Join
Join the community for free or as a full paying member
- Associate: free membership with access to Groups and to some resources and content.
- Member: paying member with access to the resources and valuable content. As a Member, you support the Metaphorum community and you help to promote the ideas and concepts.
Special Interest Groups
You are invited to participate in the Groups and shape the face of our community.
VSM and AI
The AI group has a monthly meeting – for details see: Events.
Between the meetings, the group coordinates through a Discord server.
About the SIGs
SIGs are designed for autonomy, i.e. they are self organised and define their membership rules, organisation, purpose and objectives.
To become a MPH SIG, the group needs to maintain a few standards. It should be related to MPH; the SIG purpose should strengthen the overall purpose of MPH. It publishes the following information:
- mission statement
membership rules / who can attend
channels
language
tech platform(s)
meetings / how to join / where are the meetings announced
contact person(s) & method
Creative Commons
The published content of the SIG should follow the Metaphorum policy that the content on the Website is licensed as Creative Commons. The SIG decides which version of creative commons applies for pieces of content.
LinkedIn Group
VSM
This group contains a general discussion about the Viable System Model.
VSM Case Studies
This group distributes case studies and experiences around the Viable System Model
The Metaphorum Archives
In 2006 the Metaphorum community began using the Listserv technology to communicate between members. The service was kindly hosted by the University College Dublin (UCD).
Known as the UCD-STAFFORDBEER ARCHIVES, the Forum was dedicated to the work of Stafford Beer and operated between May 2006 – November 2016. Although still technically active, the Listserv is now rarely used and contemporary discussions have migrated to other forms such as Linkedin.