Unconference

alias:: unconferences tags:: #facilitation wikipedia:: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

• An unconference is a participant-driven meeting without pre-planned sessions

• Sarah Winge, the organizer (with Tim O’Reilly of Foo Camp, an early unconference, drew on her experience of open space and conversations with Harrison Owen to develop the format. The first Foo Camp happened October 10–12, 2003, in Sebastopol, California. In 2005 some of the attendees from previous years decided to produce their own BarCamp. These three events, BloggerCon, Foo Camp and BarCamp helped to popularize the term “unconference”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

• Techniques from Open Space Technology are used, where unconferences originated
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• I’ve run and founded many unconference style events, including BarCamp, #Northern Voice MooseCamp, Polyglot Conference, and Ethereum Magicians
  • The format usually starts with gathering all together and then having people suggest talks and topics
  • Participants can then “vote” on which topics are of interest
  • Facilitators then schedule and organize topics across spaces and time
  • The sessions themselves can be run in a number of ways
• See Fishbowl Conversation, World café
• Facilitation styles (from Wikipedia)
  • An unconference can be conducted using a number of facilitation styles. Some of these are:
    • Birds of a feather
    • Dotmocracy
    • Fishbowl Conversation
    • Ignite
    • Knowledge café
    • Lightning talks
    • Open Space Technology
    • PechaKucha
    • Speed geeking
    • World café