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Over the past few months, several people have been exploring the applications of Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language to endeavours other than architecture.

Peter Lindberg has been concerning himself with the application of patterns to software development. The folks at BlueOxen have been looking at Patterns of community building and collaboration, Mike Lee blogged patterns of introducing change into organizations last summer, and Michael Herman and I took a shot at defining some patterns of Open Space Technology
based on The Nature of Order. We’re not done yet.

(I have to say that pattern languages have not helped the patternlanguage.com people design very good websites)

Perhaps it is time to propose a set of patterns for blogging about patterns?

At any rate, I use this entry more as a bookmark, to gather these conversations into one place for the time being. I’ll shortly add a page on the Parking Lot wiki to extend the collection. In the meantime, what do these pattern conversations mean to you? Are there other places you have seen people talking about patterns?