[p2p-research] Resilience Patterns

Thu Apr 15 13:11:28 CEST 2010

Hi Jonathan,

an excellent item for our blog, thanks a lot,

I'm asking chris in cc to publish it, since I'll be mostly travelling for
the next 2 days,

Thanks Chris!

Michel

*Resilience: Patterns for thriving in an uncertain world*

On Saturday, April 10, 2010, a host of about 100 people held an open space
conference on the idea of "Resilience".   The event was organized by Neal
Gorenflo and Sharable.net, and held at the Hub Bay Area, a shared workspace
in Berkley, CA.

While open space meetings have a unique positive energy – in this case, the
meeting combined open space with a group of socially conscious,
share-friendly entrepreneurs and industry leaders to create a truly
memorable event.

*Resilience* is a characteristic of organizations and systems.  Primarily,
resilience describes the ability to continue to produce and provide value
over time, even when faced with various challenges and problems.   While the
idea is closely related to "success" and to "longevity" – these each are
both part of resilient systems, necessary factors but not sufficient.
  Systems
or organization can be successful or last a long time without being
resilient: take any spectacular major system failure as an example: success
up until the moment of failure.

While a complete discussion of resilience is long and complex, several key
principles to resilient systems repeatedly emerge.  These principles are not
binary, nor are they each requisite – but rather they are like tunable
factors or patterns that commonly emerge in different situations that
contribute to resilience over time:

*Redundancy*: several different ways or different people that can solve
common issues that arise.  Using redundant resources is only one of many
tools for problem solving, and has to be balanced against efficiency and
specialization; too much redundancy can increase resilience, but harm
long-term success.

*Resourcefulness*: Systems and groups can be much more resilient with
increased ability to change on the fly to solve different issues in novel
and unplanned ways.

*Modularity:* Replaceable and interchangeable parts that create value in
different ways increases resilience.

*Value Creation Diversity:* Resilience is increased with multiple different
elements in the system that work in different ways, and have different
degrees of susceptibility to various possible future problems.

*Complexity: *Resilience requires an appropriate degree of complexity in the
solutions or systems to maintain over time.  Too complex can mean dramatic
inefficiency and lowered resilience; not complex enough can reduce possible
solutions and resourcefulness in the face of future unknown problems.

*Shared Meaning/Purpose/Story: *All the people in a system, or the elements
in a physical situation are designed or aligned toward an explicit, shared
understanding of value creation or success.

*Risk Analysis: *Resilient systems in some way have an understanding of the
future issues or problems that may arise, and actively apply and tune the
other patterns to mitigate possible risks.

*Efficiency: *Typically resilient systems have a high degree of efficiency
and use minimal resources to accomplish value creation.  Extra resources are
hen available to plan and prepare for future problems.

* *

* *

This list is not exhaustive, nor does it fully cover the elements required
for what makes a system or an organization resilient.  However, this set of
patterns and ideas is a good starting point for thinking about how to keep
systems working in the face of unknown future problems.

Related Links on Resilience:

Event description is here:
http://shareable.net/blog/design-4-resilience-thriving-in-an-uncertain-world

A Very Short Primer on Resilience is here
http://shareable.net/blog/resilience-primer

Livestream of the event is here http://shareable.net/blog/D4Rlivestream

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Jonathan Dugan <jonathan at clearbits.net>wrote:

>
>
> Hi Michel,
>
> Attached is a first draft, focussed on a tangible set of resilience
> patterns discussed at length at D4R.  If this is helpful, please post
> and publish.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
> --
>
> Jonathan Dugan, PhD
> Founder, ClearBits
> http://www.clearbits.net @clearbits
> Email: jonathan at clearbits.net @jmdugan
> Direct: (650) 646-5369  Cell: (650) 799-5369
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 03:39:03PM +0700, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > dear Jonathan,
> >
> > a report on d4r, that concludes with a reference to the bay area
> movement,
> > would be idea,
> >
> > it doesn't have to be comprehensive, just point the way ..
> >
> > for the ads, I don't deal directly with such matters, so I refer this to
> > James Burke and cc Jeff Petry, our internet marketing expert,
> >
> > Michel
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Dugan <jonathan at clearbits.net
> >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Michael,
> > >
> > > As article is a great idea- as a concrete start, I could do a write up
> > > of the D4R event tomorrow, or would a more general article on sharing
> > > in the Bay Area be better?  I could take a start at a more general
> > > article, but probably don't have the complete expertise to finish
> > > something that broad.
> > >
> > > As for ads, we have a very limited referral program, currently there
> > > are only 2 other participants.  One is the torrent search engine
> > > youtorrent, and you can see an example of their ad here:
> > > http://www.youtorrent.com/music/7353603/pangea-latimeria
> > >
> > > This is simple a text link to
> > > http://www.clearbits.net/about/member_benefits?refer=youtorrent
> > > with "ClearBits: hosting and distribution of open licensed media."
> > >
> > > You could use refer=p2pfoundation  We're open to however you want to
> > > display the ad on your site.
> > >
> > > We can offer 25% of the initial year's subscription revenue for each
> > > new customer that signs up from a referral - the pricing is listed on
> > > the linked page.  This would yield about $11 and about $99 each for
> > > the two listed plans.  For clients who contract with us for custom
> > > (whitelabel) distribution, we would pay $250 for each new client.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jonathan
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Jonathan Dugan, PhD
> > > Founder, ClearBits
> > > http://www.clearbits.net @clearbits
> > > Email: jonathan at clearbits.net @jmdugan
> > > Direct: (650) 646-5369  Cell: (650) 799-5369
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 02:14:52PM +0700, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > > > Hi Jonathan,
> > > >
> > > > I'm in touch with shareable ...
> > > >
> > > > just an idea, some article on the san francisco scene would really be
> > > useful
> > > > for our blog and connecting the community more globally ...
> > > >
> > > > also, perhaps you could organize some form of advertising on our blog
> or
> > > > wiki for a trial period, with an agreed upon referral fee if people
> click
> > > > through or buy up? I think your venture would fit our requirements
> for
> > > > ethical advertising,
> > > >
> > > > not sure we're the right audience, but worth trying?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Jonathan Dugan <
> jonathan at clearbits.net
> > > >wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Michael, Tom,
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you for the Wiki listing and the tweet about us.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not exactly sure how we might work together.  I'd like to
> explore
> > > > > possibilities more, possibly by phone if you have time.
> > > > >
> > > > > I wanted to connect because of shared values that we want to
> promote,
> > > > > and from the content on p2pfoundation.net, that you do too.  There
> is
> > > > > a vibrant community here in San Francisco making sustainable
> systems
> > > > > that promote openness and sharing, and community initiatives.  We
> > > > > actively participate in these, for example this upcoming event:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> http://shareable.net/blog/design-4-resilience-thriving-in-an-uncertain-world
> > > > >
> > > > > You already have significant connections with others in this space,
> > > > > and we want to participate.
> > > > >
> > > > > We (ClearBits the company) are focused now primarily on sales and
> > > > > business relationships surrounding our online hosting and
> distribution
> > > > > service.  We have an upload API and hosted solution for flat-rate,
> > > > > low-cost P2P distribution.  If there are ways that you can send
> > > > > potential customers to us, we can provide a referral fee.  We have
> > > > > simple referrer tags for urls and I can send you details if you are
> > > > > interested in setting that up.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Jonathan
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > > Jonathan Dugan, PhD
> > > > > Founder, ClearBits
> > > > > http://www.clearbits.net @clearbits
> > > > > Email: jonathan at clearbits.net @jmdugan
> > > > > Direct: (650) 646-5369  Cell: (650) 799-5369
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >  On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:23:27PM +0700, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > > > > > Dear Jonathan,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > please do not hesitate to send any proposals our way and of
> course,
> > > if we
> > > > > > can help with coverage on your projects, let us know,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm not sure about technical synergies since I'm not very much
> into
> > > > > > filesharing myself, so I copy one of our experts on the matter,
> tom
> > > > > rawlings
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Michel
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Jonathan Dugan <
> > > jonathan at clearbits.net
> > > > > >wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi Micheal,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > We were just pointed to this essay
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-new-social-contract-for-open-media/2010/03/25
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I was not previously aware of the momentum and positive
> orientation
> > > of
> > > > > > > your website and foundation.  We would very much like to
> support
> > > you
> > > > > > > and work closely together.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Have you seen ClearBits?  Previously we were LegalTorrents.
> We're
> > > > > > > offering a hosted solution for P2P distribution, only
> distributing
> > > > > > > open licensed media, and use an in-browser download solution.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'd love to tell you more, and learn what we can do to assist
> you.
> > > > > > > Soon we're launching a blog for ClearBits, and other services
> to
> > > come
> > > > > > > around science, educational and government data distribution.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > > Jonathan
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Jonathan Dugan, PhD
> > > > > > > Founder, ClearBits
> > > > > > > http://www.clearbits.net @clearbits
> > > > > > > Email: jonathan at clearbits.net @jmdugan
> > > > > > > Direct: (650) 646-5369  Cell: (650) 799-5369
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
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