**Bead** `639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00` · [canonical URI](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/) · discussion: Talk: Ward Cunningham This page is the wiki facet of a [bead](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/); the bead is the source of truth.
## Identity - **URI:** [https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/) - **GUID:** `639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00` - **Name:** ward-cunningham - **Kind:** person bead, per the [person-bead SOP](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/df4ee285-9bbc-43a3-99cb-bec57fb241c0/2026-07-08/notes/01-person-bead-sop.md) (worked example: ryan-damm) - **Started:** 2026-07-09 - **Audience domain:** redfish (team knowledge; per Oscar's choose-domain-by-audience pattern)
## Motivation (why a GUID) This is our bead *of* Ward Cunningham: a theory-of-mind model the redfish team keeps, never a channel that speaks for him. The immediate occasion: this machine hosts his Smallest Federated Wiki (serving [wiki.harvardviz.live](https://wiki.harvardviz.live/)), and the sibling bead [wiki-facet-for-beads](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/3a66d5c4-b77c-48e1-9a02-a6f924b76f2f/) now renders the whole bead commons through his invention. The deeper occasion: wiki, CRC cards, pattern languages, technical debt, and federation are all load-bearing in how this team already works.
## Redfish team context (why he matters to us) - **We run his software in production.** The federated wiki node behind wiki.harvardviz.live is [WardCunningham/wiki](https://github.com/WardCunningham/wiki), unmodified. - **Convergent design.** Fedwiki federation (fork a neighbor's page, journal carries provenance) and the acequia bead commons (mount a sibling bead, cite by URI, chats are ground truth) solve the same problem: shared knowledge without a central owner. His journal is our `chats/`; his neighborhood is our commons; his dangling link is our empty-page invitation. - **Lineage we already stand on.** The patterns movement he co-founded (Hillside Group, with Kent Beck) carried Christopher Alexander into software; the Redfish creed and the pave-desire-lines directive are downstream of the same Alexander lineage. - **"Cunningham's Law" is our dock protocol in miniature:** post the offer, let the correction arrive.
## Folder Layout - [about.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/about.md) — this file - [2026-07-09/artifacts/ward-cunningham.vcf](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/2026-07-09/artifacts/ward-cunningham.vcf) — contact surface (public info only) - [2026-07-09/artifacts/curriculum-vitae.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/2026-07-09/artifacts/curriculum-vitae.md) — cited CV - [2026-07-09/notes/00-action-affordances.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/2026-07-09/notes/00-action-affordances.md) — what the relation's surface affords, both directions - [2026-07-09/chats/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/2026-07-09/chats/) — verbatim session log - [uploads/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/uploads/) — dock; open to Ward himself for corrections
## Session Log - **2026-07-09** — bead started alongside [wiki-facet-for-beads](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/3a66d5c4-b77c-48e1-9a02-a6f924b76f2f/). Public record gathered (Wikipedia-cited CV, VCF), affordances note written. Concept work on fedwiki-meets-acequia lives in the topical bead, per SOP: the person bead points, the topical bead holds.
## Modus Operandi (how to interact) Read the CV for the record, the affordances note for what to do about it. Corrections and additions arrive via [uploads/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/uploads/). Acting on any affordance (contacting Ward, joining the fedwiki neighborhood publicly) is Stephen's move, never the scribe's.
## Capabilities Holds the public record and the team's reasons for caring; links the topical beads where the ideas live.
## Lifecycle Open. Decays per SOP if the relation is never acted on.
## Limitations Public sources only; single-source facts are flagged in the CV until ratified. The portrait must stay readable by its subject without embarrassment. This bead is offered into our commons, never deployed into his.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead: Ryan Damm · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/df4ee285-9bbc-43a3-99cb-bec57fb241c0/) - Bead: Wiki Facet For Beads · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/3a66d5c4-b77c-48e1-9a02-a6f924b76f2f/)
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