Building an Open Community
Building an Open Community
An easy to follow roadmap. Start an open creative community from scratch. Grow it into a big, active, impactful group of contributors.
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An easy to follow book-roadmap to build your community
- Start an open creative community from scratch (just you and an issue you want to address).
- Grow it into an active, big and impactful group of contributors.
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Use the power of open creative communities to make things happen.
It's based on my experience growing Drupal France 2008-2009 and Museomix 2011-2013
It's also based on the repeated formula for instant micro-community launches used with OrsayCommons, ArtGame weekend, Responsive Museum Week, Coding Goûter…
Why this book? Isn't there many books on community building?- This book is a roadmap, so you can start where you are today, and follow the path
- Social networks have totally changed community building - in an unexpected way!
- It has made people meet more in physical spaces, in meetups.
- Events are crucials.
- This book doesn't assume you already have a community. You can start with a community of one, ie. you!
- They are many books out there on community *management*,
- or books that are written as if you already had dozens of people with you and your problem was planning your community in advance.
- But today, your problem is to start your community from scratch.
- Or today, your problem is get it from a dozen of people to many more.
- Do you care today about managing conflicts in a huge mailing list?
- Well, maybe you are not there. Or you are, or will be.
- In all case, what you need is to have a map, starting from where you are *right now*.
- I didn't found a book that was a community building roadmap, so I decided to write it!
- Open Creative ommunities are powerful
- They will turn your idea into reality
- They will make your idea into something better, unexpected, wider and more fun!
- Open Creative Communities are hard to start and grow
- They don't just happen
- Drupal
- Linux
- Wikipedia
- They are many ways to start them,
- They are many people telling you how to *manage* them
- Management is for settled organizations, not for growing communities
- an open community is always growing and shrinking, at the same time
- Open Communities are easier than ever to start and grow
- Because of, you know, that little thing called the Internet :-)
The chapters
- Forewords for the alpha-readers
- Community? What are we talking about here?
- Why this book? Isn’t there many books on community building?
- From you to two: starting a community from scratch
- From ten to open: transparency and inclusion
- From many to massive: close collaboration at scale
- Webography: learning from great articles
Table of Contents
- Forewords for the alpha-readers
- Community? What are we talking about here?
- A quick review of existing types of communities
- open creative communities
- Why this book? Isn’t there many books on community building?
- This book is a roadmap
- This book don’t distinguish between online or offline communities
- But why building open communities?
- From you to two
- Be ultra precise on the issue you want to solve, the frustration you want to lift, the injustice you want to stop.
- The mullet website
- have a short, simple, I-could-tell-it-to-you-in-a-casual-conversation manifesto
- Use an event to focus everybody on the core issue
- I heard I need to seed my community for months and months?
- The mullet website
- From ten to open
- when is the time right for opening?
- Be radically transparent
- Have every conversation in public by default
- Give new comers ways to listen, to learn the culture
- Be radically inclusive
- Be polite!
- Represent your community at events, talks, blogs…
- Host meetups
- Tell the story of how things are coming together
- Community platform
- Don’t act like if you had 1 millions members
- From many to massive
- Fish for diversity
- You’ll have to account for various languages : English is the international language, but local communities will want to do things in their own native language too
- Identity and values are key
- Close collaboration on a massive scale
- Help growing smaller inside communities
- Call for help!
- Built up simple[what does simple mean???] programs to suck in volunteers
- Give the power/responsibility to represent your community to everyone that want to do it
- a community is always growing and shrinking, at the same time
- Webography
- Dunbar neocortex groups and language
- increasing FOSS participation
- CatB and the good critical article
- Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
- your community is your best feature
- Open Advice Book
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