CB.9:1 - Problem frame

Use this pattern when a useful community activity depends on contributions that have not been secured, when organisers are carrying work beyond what they agreed, or when a sponsor’s conditions change what participants can expect. A room is paid for but nobody can prepare the session; several departments expect different results from one organiser; a voluntary contribution has become a service with fixed deadlines.

The subject is the arrangement that provides labour, money, access and other resources for cultural or community work. The move is to connect a bounded promise to willing contributions, effective authority and terms that the parties can sustain. Community Building includes independent carriers of practice: maintaining a public guide can need this arrangement even when its users never meet.

The first useful result is an offer that can be delivered for a stated period: what will be provided, by whom, under which conditions, what participants and supporters receive, and what will change if support falls short. A smaller activity, a paid service, a different source of support or a decision to end an unsupported promise can be the result.

The intended user organises the activity and can obtain decisions from resource owners and affected contributors. The pattern uses accounting and operating results where calculation or scheduling needs specialist work.

Ordinary non-use. An already authorised, adequately provided activity can use its existing arrangements. If the remaining question is the value of the activity, use CB.10. If nobody can yet explain what contribution is worth supporting, return to CB.1 before seeking a larger budget.