[Pattern-language] 10 pattern categories

[Helmut Leitner]

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 <mailto:douglas at publicsphereproject.org>
> https://twitter.com/doug_schuler
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