“Open Space” sessions allow you, as a participant, to determine part of our conversational agenda. “Open Space Technology” was born from the realization that the most exciting, satisfying, useful parts of a conference are often the coffee breaks. The goal of an Open Space Technology (OST; sometimes called an “unconference”) meeting is to create time and space for participants to engage deeply and creatively around issues of concern to them. The agenda is set by the participants and emerges from their individual and collective interests. There is no need to have prior experience with an OST event to participate — just bring your interests and ideas!
We invite you to think about topics that you would like to discuss with your colleagues. It could be a problem you face in your science gateway work, a question you have about gateway technologies, a discovery you’d like to share with others, or an idea that occurs to you during the course of the conference.
On Tuesday afternoon, we'll collect your ideas to organize "Open Space" conversations. There will be two 25-minute "sets" of concurrent sessions on Wednesday afternoon, plus a lunch "set" on Wednesday. Also, based on your registration ideas, we'll provide a variety of "Open Space" tables during Tuesday lunch. Think of them as mini BoFs!
We’ll be gathering your ideas, placing them into a basic agenda, and letting the conversation go!
