Can Planners Learn Something From Computer Programmers?

Unconferences, a type of informational gathering among open source software developers, could provide a model for the planning community.

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February 1, 2007, 10:00 AM PST

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

"If you want people to innovate, you usually have to bring them together. Conferences can be a terrific tool for getting folks in the same place and talking about the same related set of ideas, but they have a number of problems."

"Unconferences give a model for gathering people in a low-cost, high-impact way. At it's most basic, an unconference is simply an event where a space is offered for the participants to create and share their own sessions."

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