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If you are passionate about innovation in finance, we invite you to participate in BarCampBankSeattle.
When & Where
Dates: July 21st - 22nd, 2007
Location: 
MiKiJio Arts
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch will be provided on-site, along with beverages and snacks.
Costs: We invite sponsorship from interested organizations, and will ask for participants to contribute $35.
- People and organizations interested in in sponsoring this event should contact Jesse Robbins.
What is a BarCamp & BarCampBank?
BarCamps are part of an international network of “unconferences“. They are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. Many focus on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols. The name is a playful allusion to its origins, with reference to the hacker slang term “Foo Bar“. The BarCamp movement arose as a spin-off from Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only unconference hosted by open source publishing leader, Tim O’Reilly.
BarCampBank events are organized internationally to foster innovation in banking, credit unions, and finance. BarCampBankSeattle will be sixth BarCampBank event and the first held in the United States.
For more information on this event, please go to the BarCampBankSeattle wiki page or email Jesse Robbins at jesse.robbins@openaid.org!
July 2nd, 2007
I’ve just finished four exciting days at the OECD World Forum in Turkey, and wanted to make sure I had posted before I got on the plane to return. (Also, there have been some intermittent problems with accessing the blog which appear to have been caused by our hosting provider.)
BarCamps are part of an international network of “unconferences“. They are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. Many focus on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols. The name is a playful allusion to its origins, with reference to the hacker slang term “Foo Bar“. The BarCamp movement arose as a spin-off from Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only unconference hosted by open source publishing leader, Tim O’Reilly.
BarCampBank events are organized internationally to foster innovation in banking, credit unions, and finance. BarCampBankSeattle will be sixth BarCampBank event and the first held in the United States.
What to expect
In Open Space, a facilitator explains the process and then participants are invited to co-create the agenda and host their own discussion groups. Discussions are held in designated areas or separate rooms known as ‘breakout spaces’ and participants are free to move amongst the discussion groups. Each group records the conversations in a form which can be used to distribute or broadcast the proceedings of the meeting (in hard copy, blog, podcast, video, etc). Each morning participants have the opportunity to announce new discussion topics / late-breaking sessions. At the end of the day the full group reconvenes for comments and reflection. This helps participants to re-engage in the full group over the duration of the meeting.
While the mechanics of Open Space provide a simple means to self-organize, it is the underlying principles that make it effective. The Law of Two Feet expresses the core idea of taking responsibility for what you love. In practical terms, the law says that if you’re neither contributing nor getting value where you are, use your two feet (or available form of mobility) and go somewhere where you can. It is also a reminder to stand up for your passion. From the law, flow four simple principles:
- Whoever comes are the right people
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
- Whenever it starts is the right time
- When it’s over, it’s over
What will happen
We never know exactly what will happen when we open the space for people to do their most important work, but we can guarantee these results when any group gets into Open Space:
- All of the issues that are MOST important to the participants will be raised.
- All of the issues raised will be addressed by those participants most qualified and capable of getting something done on each of them.
- All of the most important ideas, discussion, data, recommendations, conclusions, questions for further study, and plans for immediate action will be documented in one comprehensive report — finished, printed and in the hands of participants when they leave.
- The total contents of this report document can be focused and prioritized in a matter of a few hours.
- After the event, all of these results will be made publicly available, so the conversation can invite every stakeholder into discussion and implantation — right now.
When & Where
- Dates: July 21st - 22nd, 2007
- Location: Still being decided
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner on both days will be available, along with beverages and snacks.
- Costs: We invite sponsorship from interested organizations, and will ask for participants to contribute $35.
- People and organizations interested in in sponsoring this event should contact Jesse Robbins.
How to sign-up & get involved
- Add your name to the participant list on this page
- Write and Blog about this event, and forward it on to people you think would be interested.
Confused? Need Help or an explanation?
Please email Jesse Robbins or call +1.206.755.3739. I’m here to help you participate!
June 30th, 2007
We’ve started organizing BarCampBankSeattle, which will probably be the first US BarCampBank meeting. A sign-up form and more information will be posted to the wiki and discussed in the BarCampBank group.
A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants.
BarCampBank is a community organized around the following mission:
The aim of BarCampBank is to foster innovations and the creation of new business models in the world of banking and finance.
Here’s an article about “unconferences” like BarCamp in BusinessWeek: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_20/b4034080.htm
May 14th, 2007
I hightly recommend attending Ignite II at the CHAC this Tuesday, February 13th. The last Ignite was fantastic, and several of the upcoming talks are extremely relevant to Black Rock Federal, especially:
- Scott Kveton of JanRain will be presenting on OpenID. OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. For more information, see the outstanding presentation “ETech 2006 — Who Is the Dick on My Site?”, by Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, Sxip Identity.
- Nancy White, of Full Circle Associates, will be presenting “What the Bleep is a Community Technology Steward?”
- Sarah Davies with Freedom For IP will be presenting “Share and share alike: GPL, Creative Commons, and the future of digital freedom”
- Our very own Corprew Reed will be presenting on the“American Society for Information Science & Technology: What the heck is the Pacific Northwest Chapter of ASIS&T?”
Many thanks to Bre Pettis, Brady Forrest, and Make: Magazine for putting on these events!
See you there!
February 10th, 2007
We will be writing our charter as part of an Open Space Technology (OST) conference and forum, and so I thought I’d begin explaining what OST is all about. Here is a little background… enjoy!
-Jesse
This is the front page of the Business Section of the San Jose Mercury News for July 13, 2006 it features the Principles of Open Space and asks - How can you plan anything in Silicon Valley using these rules?
“Open Space Technology is a simple way to run productive meetings, for five to 2000+ people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization, in everyday practice and ongoing change…”
Harrison Owen describes OST as:
“At the very least, Open Space is a fast, cheap, and simple way to better, more productive meetings. At a deeper level, it enables people to experience a very different quality of organization in which self-managed work groups are the norm, leadership a constantly shared phenomenon, diversity becomes a resource to be used instead of a problem to be overcome, and personal empowerment a shared experience. It is also fun. In a word, the conditions are set for fundamental organizational change, indeed that change may already have occurred. By the end, groups face an interesting choice. They can do it again, they can do it better, or they can go back to their prior mode of behavior.
Open Space is appropriate in situations where a major issue must be resolved, characterized by high levels of complexity, high levels of diversity (in terms of the people involved), the presence of potential or actual conflict, and with a decision time of yesterday.
Open Space runs on two fundamentals: passion and responsibility. Passion engages the people in the room. Responsibility ensures things get done. A focusing theme or question provides the framework for the event. The art of the question lies in saying just enough to evoke attention, while leaving sufficient open space for the imagination to run wild.”
Update 1/14/07: Ted Earnst blogged about us on OpenSpaceWorld’s blog.
January 13th, 2007
