I have been designing and facilitating unconferences for the past 4 years and blogging about them almost as long on unconference.net I mainly work with technical communities and related fields. Most of the unconferences I design spend a majority of their time in Open Space Technology. I also draw on other methods listed on my blog .

I participated in the December 2008 foundational meeting for this project and participated on and off this winter spring on the calls moving things forward. I am very excited about working with other group process facilitators to understand more about what I know as a practitioner and the opportunity to build a resource that will help me teach/explain to others the underlying pattern to doing this kind of work well.

I have another professional life as an expert in user-centric digital identity - basically trying to solve the problem of how are regular people empowered to move their "Identity" with them between websites as tey move acorss the web. I have been working on this problem building the technical community and facilitating the main community event that happens semi-annually the Interent Identity Workshop. I am known in the industry as the "Identity Woman" because this is the title of my blog. I am a steward of the Identity Commons and have beeen a key leader of that organizaiton including on conference calls :) I have been using mailing lists, wiki's and blogs to facilitate community collaboraiton in this work and I am looking forward to bringing these skills to this project/community.