UNRAVELLING THE UNCONFERENCE Name, D.O.B. place of Logo and link to "Mantra" Origin / reason / context Community; Offspring; Format and time frame of unconference event origin, founder(s) online presence 'Reach'; Current governance openspaceworld.org "It is what it is" Founder's realisation of the Community: wide variety of disciplines. 1. Opening Circle 1984 value of the coffee break, Indirect offspring - BarCamp, 2. Facilitator’s explanation of principles and law Monterey, CA, USA The Law of Two combined with reluctance to THATcamp, TeachMeet, Edcamp, 3. Multiple conversations happening in the same big Harrison Owen Feet organise another 'traditional' Learning On A Beach (LOB). space, several discussion sessions across time conference, led to OST. Reach - worldwide. 4. Closing Circle Open and free for all to use. Lasts between half a day and three days. World Café 1995 theworldcafe.com conversational It rained on a gathering planned Community: wide variety of disciplines. Attendees take part in small group round tables, each Mill Valley, CA, USA leadership for outdoors; attendees split into Offspring: learning and scholarship with a different question to discuss; answers are Juanita Brown, David small groups at tables indoors. programme, Knowledge Café. harvested and shared to the large group; seven key Isaacs Reach: worldwide, cross sector. design principles. Official World Cafe Foundation. Lasts between half a day and three days. PechaKucha 2003 pechakucha.org Each PechaKucha Designed to curb architects' Community: creative groups worldwide. Presentations to attendees: Tokyo, Japan is “a box of tendency to talk on forever Reach: over 900 cities. 20 slides, automatically forwarding after 20 seconds. Astrid Klein, Mark Dytham chocolates.” when presenting. Organized by “handshake” agreement. Lasts less than two hours.

Barcamp August 2005 .org NO An open version of Foo Camp Comunity: IT professionals. Volunteers host, and organise by concensus, a variety of Palo Alto, CA, USA SPECTATORS, (invitation only, participant led Offspring:: EdCamp, RE barcamp, sessions in a given time frame; session schedule Çelik, Messina, King, Smith, ONLY gathering of techies). 3Dcamp, and many more in the suggestions posted centrally on whiteboard 'grid'. Mullenweg PARTICIPANTS business world. Lasts up to a full day. Open and free for all to use. TeachMeet May 2006 teachmeet.pbworks.com teachers sharing Three bloggers, meeting face to Community: Teachers. Offspring: Mixture of presentations and conversations Edinburgh, Scotland ideas with teachers face at a conference, arranged ResearchMeet, LeadMeet, (2 min. 'Nano', 7 min 'Micro', 15 min 'Soap Box'; random Ewan McIntosh, David to meet again and share ideas MakerMeet... order; round tables), followed by 'TeachEat'. Noble, John Johnson in a social setting. Reach: worldwide adhoc groups. Lasts a couple of hours. Open and free for all to use. Ignite December 2006 www.ignitetalks.io EVERYONE A get together for self- Community: mainly 'geeks' but many Rapid fire presentation from each attendee Seattle, WA, USA SPEAKS confessed geeks. others have adopted the format. (20 slides, 15 seconds each = 5 mins per presenter). Brady Forrest, Bre Pettis "Enlighten us, but Reach: 350+ teams worldwide. Lasts less than two hours. make it quick" A Public Benefits Corporation.

ThatCamp, 2008 thatcamp.org It’s collaborative: Same model as BarCamp, for Community: humanists and "Volunteers host, and organise by concensus, a variety of Fairfax, VA, USA there are no humanities. THAT stands for technologists. sessions in a given time frame; session schedule George Mason University spectators. The Humanities and Reach - worldwide. suggestions posted centrally on whiteboard 'grid'." Teachnology. Open source under a GNU licence; 7- Session themes: Talk / Teach / Make / Play. person Council governed by Lasts a day usually, perhaps two or three days. community-produced Charter. Edcamp 2010 edcamp.org Connect. A group of educators adopting Community: Educators. Attendees organise by concensus, a variety of sessions Philadelphia, PA, USA Empower. Lead. the un-conference protocol Reach: concentrated in the USA, but in a given time frame; Borota, Callahan, Hertz, Rowe, inspired by Barcamp. worldwide occurences. Over 700 session schedule suggestions posted centrally on Jarrett, Leaness, Miles, Ritzius, recorded to date. whiteboard 'grid'. Ferguson, Sivick, Swanson A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit. Lasts usually one full day.

CampEd 2012 facebook.com/CampEdsite "glorying in Established as antidote to Community: Educators, tweeters, their Friends, educators, families agree a weekend venue. Yorkshire, England shambolic corporate education families and friends. Offspring: CampEd 'Pop-up' learning sessions run by participants. Provisions Helen Daykin, Bill Lord & amateurism" conference. (Inspired by John South. and camp-fire conversations are shared. Dughall McCormick Davitt's Learning On A Beach, Owned by the CampEd community. May last anything up to 3 days. Mayo, Ireland, 2011). Pedagoo 2015 pedagoo.org for teachers, by Born on Twitter as an online Community: Educators. Usually Saturday. Format similar to TeachMeet, but each Scotland teachers community of teachers Reach: Scotland.. engagement is longer to allow for conversation on each Collective of teachers supporting, encouraging and Pedagoo is a not for profit run by a topic. Online engagement via Twitter continues 24/7. sharing innovative and effective small team of educators in spare time. approaches to T&L, Pedagoo Offspring: Pedagoo Muckle, Wee now meets 'in real life' (IRL). Pedagoo. Gasta 2014 Gasta 5-4-3-2-1-GASTA! Oriningated at ILTA conference. Community: Educators. Held as a lightning session within a larger conference, Ireland Lighting 5-min talk in the style of Reach: Ireland, UK, Canada the MC involves the audience in the countdown and Tom Farrelly Pecha Kucha or Ignite, but with timing of the presentations active audience particpation BrewEd 2017 BrewedEd Bringing Pints and Established to enable teachers Community: Educators. Usually Saturday from mid-morning til late afternoon in a Sheffield, England Pedagogy to the to talk about teaching and learn Reach: UK room in a pub. Preseantations and talk each talk approx. Ed Finch & Daryn Simon- People since 2017 new things in a setting that is half hour. Usually include a lighthearted team quiz. Egan relaxed and social. Compiled by Mags Amond as part of PhD research into the evolution of the TeachMeet phenomenon - contact [email protected] [if printing, best use A3 setting]