Sculpting A Vibrant Community

Slides from our presentation at MozCamp 2012, Singapore on Community Building and Maintenance.

Transcript

2. Text Sculpting a Vibrant Community Ankit Gadgil Sayak Sarkar Mozilla India
3. Community: The dictionary meaning •A group of people having a religion, race, profession or other particular characteristic in common. •A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
4. Vibrant Community !! What’s that? It’s a Community of people:- •With diverse backgrounds and common interest. •Having a sense of family bonding among themselves. •Where people enjoy what they do.
5. Develop ( !Create) • Communities already exist. • We need to recognize and develop them into Vibrant Mozilla Communities.
6. Contributor’s Perspective
7. Why should I contribute?
8. • How do I find my local community? • How do I reach out to them? •Where do I fit in? •Helpful URLs:- •http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org •http://www.mozilla.org/contribute
9. How to get into an existing community?
10. Community Builder’s Perspective
11. The three main ‘How’s • How to expand the community? • How to maintain the community? • How to popularize the community?
12. Getting new people involved
13. Frequent meetings
14. Increasing community interaction.
15. Expanding the community
16. Plan for an event
17. Make it successful
18. Reward..
19. Get together.. Innovate
20. Celebrate !!
21. Identify success metrics & get feedback
22. Cut a cake !!
23. Contact us:- Ankit Gadgil: ankitgadgil@gmail.com @anknite Sayak Sarkar: sayak.bugsmith@gmail.com @sayak_sarkar
24. Got more ideas? Add them to:- http://www.etherpad.mozilla.org/sculpting-a-vibrant- community