Diana Larsen (facilitator) points us to Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, one of the hosts of Agile Open Northwest, who had never (knowingly) participated in an OST event.
Rebecca, who hosted entirely on faith and with a few nervous moments about whether it would really work, wrote a blog post about her take on the event.
A great look at how newcomers experience open space, complete with Green Eggs and Ham (photo). This session? Overcoming Resistance!
They Do Things Differently There was the theme of a day for Customers, Testers and Developers Learning Each Others’ Languages — A French-English Open Space forum …hosted by the XP (eXtreme Programming) Day Montreal 2006 conference.
Deborah Hartmann has posted the invitation, photos of proceedings, and some other bits about this program, in the OpenSpaceWorld.NET wiki workspace. Way to go Deborah!
Notice the photos in the top-left corner of this page? They’re different every time you look at this page because they’re randomly selected from all photos tagged “openspacetech” at flickr.com. So go ahead and add your own photos there and notice the diversity of what open space looks like throughout time and space.
Many practitioners of OST underline that the daily practice of open space in life is more important than the tool called “Open Space Technology.”
Michael Herman together with Chris Corrigan have outlined a brief description of the four practices of Open Space. Michael offered a refined version of these practices recently.
Paul Everett shared his understanding of these practices on the OS list as inspired by the South African teacher, Oz Swallow.
As Paul remembers them:
CHOOSE TO HAVE FUN
Fun creates Enjoyment.
Enjoyment invites Participation.
Participation focuses Attention.
Attention expands Awareness.
Awareness promotes Insight.
Insight generates Knowledge.
Knowledge facilitates Action.
Action yields Results.
(Therefore, Fun is results-producing)
You have probably noticed the ever rotating set of photos to the right. These are photos of Open Space events posted at Flickr using the tag “openspacetech.” Amazingly, in the space of only a couple of weeks the number of photos with that tag has grown from a few dozen to 428. You can see them all at the Flickr openspacetech page. It provides a wonderful visual feast of the process with which we work.
You too can take part, by starting a Flickr account, uploading your photos and tagging away.
