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    --- title: Heartbeat --- ## Heartbeat ### Motivation This pattern can help project participants stay in touch, and stay motivated. ### Context A number of people have a shared interest, and have connected with each other about it. However, they are not going to spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week working together, either because they are busy with other things, or because working separately on some tasks is vastly more efficient. ### Forces > ![image](images/differentiation.png) **Differentiation**: the time we spend together isn’t all equally meaningful. > ![image](images/entropy.png) **Entropy**: something needs to hold the project together, or it will fall apart. ### Problem How will the effort be sustained and coordinated sufficiently? How do we know this an active collaboration, and not just a bunch of people milling about? Is there a *there, there?* ### Solution People seem to naturally gravitate to something with a pulse. *Once a day* (stand-ups), *once a week* (meetings), or *once a year* (conferences, festivals) are common variants. When the project is populated by more than just a few people, it’s likely that there will be several <span><span>Heartbeats</span></span>, building a sophisticated polyrhythm. A well-running project will feel “like an improvisational jazz ensemble” <span class="citation">\[1\]</span>. Much as the band director may gesture to specific players to invite them to solo or sync up, a project facilitator may craft individual emails to ask someone to lead an activity or invite them to re-engage. Two common rhythm components are weekly synchronous meetings with an open agenda, combined with *ad hoc* meetings for focused work on <span><span>A specific project</span></span>. The precise details will depend on the degree of integration required by the group. ### Rationale The project’s heartbeat is what sustains it. Just as *people matter more than code* <span class="citation">\[2\]</span>, so does the life of the working group matter more than mechanics of the work structure. Indeed, there is an quick way to do a reality check and find the project’s strongest pulse: the activities that sustain a healthy project should sustain us, too (cf. <span><span>Carrying capacity</span></span>). ### Resolution Noticing when a new <span><span>Heartbeat</span></span> is beginning to emerge is a way to be aware of the shifting priorities in the group, and contributes to further **differentiation**. This may ultimately be a good source of new patterns. On the other hand, if a specific activity is no longer sustaining the project, stop doing it, much as you would move an out-of-date pattern to the <span><span>Scrapbook</span></span> in order to make room for other concerns. The power of the <span><span>Heartbeat</span></span> is that the project can be as focused and intensive as it needs to be, working against **entropy** in the ways that start to be required as time goes by. ### Example 1 The yearly in-person gathering, Wikimania, is the most visible example of a <span><span>Heartbeat</span></span> for the Wikimedia movement.[^fn1] may run additional in-person get-togethers.[^fn2] Also of note is the twice-yearly call for proposals for individual engagement grants.[^fn3] other shorter cycles. Each day a highly-vetted Featured Article appears on the front page of Wikipedia, and is circulated to a special-purpose mailing list.[^fn4]<sup>,</sup>[^fn5]<sup>,</sup>[^fn6] articles for deletion lasts at least seven days.[^fn7] ![image](images/kapisa.jpg) *University Farm: al-Biruni University, Kapisa province, Afghanistan.* ### Example 2 Although it may sound quaint, some variant of the University Farm could help to physically sustain peeragogues, while putting the project’s <span><span>Heartbeat</span></span> in tune with that of the seasons. In the current distributed mode, we tend our window boxes and allotment gardens. New developments should unfold in a *logical order growing out of the needs of the community* <span class="citation">\[3\]</span>. ### What’s Next in the Peeragogy Project > Actual meeting times to be added Identifying and fostering new <span><span>Heartbeats</span></span> and new working groups can help make the community more robust. This is the time dimension of spin-off projects described in <span><span>Reduce, reuse, recycle</span></span>. ### References 1. David M. Dikel, David Kane, and James R. Wilson. 2001. *Software architecture: Organizational principles and patterns*. Pearson Education. 2. Linus Torvalds and Steven Vaughan-Nichols. 2011. Linus Torvalds’s Lessons on Software Development Management. *Input Output*. Retrieved from <http://web.archive.org/web/20131021211847/http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440> 3. Booker T Washington. 1901. *Up from slavery*. Doubleday & Company, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [^fn1]: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania> [^fn2]: <http://wikiconferenceusa.org/> [^fn3]: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> [^fn4]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article> [^fn5]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates> [^fn6]: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l> [^fn7]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion>

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