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Issue: High Tech in Open Space: Is it useful to bring more High Tech into an Open Space conference, like mobile devices, software solutions, video walls...? Convenor: Dr. Christa Gescher Participants: Jessy Hsieh, Gabriella Ender, Gabriele Burkhardt Summary of the meeting: It seems that it does not matter if you use High Tech for an Open Space Conference or not, but it is nice to have it there. If the participants come from industries where High Tech is commonly used they might feel more familiar with the environment of the Open Space conference. Details: - Questions: Print the butterflies and bumblebeens in black and white instead of hand painting in colors for participants from the IT industry? And better have the 4 principles computer written instead of hand written? Using a veteran hard disk instead of a nice piece of wood as a talking stick? - It is good to be careful on one s own assumptions and about what other people might like or like not. - As a facilitator it is important to be able to speak the language of the participants, to adapt to them. A lot of information the faciliator can get in the pre-meetings. - The software Open Space Online Gabriella created bridges the gap between online and offline Open Space conferences. - Most important: To walk the circle with respect to the people and especially also the sponsor who had the courage to open the space. - The more the participants feel familiar with the environment the more they will open up. - A vision of an Open Space Conference: The participants have their own mobile devices like mobile phones or personal digital assistants (PDAs) with them. Connected to the Internet they write their notes of the ongoing conversation of their workshop directly into the mobile device, and people connected to the Internet can follow the ongoing conversation and take part directly, the same as the other participants of the Open Space Conference who are not taking part in the particular group can follow the discussion at the same time. Follow up: Online Comments: Being myself an IT veteran (since 1969, when some who are now commonly called veterans were little kids or were not even born) I have to say that I can hardly find any paragraph of this report that I agree with. Particularly, I strongly disagree with the ideia of using disks as talking sticks, black and white buterfflies, or computer written material as if the IT folks were unable to read handwritten messages (or for that metter books) or to appreciate something "in collours". I think that what is "nice to have" in an OST meeting is the "adequate IT" - not less, and not more. The ideia of having mobile phones is the room is horrible to me. In what concerns having PDA's it depends on the objective - to have them for the sake of having them seems useless, if not a diversion. The ideia that "The more the participants feel familiar with the environment the more they will open up" is not necesseraly true. In some cases it is the fact that the procedures are strange that allows for people to "open up". That is the reason why OST works better than many "more familiar" meeting methods. I also don't think that "OSonline bridges the gat bettwen online and onsite participants"; as it has been explained by Gabrila some time ago that is not even the purpose, but the one of connecting online participants only. Finally, I do agree that: (a) "It is good to be careful on one's own assumptions and about what other people might like or like not" (b) "As a facilitator it is important to be able to speak the language of the participants, to adapt to them" - and I think that OST participants, like the ones that meet in OSonOs?, don't normally use the "language" of calling themselves or the others with titles (like Dr.). ArturSilva |
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