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10. Questions?
Mike Bradshaw
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invited to give a non-technical talk to end the day, on the topic of Community!\n\nPython Suomi is young. Only 6 months old.\nChance to “DoStuff” - Infamous function\n\nWhat is community?\n\n
Community Shepard for HammerKit.\nWhat is community?\nGroup of people gather around some Common thing (social object)\n\nThese are some different communities I am involved in. \n* Physical spaces, \n* meetups or events\n* Global or Local or Local of global\nOnline, common ideas,\n
Some thoughts, may be old news, but lets start the discussion.\nMostly asking questions!\n\nMust have a common place:\neither online or physical\nDiscussion, physically in same place\nmeet periodically!!\n\nConsistent\n\n
made up of different people (ages, genders, roles). \n\ndo you want to exclude certain groups?\n* noobs?\n* commercial?\n* annoying ADHD/autistic geeks?\n\nReasons to exclude:\nnot enough bandwidth to cope with their problems\n
Python communities have reputation for being friendly, but trolls will try and sneak in.\n\nBe ready, think how to react, make it so it is not fun for them\n-> they leave to some other site.\n\nBeware -> noobs, may not realise they are exhibiting trollish behavior\n\ninfighting! Religious fundamentalists (Vi vs Emacs). Ruby\n
Community members: Levels of engagement\n\nPig or Chicken - Breakfast\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig\ncommitted or involved\nSeagull managers - fly in, make noise, leave lots of shit and leave\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_manager\n Ken Blanchard's 1985 book Leadership and the One Minute Manager: "Seagull managers fly in, make a lot of noise, dump on everyone, then fly out."\n\nGoats & sheep - Terry Pratchet’s Small Gods\n
Community growth.\n\nWhich one do we want?\n\nBe aware that natural for size to change, don’t panic. \nAs long as more than board it is a community.\n\nHow to attract members?\nDo we want to?\nWhat should we be doing?\n
What’s next?\ncontinue with activities:\n * online\n * more meetups\n * hack-days?\n\nBeware of being too excited by today!!\nImportant thing is that events happen, NOT that they are big or have famous names (Zuckerberg was undergrad attempting to score)\n
Kittens!\n\nSteve Yegge - Stop working on Cat Picture sharing apps\n