The Strong Personalities Pattern

This page is a part of Design Patterns.

Its content is derived from the presentation "Building a Hacker Space" by Jens Ohlig and Lars Weiler.

Sustainability Patterns	Independence Patterns	Regularity Patterns	Conflict Resolution Patterns	Creative Chaos Patterns
Infrastructure Grace Hopper Community Critical Mass Strong Personalities Charitable Member	Landlord and Neighbourhood Anti-Roommate Séparée Kitchen Coziness Shower Membership Fees Anti-Sponsoring	Plenum Tuesday Sticky OpenChaos U23 Sine Curve	Consensus Democracy Command sudo Responsibility Debate Culture Anti-Bikeshed Private Talk Spooky Action Anti-Pattern	Old Hardware Key Club Mate The Library Pattern Flat Surface

Problem

Nothing gets done. You all want the hackerspace, but it’s so hard to get off your asses.

Implementation

Look for strong personalities as members of your original group. You will need people with experience in building structures. Look for people who have authority (and get respect), not for people who use authority (and get laughed at).

References

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/9897224/1003Building-a-Hacker-Space#page=21