CITCON 2008 - Open Spaces Conference Planning
Once again I'm continually amazed at how well the whole "open spaces" conference concept works, on Friday night we all gathered at the Jasper Hotel and pitched our topic ideas and questions and spent the next two hours beavering away with refactoring the timetable:
In true continuous integration form, not even starting the conference Saturday morning kept the timetable from being changed and reworked during the day - with sessions continually being bumped, combined, or moved around based on peoples feedback of the just completed sessions:
Having been through four Open Space style conferences/events (two CITCON's, Kiwifoo, and Baacamp) and the upcoming Baacamp 2 I'm firmly in love with this style of event over the more traditional conference.