[Pattern-language] 10 pattern categories
Doug Schuler
douglas at publicsphereproject.org
Fri May 9 10:08:29 PDT 2014
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
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>> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project)
>> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv
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>> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book)
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Public Sphere Project
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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
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