From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Thu May 8 17:27:47 2014 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 17:27:47 -0700 Subject: [Pattern-language] 10 pattern categories Message-ID: <516DF4B3-6021-4424-BF5B-6A1A6EEAA495@publicsphereproject.org> alarmed by Google, Facebook, NSA, etc. etc. etc. For what it’s worth, here is a list of pattern categories that I believe would make a good start towards characterizing a strong civil society movement around information and communication in which community informatics played an important role. What has been left out? Comments are welcome.... 10 PATTERN CATEGORIES for a Non Lethargic People’s Campaign Vision and Purpose Why get involved? What would we really like to see in our information and communication systems? Resource Development online and otherwise, a people’s Google?! Education ourselves, our students, general public, venues, needs and approaches Collaborative Venues and Values visioning, building, deliberating, experimenting Network Development roles, infrastructure, branding, mission(s), outreach, other groups Engagement with government, business, conferences, internet bodies, manifestos, critique Community Interaction and Dialogue partnerships, community inquiry Open Communication schedules, protocols, shared documents, forums Early Warning and Rapid Response Products events, white papers, op-eds, petitions, testimony Self-Governance guidelines, procedures, documents, self-evaluation, using our (not developed yet) patterns Yes, I know it's wacky.... 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URL: From valeriebrown at ozemail.com.au Thu May 8 20:14:22 2014 From: valeriebrown at ozemail.com.au (Valerie Brown) Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 13:14:22 +1000 Subject: [Pattern-language] 10 pattern categories In-Reply-To: <516DF4B3-6021-4424-BF5B-6A1A6EEAA495@publicsphereproject.org> References: <516DF4B3-6021-4424-BF5B-6A1A6EEAA495@publicsphereproject.org> Message-ID: <536C480E.3060005@ozemail.com.au> Not wacky at all - very valuable as a resource for people wanting to use the patterns. Val On 9/05/2014 10:27 AM, Doug Schuler wrote: > > alarmed by Google, Facebook, NSA, etc. etc. etc. > > > For what it's worth, here is a list of pattern categories that I > believe would make a good start towards characterizing a strong civil > society movement around information and communication in which > community informatics played an important role. > > What has been left out? > > Comments are welcome.... > > > 10 PATTERN CATEGORIES for a Non Lethargic People's Campaign > > Vision and Purpose > Why get involved? What would we really like to see in our > information and communication systems? > > Resource Development > online and otherwise, a people's Google?! > > Education > ourselves, our students, general public, venues, needs and approaches > > Collaborative Venues and Values > visioning, building, deliberating, experimenting > > Network Development > roles, infrastructure, branding, mission(s), outreach, other groups > > Engagement > with government, business, conferences, internet bodies, > manifestos, critique > > Community Interaction and Dialogue > partnerships, community inquiry > > Open Communication > schedules, protocols, shared documents, forums > > Early Warning and Rapid Response > > Products > events, white papers, op-eds, petitions, testimony > > Self-Governance > guidelines, procedures, documents, self-evaluation, using our (not > developed yet) patterns > > > Yes, I know it's wacky.... > > > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > https://twitter.com/doug_schuler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public Sphere Project > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ > > Creating the World Citizen Parliament > http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution > (project) > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv > > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pattern-language mailing list > Pattern-language at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/pattern-language -- Valerie A. Brown AO, BSc MEd PhD Emeritus Professor, University of Western Sydney Director, Local Sustainability Project, Fenner School of Environment and Society Australian National University, val.brown at anu.edu.au Ph. 61 (0)2 62958650 http://www.valeriebrown.com.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leitner at wikiservice.at Thu May 8 23:25:32 2014 From: leitner at wikiservice.at (Helmut Leitner) Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 08:25:32 +0200 Subject: [Pattern-language] 10 pattern categories In-Reply-To: <516DF4B3-6021-4424-BF5B-6A1A6EEAA495@publicsphereproject.org> References: <516DF4B3-6021-4424-BF5B-6A1A6EEAA495@publicsphereproject.org> Message-ID: <536C74DC.2090900@wikiservice.at> Dear Doug, just a few thoughts in brainstorming mode. A while ago I started analizing the "patterns of the Commons Movement" and found that a wider concept of "Goods" is needed, so that one can say that "some good is in the center of a Commons Project" and "economy is about goods, and any such good can be also cared for by a Commons Project". If one defines such a "Good", then you find four subcategories: products, services, resources and infrastructures. Now