Serial Community Entrepreneur - From Bunkers to Business

Presentation held at New Factory Open May 22nd 2012. This is a story how I ended up starting communities from hackerspaces to Lean Startup

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1. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Serial Community Entrepreneur - From Bunkers to Business - New Factory Open May 22nd 2012 Jarkko Moilanen
2. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Communities • Mode 5w – Tampere hackerspace • Tampere MeeGo Network • MeeGo Network Finland • Devaamo • Survey Studies of Peer Production • Lean Startup Tampere
3. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Bunkers - 2009 1/2009 6/2009 12/2009 Tampere Hackerspace Established 8/2009 - Tuesday meetups - Space hunt - Member hunt Linkku – linux group Tampere Linux install Research In Uni
4. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Street Level - 2010 1/2010 6/2010 12/2010 Registered association 6/2010 Idea of MeeGo Network Finland Established 8/2010 - Tuesday meetups - Demola & Pyynikki - SW oriented, ruby, rails, etc... - Monthly meetups - Demola - Meetup.com - One of the TOP MeeGo dev groups Idea presented at Helsinki MeeGo Network meetup 12/2010
5. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 National year - 2011 1/2011 6/2011 12/2011 Own physical space, Tammela 3/2011 Idea of: Established 1/2012 - Grows to over 100 members. - Monthly meetups - Local Device Program - Umbrella for LMNs, - Paid CM (Hermia) - Apr 2011 - Two-day event - New Factory/Plevna - Over 250 partic. - Community driven RIP RIP
6. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Research / Business - 2012 1/2012 6/2012 12/2012 - Space getting small - members ~20/40 Registered association 4/2012 Lean Startup Tampere Established 5/2012 - Open for all - Monthly meetups - New Factory - Trips, workshops, etc Statistical Studies of Peer Production 3/2012 - Community driven - dev oriented - Open web, data, sw, hw. - At New Factory Hackerspace Finland Summit - At New Factory - Helsinki, Tampere, Jyväskylä, Turku...
7. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Aftermath – For Tampere/Finland • MeeGo created Open Source developer community in Finland • MeeGo Network Finland was unique • Tampere to top 'developer cities' • Better known around world • Started 'Community Manager Manifest' • Companies involved • Volunteers involved • Joint effort • Need paid National community manager?
8. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Aftermath – For developers • United (FLOSS) developers in Tampere/Finland (over company borders) • Networking • Physical 'connection' • Changes to organize events and activity • Gain skills and exchange ideas • Communities come and go, people stay
9. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Aftermath - Personal • Found my 'calling' • Serial community entrepreneur • Focused my PhD • Peer production communities • Funding difficult • Survey Studies of Peer Production • More talented people in my network • Gained experience in community management • Several blog entries • More discussion
10. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Working with communities • Is Inspiring • Is Exciting • But above all, it's fun
11. info@want3d.fi Want3d.fi Peltokatu 31, 33100 Tampere 22/05/2012 Further information • Devaamo Http://devaamo.fi • Community Manager Manifest (Blog) • http://blog.ossoil.com/2012/05/07/community-manager-manifest/ • Survey Studies of Peer Production • http://surveys.peerproduction.net/ • Hackerspace Tampere Http://5w.fi • More questions? • Jarkko Moilanen: jarkko@want3d.fi