Source use and limits
The sources below shaped the connected language. Their practical contributions, evidence and limits remain distinct. The detailed comparisons in each pattern’s SoTA-Echoing section should be used when a source-specific choice matters.
| Source family | Contribution retained in this edition | Boundary, alternative and return |
|---|---|---|
| David Spinks, The Business of Belonging (2021) | A purposeful offer, manual early organising, workable participation, recognition, organising support, provision and accounts of value. These inform CB.1–12. | Treat numerical anecdotes and company examples as historical source accounts. Growth, commercial retention and visible activity do not define every useful contribution. Compare resources, services and smaller voluntary arrangements against the actual need. |
| Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Phil Reid and Claude Bruderlein, Communities of practice within and across organizations, second edition (2023) | Positive forms of learning through practice, activities and relationships, shared repertoire, reciprocal comparison, boundary work, collective stewardship, value inquiry and renewal. Temporary participant groups also supply shared observation and support. These contributions inform the corresponding methods, especially CB.4/5/7/10/11/14–16. | Use these forms when joint participation helps. Their community-of-practice focus does not require communication for every wider cultural purpose. Treat development dimensions as optional, and use C.28/RMP for a question that depends on causal explanation. |
| Community Canvas Guidebook (2017) | Historical organising questions about common decisions, mandate, mixed local and common responsibility, and conflicts involving decision-makers, developed in CB.8/13. | An informal repertoire supplies options. The actual arrangement needs a valid mandate, feasible operations and correction; a new body is unnecessary where an adequate owner can decide. |
| Core Protocols, linked in CB.13:4.5.1 | A connected decision option for an adopting small team. | Its participation obligations need explicit acceptance; this is not the default governance of a voluntary community. |
| A. Levenchuk’s community ontology and systemicity essays (September 2024), read with C.36 | Cultural contribution can develop carriers of a practice without a communicating collective or one collective agent. CB.1 and the independent-use branch make that choice practical. | A conceptual distinction does not establish the effectiveness of an intervention. Obtain the method, learning, provision and use observations that the selected contribution needs. |
| Research and practitioner reports used by individual patterns | Work on participation rules, appeals, context and repeated action qualifies the mechanisms and evidence in CB.8/12/13. The Duolingo contributor-programme announcement gives a historical account of changed production conditions in CB.9. | Retain the actual population, observations and limitations. Moderator reports, written rules, self-reported habits and an organisation’s explanation answer different questions from experienced fairness, automatic performance or causal effectiveness. Follow each body’s exact source and comparison. |
| FPF Core and the domain suppliers below | Cultural distinctions, useful-contribution comparison, actual work arrangements, learning provision, professional-method development, evidence, capacity and resource reasoning. | Reuse the needed substantive result. A reference alone does not obtain qualified work, authority, access or an operating service. |
Source returns: The Business of Belonging; Communities of practice guidebook, second edition; Community Canvas; community ontology; systemicity discussion.
The Guidebook adaptations are attributed to its four authors and retain CC BY-NC 4.0 as identified in the affected patterns. The constructed cases and connections are developed here. Other third-party contributions retain the terms and qualifications stated at their source returns. The edition’s original content has the separate licence stated in Edition and use.