Live Draft :: Open Spaces: Diana Larsen
- Turning all conferences into a coffee break !
- Principles
- the right people show up (who want to be there)
- It starts when it starts
- It is not over till it is over (if it is not over , you should find a way to continue it)
- It is driven by both passion and responsiblity (one cant stand without the other)
- Host has an addition role :
- to make sure that sessions start and continue (no matter what the subject is)
- Makes sure that people participate, or assign someone to do that
- Make sure the that the notes get recorded
- The one law of open space is the law of two feet: If you are not participating or learning then you take your two feets and you go where you think you can
- ButterFly: People moving arround spending 5 min in each session, or maybe create there sessions
- Bumblebees : People move ideas between sessions
- Self organized
I’m very much interested in talking with you regarding this part of the conference. Did you take more pictures (especially of the planning board and of the breakout sessions)?
What were the themes suggested for each session?
Comment by Eric — March 19, 2007 @ 1:15 pm
I took a bit more photos, i can pass them to you whenever u want, and we can talk about it then
I am quite interested too in sharing the experience…
BTW Diana might think about coming to Paris for our Valtech openspaces, thats if it will be in english, otherwise she suggested a french speaker…
Comment by sadek — March 19, 2007 @ 1:35 pm
Thanks for blogging about QCon! I just wanted to let you know that we quoted and linked from this entry on the over all QCon 2007 blogger’s key takeaway points and lessons learned article: http://www.infoq.com/articles/qcon-2007-bloggers-summary
Feel free to link to it and of course blogging about this articles existence would help even more people learn from your and other bloggers takeaways.
Thanks again!
Diana
InfoQ/QCon
Comment by diana — March 22, 2007 @ 10:56 am
Sadek,
Our OpenSpace conference will certainly be mostly in French, simply because I expect 95% participants to be French-speaking. The spoken language will derive from participants’ wishes anyway.
That said, the IT community is quite open and most people speak reasonable English, and I expect that a non-French speaker would probably feel quite at ease. In fact, we are hoping to get a few non-French speaking people to come over. That should make things easier.
I went to the Sun Tech Days in Paris this week, and it seemed to me that no attendants had any problem understanding the talks in English which were no less successful that the other ones.
Thanks for the pictures you gave me the other day. Good thing you are trigger-happy with your camera
Eric
Comment by Eric — March 23, 2007 @ 9:55 am