From WikiSym 2008

Contents 1 OpenSpace 1.1 Scheduled Topics 1.1.1 Session Report/ Relatorio de Sessao 1.1.2 Monday 1.1.3 Tuesday 1.1.4 Wednesday 1.2 History 1.3 The Four Principles 1.4 The One Law 1.5 See also

OpenSpace

OpenSpace is the energy of a good coffee break, with the flexible structure of wiki, where last minute, new creative ideas that otherwise wouldn't be on the WikiSym program to be worked on by all types of wiki enthusiasts, in a format that allows deeper consideration of an issue than can be achieved with a 20 minute presentation.

As a point of reference, many unconferences are organized with OpenSpace or a variant.

Scheduled Topics

Session Report/ Relatorio de Sessao

This is an online version of the paper Session Report/ Relatorio de Sessao to use on the page for each session.

Monday

• Semantic Wiks - Can They Work? Structure vs. Simplicity
• Tracking Wiki Evolution - How can we measure and predict wiki growth patterns? What standards do we need to do so?
• Wikis in Project Management
• Security
• Wikimedia Toolserver
• Agile Management of Writers
• Wiki gaming: Act or you lose

Tuesday

• State of WikiCreole
• Tools to study wikis
• How good is MS Sharepoint as a wiki?
• State of WikiCreole - common wiki markup
• How to measure contributions in a corporate wiki?
• Teaching with wikis in Higher Education & What wikis need to wrk in educational contexts
• Wiki Research Planet

• Wikis for kids: How good they can be??
• How to sell a wiki both internally and as a consulant?
• Distributed Wikis (on worldwide scale)
• ShyWiki - A spactial hypertext wiki
• What are the tasks of a wiki gardener?
• TikiWiki - CMS/Groupware
• OmegaWiki - The Multilingual Dictionary and Thesaurus

Wednesday

• Play/Learn go/igo/baduk/weiqui

• Junkies Like Us - How the Social Web Influences Our Understanding Of Privacy
• Wikimedia Toolserver: getting Wikipedia updates in real time / Making Wikimedia Foundation data usable for research
• Time to play a Wiki Game: it is simple and fun
• Software development the wiki way
• Are you a contributor to wikipedia or any other conternt community? Share your notions of expertise, citizenship and self-representation
• Lively Kernel - Directions and possibilties
• WikiTracer: mapping the wikisphere
• Do you have experience working in small group/team with wiki: Share your small-group wiki practice

History

Reference: http://www.openspaceworld.com/brief_history.htm

In 1985, Harrison Owen organized The Third Annual International Symposium on Organization Transformation in a very different way. Harrison claims people have been meeting this way as long as there have been people on earth, though many would say that the minimal structure Harrison added is essential, just the minimal structure provided by a wiki is essential. In a wiki, automatic linking is one of those pieces of structure, for example. In Open Space, the time grid on the wall is perhaps essential.

The Four Principles

• Whenever it starts is the right time.
• Whoever comes is the right people.
• Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
• When it's over, it's over.

The One Law

• The Law of Two Feet (or the Law of Mobility)

See also

• http://www.openspaceworld.com/ - Harrison Owen's site
• http://www.openspaceworld.org/ - worldwide practitioner's site
• Chris Corrigan's Open Space Resources
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
• Amazon listing for Open Space Technology: A User's Guide
• http://www.openingspace.net/ - Lisa Heft's site
• http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/ - find a facilitator near you

In Portugal:

• http://www.casa-da-felicidade.org - Ana Castanheira's site in portuguese
• http://acasadafelicidade.googlepages.com - Ana Castanheira's site in english