: 615-502-2080</a></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Connect: </span><strong style="font-size:13px"><a value="+16155682123" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">615-568-2123</a></strong></div><div style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/barryowen" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">Twitter</a><span style="font-size:13px">, </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/barryo06" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">Facebook</a><span style="font-size:13px">, </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">Linkedin</a></div><div style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://whyjoinparetorealty.com/" target="_blank">WhyJoinParetoRealty.com</a></div><div style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://paretorealty.com/" target="_blank">ParetoRealty.com</a></div><div style="font-size:12.7272720336914px"><b><font size="4"><a href="http://barryowensblog.com/" target="_blank">BarryOwensBlog.com</a></font></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><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>
<br>
Here is the origin story: <br>
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<a href="http://www.leancoffee.org" target="_blank">www.leancoffee.org</a><br>
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>
<p><br>
Apparently, (almost) everybody believes Lean Coffee is in fact a
stripped-down "light" version of OST for smaller groups:<br>
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=www.leancoffee.org+open+space&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=www.leancoffee.org+open+space&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8</a><br>
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Daniel <br>
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<div>On 9/16/15 9:40 AM, Daniel Mezick via
OSList wrote:<br>
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Bar Camp history does not support the idea that BarCamp precedes
OST development:<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp#History" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp#History</a><br>
The first BarCamp was held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California" target="_blank">Palo Alto, California</a>, from
August 19–21, 2005<br>
<br>
So interesting also, that the name derives (indirectly) from
"foobar"...ha<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp#History" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp#History</a><br>
The name <i>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">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">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">Tim O'Reilly</a>.<br>
<br>
"Foo camp" which preceded Bar Camp also came much later than OST:<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp</a><br>
The first FOO Camp was held in August, 2003, and had approximately
200 attendees.<sup><br>
</sup><br>
Daniel <br>
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<div>On 9/16/15 4:53 AM, Martin Roell via
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<pre>Hey Arno,
Arno Baltin via OSList wrote:
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<pre>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.
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<pre>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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