I've been in various discussions over the years about how to either create or do-better-at group-forming for support groups, collaborations, scenes, hubs/nexus, movement, or innovation, huge invention to solve grand challenges, or progress and evolution via collective intelligence and collective action...

• or even mostly status or meaning....

It's often unclear whether the participants in a given discussion are sharing the same vision, which reduces the odds of creating a plausible promise...

Because a pattern successful for 1 outcome is not necessarily going to help a different one.

My focus is on the digital garden collective intelligence → huge invention → progress → evolution side. https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1355996204883181569

• Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Network Enlightenment

List of candidates to categorize

(starting chronologically) (combining too many candidates, will probably drop some)

2012: Embassy Network

2011: Leverage Research

2011: Center for Effective Altruism

2005: Singularity Institute (which spawned CFAR and MIRI)

1970: Xerox PARC Research Lab

1960: Andy Warhol's Factory

1940: Inklings

1920: Algonquin Round Table

1920: Bauhaus

1910: Bloomsbury Group

1860: Impressionists

1840: American Bloomsbury

1770: Lunar Society (Enlightenment)

1660: Royal Society of London

1640: Invisible College

1580: Florentine Camerata

1450: Florence (Leonardo da Vinci)

1417?: Republic Of Letters

-400: Athens

Things that don't seem appropriate to include

1961: Moon Mission

1942: Manhattan Project