The Consensus 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 OpenChaos U23 Sine Curve	Consensus Democracy Command sudo Responsibilty Debate Culture Anti-Bikeshed Private Talk	Old Hardware Key Club Mate

Problem

You need a group decision and want to make sure no one gets left behind.

Implementation

Use the weekly plenum for discussion. Don’t take votes — discuss until everyone agrees. For some problems this pattern is the best.

References

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/9897224/1003Building-a-Hacker-Space#page=56