it happens that your categories contain: Resource Development online and otherwise, a people's Google?! Network Development roles, infrastructure, branding, mission(s), outreach, other groups Products events, white papers, op-eds, petitions, testimony One might think about the services, an whether the "Development" aspect should be named or not. I'm very much in favour of it, because any pattern language or patterns are related to some context that is thought as being in a state of development, unfolding, design or creation. If these categories can be grouped, than what about the other categories? I think I see another subgroup around the "agents": Education (as Self Development or Individual Unfolding, Emanzipation) Collaborative Venues and Values (Community Development ?) Community Interaction and Dialogue (also Community Development ?) Self-Governance (Organisation Development) ... One might think about the other levels of social organization: family doesn't seem to have much weight nowadays (is this a problem), "society development" is probably the overall context of what Liberating Voices is about. A third group seems to be about something like "capabilities" or "issues of preception and interaction", that are somehow indepent from the agents or work across all agents. Early Warning and Rapid Response Open Communication Vision and Purpose Somehow, I think there could be more in this, like "dialogue building" or "conflict management", but this is only a vague fealing. Or does the "collaboration" category belong here? Anyway, now it seems easier for me to think about whether the list is complete and which concepts might be heading the others. Old greek category builders always tried to build categories as tree structures, trying to make sure that all phenomena were covered. Cheers! Helmut Am 09.05.14 02:27, schrieb Doug Schuler: > > alarmed by Google, Facebook, NSA, etc. etc. etc. > > > For what it's worth, here is a list of pattern categories that I > believe would make a good start towards characterizing a strong civil > society movement around information and communication in which > community informatics played an important role. > > What has been left out? > > Comments are welcome.... > > > 10 PATTERN CATEGORIES for a Non Lethargic People's Campaign > > Vision and Purpose > Why get involved? What would we really like to see in our > information and communication systems? > > Resource Development > online and otherwise, a people's Google?! > > Education > ourselves, our students, general public, venues, needs and approaches > > Collaborative Venues and Values > visioning, building, deliberating, experimenting > > Network Development > roles, infrastructure, branding, mission(s), outreach, other groups > > Engagement > with government, business, conferences, internet bodies, > manifestos, critique > > Community Interaction and Dialogue > partnerships, community inquiry > > Open Communication > schedules, protocols, shared documents, forums > > Early Warning and Rapid Response > > Products > events, white papers, op-eds, petitions, testimony > > Self-Governance > guidelines, procedures, documents, self-evaluation, using our (not > developed yet) patterns > > > Yes, I know it's wacky.... > > > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > https://twitter.com/doug_schuler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public Sphere Project > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ > > Creating the World Citizen Parliament > http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution > (project) > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv > > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pattern-language mailing list > Pattern-language at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/pattern-language -- HLS SOFTWARE/WIKISERVICE www.hls-software.at www.wikiservice.at leitner at hls-software.at leitner at wikiservice.at DI Dr. Helmut Leitner MOBIL: +43 676 7221638 TEL: +43 316 383820 Rosenberggürtel 41, A-8010 Graz, Österreich -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Fri May 9 10:08:29 2014 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 10:08:29 -0700 Subject: [Pattern-language] 10 pattern categories In-Reply-To: <536C74DC.2090900@wikiservice.at> References: <516DF4B3-6021-4424-BF5B-6A1A6EEAA495@publicsphereproject.org> <536C74DC.2090900@wikiservice.at> Message-ID: <82F31150-3FB6-41A3-8A79-AD0D143E37E8@publicsphereproject.org> thanks Helmut! This looks useful. Could you send out what your revised version would look like? BTW, I thought you had written, "Old geeks" (not old greeks) and I had a momentary thought that I'm not that old! :-) On May 8, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Helmut Leitner wrote: > Dear Doug, > > just a few thoughts in brainstorming mode. > > A while ago I started analizing the "patterns of the Commons Movement" and found > that a wider concept of "Goods" is needed, so that one can say that "some good is in > the center of a Commons Project" and "economy is about goods, and any such good > can be also cared for by a Commons Project". If one defines such a "Good", then you > find four subcategories: products, services, resources and infrastructures. > > Now it happens that your categories contain: > Resource