April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 19m
English
The possibility of creating instant proceedings during the Open Space meeting has been mentioned in passing. You will recall our opening story about the 225 people who produced 150 pages of proceedings in two days and had bound copies ready to be carried home. If it all sounds very high tech, you have been misled; the actual process is nothing more than a mundane use of a standard word-processing program. Yes, you need access to computers, and it would probably be a good idea to know something about them. But a PhD in computer science is not required.
The notion of on-the-spot proceedings, like Open Space itself, grew out of the frustration generated from dealing with meetings as they ...