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Mysterious voices echo from an enormous villa footed in the epicenter of ancient Rome. Well-recognized men---men with status and knowledge---are invited in to what seems to be a very private party. The house is owned by Scipio Aemilianus, a member of one of the most powerful Roman families at the time, and a big Greek literature geek. The predominant voice that bounces off the walls of the decadent chambers belongs to Panaetius of Rhodes, the seventh Stoic scholarch. Among the regular listeners, besides Scipio: Polybius the historian and Publius Rutilius Rufus.
This elitist philosophical club, patronized by Scipio who happily paid the bills, would later be known as [The Scipionic Circle](https://stoiccompass.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/the-scipionic-circle/). Discussions in The Circle shaped, twisted and formed the future of both the Roman and Greek world, as Scipio's power grew and eventually even ruled over Greece. Luckily, Panaetius' Stoic influence kept everyone present in the Circle's meetings mesmerized. The Scipionic Cirlce's influence was no doubt very significant in the ancient world, although historians like to debate how direct its impact was.
This elitist philosophical club, patronized by Scipio who happily paid the bills, would later be known as [The Scipionic Circle](https://stoiccompass.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/the-scipionic-circle/). Discussions in The Circle shaped, twisted and formed the future of both the Roman and Greek world, as Scipio's power grew and eventually even ruled over Greece. Luckily, Panaetius' Stoic influence kept everyone present in the Circle's meetings mesmerized, filing off any rough personality edges. The Scipionic Cirlce's influence was no doubt very significant in the ancient world, although historians like to debate how direct its impact was.
Centuries later, at the end of the sixteenth century, similar patterns emerged in Florence. A group of humanists, musicians, poets, politicians and philosophers gathered under the roof of Count Giovanni de'Bardi---yet another wealthy Italian with perhaps too much time on his hands---to discuss, and successfully change, the trends in arts, music and drama. The gathering was known for its famous Florentine guests and would later be known as the [Florentine Camerata](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_Camerata).
The premise of the Camerata was simple. Music had become boring and corrupt, according to the members. They intended the art form to be restored the way the ancient Greeks had styled it. An open view to the composition and the flow of music was the greatest legacy of the Camerata. Although only indirect influence was attributed to them, without the Florentine Camerata, Bach and Mozart would probably never have composed world class musical pieces that tell a story.
Fast forward a couple of more centuries, until the early to mid noughties. This time, we are in London, more specifically inside its plethora of business hubs. These centers took turns hosting the [Extreme Tuesday Club](https://theitriskmanager.com/2019/05/25/the-london-agile-software-camerata/). The Club acted as a platform for software developers at the early beginnings of the agile and extreme programming movement, where ideas were proposed and critically evaluated on a weekly basis.
Again centuries later, we turn our attention to Paris and its bustling cafés, at the very end of the 19th century. Tired of the persistent clinging to classicism, a small group of sculptors, art dealers and painters decided to challenge the Paris Salon art curators by giving birth to an endless slew of new art _-isms_: impressionism, pointillism, cubism, modernism, dadaism. Lively discussions about art and its future were consistently held in cafés, dutifully accompanied by a selection of wine and cigar smoke.
The Parisian avant-garde art movement attracted young talent from within France (Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas) and far beyond it (Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Piet Mondriaan, Wassily Kandinsky). Foreigners like the Dutchman Mondriaan and the Russian Kandinsky would eventually bring back ideas to their homeland to unleash artistic revolutions there, establishing _De Stijl_ and _Bauhaus_.
Fast forward another century, until the early to mid noughties. This time, we are in London, more specifically inside its plethora of business hubs. These centers took turns hosting the [Extreme Tuesday Club](https://theitriskmanager.com/2019/05/25/the-london-agile-software-camerata/). The Club acted as a platform for software developers at the early beginnings of the agile and extreme programming movement, where ideas were proposed and critically evaluated on a weekly basis.
The Extreme Tuesday Club was a unique and fertile testbed that managed to successfully breed Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Kanban and Technical Debt concepts, special mocking techniques, ...---the list is, again, endless. Other like-minded people mirrored The Club elsewhere, resulting in The Sillicon Valley Patterns Group, The Portland Patterns Group, The Salt Lake City Round Table, and so forth.