I spent a good portion of this afternoon at a (solo) wiki gardening party on the Data Sharing Summit Wiki.

There is a page called Outcomes in the top Nav Bar that documents pages on the Data Sharing wiki along with the many blog posts that cover outcomes of sessions, links to photos of the summit and next steps.

I am quite pleased with the range of good documentation and commentary and hope that by next week there is even more posted. I will have written up all the Problems and Offerings that people put forward at the beginning of the weekend.

It was a pleasure to work with Marc Canter to bring this group together. Many have commented to me about how incredible the focus and productivity were at the event. I asked folks at the closing what they thought got done and we have an amazing list. At the closing circle 95% of folks thought we should do it again and 95% liked the format. The thing I love about open space is that it allows anyone in the group to put forward their ideas and the group votes with its feet about what to do. I think for innovating and getting stuff done there is no better way.

I would like to thank Innovis for their generous donation of space. Plaxo was super and stepped up to resource me for my time - facilitating that group is not an easy thing to do - it takes a lot of energy. AOL paid for a great dinner on Friday Night and Clear Spring covered the drinks - I think eating together is as much a part of a conference as 'the conference.' Leverage and Cerado also contributed money to make the event possible.

I will be doing another Wiki Gardening Party next week for the Data Sharing Summit Wiki Wednesday from 11-3 on the Freenode Channel #datasharing if you want to join in.