{"id":1186,"date":"2007-06-22T08:20:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T16:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2007-06-24T11:17:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T19:17:04","slug":"notes-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/notes-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.identitywoman.net\/\">Kaliya Hamlin<\/a> is getting really noticed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unconference.net\/\">her work promoting Open Space in the tech community<\/a>.  The whole idea of unconferencing has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jumped_the_shark\">jumped the shark<\/a>, but there is still an art to doing Open Space.  It&#8217;s easy but not simple, and Kaliya has been a great guardian of the essence of the process as it grows into the tech world in a big way  <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/06\/08\/magazines\/business2\/unconferences.biz2\/index.htm\">This article from the Business 2.0 blog<\/a> is another piece of good attention being thrown her way.  Actually there are a rash of articles out these days on Open Space, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.rogers.dgtlpub.com\/data\/issuePDF\/MIT\/9000000473_open_for_business.pdf\">including one in a publication called Meetings and Incentive Travel<\/a>, that quotes my Canadian mates Diane Gibault, Michelle Cooper and Larry Peterson.  Add to that this <a href=\"http:\/\/transitionculture.org\/2007\/06\/19\/transition-initiatives-open-space-film\/\">very useful short film on Open Space<\/a>, and you could safely say that our beloved process has truly tipped.<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of mates, <a href=\"http:\/\/luminousedge.blogspot.com\/\">Thomas Arthur<\/a> comes through with a link he sent by Google chat which deepens the ida of Pattern Language, moving it into another level of &#8220;generative code&#8221; for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingneighborhoods.org\/ht-0\/bln-exp.htm\">building living neighbourhoods<\/a>.  This gets at  something I was saying in Belgium, standing up for Pattern Language which I understand as a noticing about the world rather than a prescriptive recipe.  It is very much generative code.  Thomas&#8217; link sent me running to check up on <a href=\"http:\/\/neighbourhoods.typepad.com\/neighbourhoods\/\">Kevin Harris&#8217; excellent blog<\/a> and I note he has been recently posting interesting things on <a href=\"http:\/\/neighbourhoods.typepad.com\/neighbourhoods\/files\/kh_revised_summary_third_place_forum.pdf\">third places<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wethink.wikia.com\/wiki\/Main_Page\">mass creativity<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrf.org.uk\/knowledge\/findings\/housing\/2048.asp\">social interactions in public spaces<\/a>.  Kevin&#8217;s blog is in my &#8220;check once a month&#8221; folder, and it&#8217;s always rich.<\/li>\n<li>Last note for this week:  While I was in Belgium a couple of weeks ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viatt.ca\">Vancouver Island Aboriginal Transition Team<\/a> held a monmumental celebration to mark the formal shift to an interim authority.  What this means is that we are half way to becoming a full authority for Aboriginal child and family services on Vancouver Island.  The celebration was held at the Snuneymexw longhouse near Nanaimo, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/viatt.ca\/achannel4b.wmv\">really nice piece aired on TV about it<\/a> (.wmv).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaliya Hamlin is getting really noticed for her work promoting Open Space in the tech community. The whole idea of unconferencing has jumped the shark, but there is still an art to doing Open Space. It&#8217;s easy but not simple, and Kaliya has been a great guardian of the essence of the process as it grows into the tech world in a big way This article from the Business 2.0 blog is another piece of good attention being thrown her way. Actually there are a rash of articles out these days on Open Space, including one in a publication called &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[22,12,32,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-first-nations","category-links","category-open-space","category-organization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-j8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}