[ripe-list] You are not alone: RIPE Community Resilience in a Pandemic

Dear colleagues and friends,

I’ve been missing you for a whole year;
it’s been a demanding and painful period for many of us.

In addition to being networkers with an important job of maintaining
resiliency of the Internet infrastructure, RIPE Community is a
collection of human beings; I was wondering how are we taking care of
our own "capacity to recover quickly from difficulties".

That's why I wanted to reach out and say: you are not alone!
... but, it turned out that I had so much more to share!

While I was struggling to organise the many topics of what pandemic
resilience might mean to the RIPE community, it occurred to me to map
the classification of universal needs - illustrated by the popular
Maslow’s pyramid - to the OSI Layers model, familiar to all networkers:

Layer 1: Physical / Physiological needs
Layer 2: Data Link / Safety needs
Layer 3: Network / Belonging needs
Layer 4: Transport / Esteem needs (ACK = acknowledgement)
Layer 5: Session / Need for Understanding (cognitive)
Layer 6: Presentation / Need for Beauty (aesthetic)
Layer 7: Application / Need for (self) actualisation
Layer 8: Financial / Need for Contribution (community-actualisation)
Layer 9: Political / Need for Justice (cultural perpetuity)

Please find the first two articles on RIPE Labs:

Article 0 = introduction:

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/you-are-not-alone-ripe-community-resilience

Layer 1: Physical / Physiological needs:

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-community-resilience-physical-layer

Stay tuned for the next layers!

And please do share your BCP on how you are coping!

Wishing you health and well-being,
Vesna Manojlovic
--
Community Builder
RIPE NCC