Unconferences

This is a fairly new idea for turning a conference on its head and drawing the maximum participation and energy out of a gathering.

Defining the concept

 * About Unconferences: http://www.unconference.net/
 * See these KB articles: Mapping Dialogue - Open Space Technology and Mapping Dialogue - The World Café.
 * Wikipedia on Unconferences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference) and Open Space Technology conferences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology) an early type of Unconference.

How to do it

 * How to set up an Unconference - a helpful pragmatic guide: How to DIY an Unconference
 * How to set up and agenda: Agenda Creation
 * Fishbowl dialogue looks very interesting as a way of having an unPanel: unconference methods fish bowl dialogue
 * A method for uncovering diverse views: Spectrogram

Examples

 * An Unconference in action: and

Resources

 * http://www.unconference.net/
 * http://www.openspaceworld.org/ (More on Open Space meetings)
 * very interesting article on planning a weekend sprint for the perl 6 programming language. A well written look at conference planning from a differ perspective... http://code.foo.no/2012/05/29/a-perl-6-patterned-hackathon