Handcrafting Community [WebDev42 2013-07]
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W e b D e v 4 2 ° , H o b a r t , A u s t r a l i aJuly 2013
Carina C. Zona
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"Handcrafting"Community...?
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Research.
• Presentation
• Conversation
• Exchange
• Brainstorm
• Crank up momentum
TONIGHT IS...WHAT, EXACTLY?
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HANDCRAFTING COMMUNITY
Craft career
and profession
and industry
by crafting colleagues
and future competitors
(collaborators)
(referrals)
with sense of shared purpose
and of belonging
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Community can be counted on
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Communityis self-sustaining
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GUILD SYSTEM
Apprentice
Journeyman
Master
See
Do
Teach
Entrant
Contributor
Leader
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• Satisfying
• Growing
• Opportunity
• Mentorship
• Modeling
HANDCRAFTING US
Create a career arc that gives you something to give back.
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The power ofgetting people into a room
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Build &share
network
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Make an introduction
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Words of wisdom:
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"If you feel a certain way, you're not the only one."
"You think you're throwing a birthday party, where only your friends are going to actually come. You don't expect anyone to show up."
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"Put your enthusiasm on display"
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"Do expect people to be generous
in their support"
Mentors gave lots of advance time, mentorship. Then gave access to their networks.
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"Showing that you have your shit together —that this clearly will be happening again — makes people comfortable with leaping in."
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"Tell everyone you know. Make it easy for them to tell everyone they know."
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And make personal invites
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"If you already know everyonein the room, it's a clique.
Not a community"
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"Open source the community"
RailsBridgeRailsGirlsPython Software Foundation
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"'That's great. Help do that with someone else.'"
Decide what's the essential of the vision. It's okay to say no to offers & requests that are too far afield from that.
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Create leadership mastery.
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Self-replicate
as leadersas communities
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Make way for others
one person carrying too much weight will burn out; thing fizzles w/o them.fostering peers/replacements before you need them assures that people can take care of their needs & keep contributingleaders have more stake in success & more enthusiasm for pursuing it; delegating meaningful roles -> investment in deepening commitments
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Successful community?Seed more like it.
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"Yes, And..."
meet a request for help with a better offer, if you can
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Lend access to brand, network, &
infrastructure
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Cross-pollinate
- if you don't have enough people to sustain niche community (yet), connect with communities of similar vision even if not similar implementation. piggyback. bootstrap.- do it also out of humility (like lightning talks, it's opportunity to have interesting surprises)
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Riff on what'salready working
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Learn from the greats of
community building
Religious organizations have finely-honed success models. Look locally. Who's rocking that one?
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META-COMMUNITY
•Python Software Foundation
•Fiscal sponsors
•Make it easy to piggyback on you've built
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COMPANIES, CONTRIBUTE
• Sponsorships
• Donations
• Matching
• Venues
• Co-working
• Publicity
• Scholarships
• +1 to Employees' time
• Swag (*cough*)