Development > online and otherwise, a people’s Google?! > Network Development > roles, infrastructure, branding, mission(s), outreach, other groups > Products > events, white papers, op-eds, petitions, testimony > > One might think about the services, an whether the "Development" > aspect should be named or not. I'm very much in favour of it, because any > pattern language or patterns are related to some context that is thought > as being in a state of development, unfolding, design or creation. > > If these categories can be grouped, than what about the other categories? > I think I see another subgroup around the "agents": > > Education (as Self Development or Individual Unfolding, Emanzipation) > Collaborative Venues and Values (Community Development ?) > Community Interaction and Dialogue (also Community Development ?) > Self-Governance (Organisation Development) > ... > > One might think about the other levels of social organization: > family doesn't seem to have much weight nowadays (is this a problem), > "society development" is probably the overall context of what > Liberating Voices is about. > > A third group seems to be about something like "capabilities" or > "issues of preception and interaction", that are somehow > indepent from the agents or work across all agents. > > Early Warning and Rapid Response > Open Communication > Vision and Purpose > > Somehow, I think there could be more in this, like > "dialogue building" or "conflict management", but this is > only a vague fealing. Or does the "collaboration" category > belong here? > > Anyway, now it seems easier for me to think about whether the list > is complete and which concepts might be heading the others. > > Old greek category builders always tried to build categories as > tree structures, trying to make sure that all phenomena > were covered. > > Cheers! > Helmut > > Am 09.05.14 02:27, schrieb Doug Schuler: >> >> alarmed by Google, Facebook, NSA, etc. etc. etc. >> >> >> For what it’s worth, here is a list of pattern categories that I believe would make a good start towards characterizing a strong civil society movement around information and communication in which community informatics played an important role. >> >> What has been left out? >> >> Comments are welcome.... >> >> >> 10 PATTERN CATEGORIES for a Non Lethargic People’s Campaign >> >> Vision and Purpose >> Why get involved? What would we really like to see in our information and communication systems? >> >> Resource Development >> online and otherwise, a people’s Google?! >> >> Education >> ourselves, our students, general public, venues, needs and approaches >> >> Collaborative Venues and Values >> visioning, building, deliberating, experimenting >> >> Network Development >> roles, infrastructure, branding, mission(s), outreach, other groups >> >> Engagement >> with government, business, conferences, internet bodies, manifestos, critique >> >> Community Interaction and Dialogue >> partnerships, community inquiry >> >> Open Communication >> schedules, protocols, shared documents, forums >> >> Early Warning and Rapid Response >> >> Products >> events, white papers, op-eds, petitions, testimony >> >> Self-Governance >> guidelines, procedures, documents, self-evaluation, using our (not developed yet) patterns >> >> >> Yes, I know it's wacky.... >> >> >> >> Douglas Schuler >> douglas at publicsphereproject.org >> https://twitter.com/doug_schuler >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Public Sphere Project >> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ >> >> Creating the World Citizen Parliament >> http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament >> >> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) >> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv >> >> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) >> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pattern-language mailing list >> Pattern-language at scn9.scn.org >> http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/pattern-language > > > -- > HLS SOFTWARE/WIKISERVICE www.hls-software.at www.wikiservice.at > leitner at hls-software.at leitner at wikiservice.at > DI Dr. Helmut Leitner MOBIL: +43 676 7221638 TEL: +43 316 383820 > Rosenberggürtel 41, A-8010 Graz, Österreich > _______________________________________________ > Pattern-language mailing list > Pattern-language at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/pattern-language Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org https://twitter.com/doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! 