OpenSpaceSessionNotes

Attendees:

• TedErnst
• MarkDilley
• JohnAbbe
• BrandonCsSanders

Opening observations before we started the OpenSpace:

Some people need a time an place to go have that be OpenSpace

This is a toy example of using open space

Mark: Meeting for activism … here is what you can do in meetings, its called OpenSpace how should we

So our participants posted

Our mini-AgendaWall

• wiki … the future of meatspace wiki
• the future of WikiSym
• celebrate what has happened for us each so far here at WikiSym
• irc bits

Celebration

• face to face meeetings with people you respect
• being free and knowing that I'm free
• finding people to work on my passion with
• seeing connections between people leading to action (there is code written now that was not written yesterday at this time)
• SisterSites may be like that too
• chatting with friend in berkeley at same time I'm here (hi Lucy!)
• worrying about snorring was for naught b/c others in the room snore way more
• no matter what the circumstances, there's always room to open more space
• understanding semantic web now (a breakthrough!)
• meeting Ward - now I can die
• standing up in session about waste of bandwidth
• appropriate tech for different contexts (face to face or distance or whatever)
• meeting Sunir, Ross, Jimbo, etc (star factor)
• meeting people interested in indexing

• being able to do things on-line while interacting with people live here can be overwhelming
• sometimes we're not engaged by what's up front so we multi-task to try to do something more useful (email, irc, whatever) at the same time