As promised, here are the materials from the workshop I gave out yesterday at LIFT 08 about Online Communities Design Patterns. The presentation as I’ve said before is still a work in progress since I’ve started it for Web2Expo Berlin last November, so they share quite a lot in common.
S. Fincher, M. Petre, and M. Clark. Springer-Verlag, London, UK, (2001)page 2: patterns as -
ä form, a "packaging", for transfer materials which does not prescribe or patronise and equally does not överwhelm with information".".
D. Schuler. Proceedings of the Conference on Participatory Design (PDC '02) (Malmö, Sweden, June 23-25, 2002), page 434-436. Palo Alto, CA, 2000, CPSR, (2002)