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(And to me "winning" means gaining some influence on the future, i.e. it’s not a zero-sum game.) We must be more organized, and neither a market-based or top-down hierarchical approach will work. And, waiting for the right approach to emerge means that we miss the boat. The NSA, Google, Facebook, etc. etc. will grab the reins and never them go. Let's not forget that Chicken Little is sometimes right... I believe that a pattern language* approach can provide one possible way to organize people — but with a light touch. With a small amount of change in our work we can help ensure that we’re coordinating better, while working more-or-less independently. A pattern language is intended to be holistic. In other words, if we (writ large) are hoping to help shape the the communications and information systems that are used in the future, we need to be working in LOTS of different areas — and the work we do should be mutually reinforcing. For example, while I totally support your efforts to get more voices represented in bodies that are deliberating about the future of the Internet, I don't feel that that should be the whole of our campaign. (I’m of course not saying that you’d claim that it was.) So, to get out of theory and into action, what would we do next? I think we would need to start developing patterns for the categories I suggested. This means thinking and writing about actions that we’re probably doing already and what we think we ought to be doing. At the same time, however, we want to be putting these patterns into action — and this will take different forms when used by different people in different contexts. And while we’re doing that I’d also suggest looking into "meta patterns." Aldo and I have discussed these to some degree; they are basically patterns about patterns; how we develop them, how we use them, how they’re supposed to be used in conjunction with each other — their linkages etc., how we self govern the process, and why are we doing it. This approach is described as We make the road by walking by education liberators such as Myles Horton and Paulo Friere, as well as technologists such as Tim Berners-Lee, when he said, we make the future by building it. (Thanks to Fiorella for reminding me of this!) And the Internet itself also was moved along in this way in the pre-corporate, pre-NSA days, via RFC’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments). It sounds complicated but I don’t think it is. We’ll never speak with exactly one voice but this process could help us see where we are and what we can do. Thanks!! — Doug * I generally agree with the definitions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language. Patterns are statements of actions that can be used over and over without using them the same way twice (From The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander). And a pattern language is a coherent, holistic collection of these patterns. The important elements of pattern languages for me are the holism, the integration of theory of theory and practice / thought and action, the acknowledgement of local context, the generativity of the patterns, and the explicit claim that the forces that we advocate with the patterns are intended to divert existing forces and help build a better society. These ideas were explicit in Christopher Alexander’s original writings and I’d dispute (to some degree) the definition of patterns as merely “good design practices.” You can get an idea of what I think patterns are by looking at our collection at http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv. (I couldn’t find an online list of the 136 patterns in the original book, A Pattern Language. It should be noted that the pattern language approach has been adopted by people in many fields, from interface design to permaculture to education and so on. Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org https://twitter.com/doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Sun May 11 20:07:46 2014 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 20:07:46 -0700 Subject: [Pattern-language] Fwd: [ciresearchers] Patterns and Solutions: From Liberating Voices to Lift Every Voice References: Message-ID: <4CE6F310-AB9B-4FDA-A6DC-1F4B42D2CB5E@publicsphereproject.org> I'm taking the liberty of forwarding Ele's note to the ciresearchers list to the pattern language list. Ele's work looks fascinating and I'm hoping that some collaboration can come from this. — Doug Begin forwarded message: > From: Ele Jansen > Subject: Re: [ciresearchers] Patterns and Solutions: From Liberating Voices to Lift Every Voice > Date: May 11, 2014 1:43:43 AM PDT > > Hello everyone, > > thanks for the list and sharing with numerous readers. I knew a fair bit about the public sphere project, and am glad that it comes up in this list, so I can join a wider discussion/co-creation. Doug, having just submitted my thesis, I can contribute to a contained R&D project this summer. > > In order to say how I can contribute, allow me a brief introduction to my work: > > I just submitted my PhD thesis (abstract and contents here), which features an attempt for a pattern language. The paper is a media/design ethnography on the work of www.rebootstories.com. My research design included founding and running www.learndoshare.net, which captures pitfalls and successes of open collaboration among creative / social entrepreneurs. My interest lies in interdisciplinary work and community cultivation through technology and local communication. > > If this is of interest, please include me in a practice group. I'd be excited to get on a call and get to know everyone's ideas better to see what we can do together. > > B\Cheers > Ele > // > Ele Jansen > Media/Design Anthropologist > www.learndoshare.net > www.rebootstories.com > skype and social media: elejansen > +61(0)451282145 Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org https://twitter.com/doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: