SLIDE 1 LESSONS ABOUT COMMUNITY FROM SCIENCE FICTION
Presenta(on ¡(with ¡notes) ¡available ¡at ¡h3p://fastwonderblog.com/speaking/
Dawn M. Foster
Director ¡of ¡Community ¡at ¡Puppet ¡Labs @geekygirldawn dawn@puppetlabs.com ¡
SLIDE 2 WHOAMI
- Geek, traveler, reader
- Past 13 years doing
community & open source
mostly sci-fi / fantasy
http://fastwonderblog.com/about/reading/
Photos by Josh Bancroft, Don Park
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DON’T PANIC
Most things will work out if you have smart, flexible people in your community.
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YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Many people working together on a common goal.
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LIKE FAMILIES
You can’t fully understand unless you are part of the community.
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YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED
Bring new community members into your collective for new ideas
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NO MINIONS
Community members are valuable, don’t treat them like minions.
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NO RAGE
Take time to cool off and don’t participate when you are angry.
SLIDE 9 RECOGNITION
Do good things for
their contributions.
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INDIVIDUALISM
Open source communities are filled with crazy (but awesome) individualists doing interesting things.
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SPECIALIZATION IS FOR INSECTS
The best community members are the ones who can help in a wide variety of ways
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COOL TECHNOLOGY
Participation in communities is a great excuse to play with new technologies.
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TRAINING
Participation in open source communities gives people real-life, on the “job” training that can help them get work later.
SLIDE 14 LEARN FROM OTHERS
Get new ideas and insights from other people and
SLIDE 15 GOOD INTENTIONS
Assume community members have good intentions and focus on education and improvement.
“Undomesticated equines could not drag me away.”
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MORE DIVERSITY
Focus on the ideas and work together with people from diverse backgrounds.
SLIDE 17 MORE WOMEN
Encourage women in our field and get more women speaking at our events
www.usenix.org/blog/my-daughters-high-school-programming-teacher
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COMMUNITY METRICS
Measure community activity to track progress, identify issues and recognize great community members
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NOT AS EASY AS IT SEEMS
Community management is not all parties and fun travel. It’s also a lot of real work and sometimes involves being the bad cop.
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BOLDLY GO
Travel to strange new worlds and meet interesting people
SLIDE 21 THANK YOU
Contact ¡info: ¡Dawn ¡Foster @geekygirldawn dawn@puppetlabs.com fastwonderblog.com
Some of my favorite modern sci-fi / fantasy authors: Hugh Howey Lois McMaster Bujold Brandon Sanderson
