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

What an interesting approach, Vesna - linking Maslow and OSI. And
matching their respective levels. 8-)

Sometimes things are so crystal clear that they are hardly visible.

Thanks for sharing!

On 22.03.2021 08:20, Vesna Manojlovic wrote:
> 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