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Topics you'd be interested in running
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- Put a *face* on your community- How to make your own Avatars & Hackergotchis.
- Bringing game mechanics to open source recruitment- How game mechanics can encourage people to participate in free software. (Starting from real examples like the OpenHatch training missions.)
- Blaming the unknown - A constructive approach to technology
- Enthusiasm Rules - Bringing nonstandard value to your community
- Customer Feedback: Tips, Tricks, and Convincing Your Boss - Evan Hamilton - Best practices for collecting and dealing with customer feedback. Some thoughts on how to convince your boss - though frankly I'd like to know what you all feel YOU need to convince your boss!
- Community Goes Global - The challenges and joys of working with a global community - from dealing with the 24/7 world to managing cultural differences to finding strengths in unexpected places
- Fund raising: What Works catallman - Let's all share our experiences of fund raising; what worked, what didn't, and some good places to start. (I'd like to participate in this one. We just landed a $350K grant from the Knight Foundation, and are in the midst of a $25K fundraising drive using Kickstarter. -Graham)
- Community User Experience Design- Defining key community design practices in terms of UED principles, while creating a new set of methods for our field.
- How do you define what you do effectively?"- I'm struggling to define what I do to those with more traditional, business backgrounds specifically around my "personal" and "professional" relationships. How do you clarify the difference to those who see them as mutually exclusive in terms of relationships and community building?
- Community Architecture - One could say it is not possible to create community, but rather we can only create conditions in which community can more easily form and thrive. So, then, how do we go about designing spaces/experiences that inspire people to gather, share, and create?
- User:Larsk: I would be very interested in this session and be happy to help. Some guys here who have been working with communities have been trying to formulate a model for communities
- Organizing participation in open government andyo - Transparency and participation are a worldwide movement in government. It can work only if the public participates! How can we organize in our communities (geographic or virtual) to reap the promises of the open government movement?
- Health care dev camp andyo - Some organizations may sponsor a code-a-thon to create health care applications. I'm looking for people who have organized code-a-thons or hackathons and may want to give advice, help build, or participate in this one.
- How to connect to potential community members in a fragmented world User:Larsk - with people having much stronger preferences on which on-line channels they use compared with a few years ago, what strategies do you use to connect to potential community members
- Community business models Apply http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/ framework to think through what activities and sources of revenue work together 'or don't'. What does any one element of a community's business model (e.g., supported by advertising) imply for all the other aspects of a community's 'business'? John David Smith
- What Builds Community? Bring your stories, lessons learned and questions to explore. Together we'll map out new ideas, connections and resources. Kristin Lingman
- Engaging local Communities Meetups and co - how to bring and activate local communities to take interest in Open Source and also get started in Communities with contributing to Projects. Marcia Knous and Carsten Book
- Technology stewardship for communities - How to manage all the resources for a community -- as communities sprawl all over the net, is there a tech steward or group of tech stewards who pay attention to how the technology serves the community's sense of being together? John David Smith
- Maker Spaces Tim Pepper Do you work in a shared open collaborative space? Do you have or would you like a "permanent" local Maker Faire style space in which to build things with others? These communities have major issues with real estate and liability insurance expenses...how can these be managed?
Topics you'd like to see
If you're interested in something, can't present it, but would love someone else to do so, list it here.
- What to Do With a Passive Community - Evan Hamilton - How do you create a vibrant community if you have a product that isn't collectively experienced (example: a browser vs a social network)? Should you? This one has plagued me for years and I'd love to talk it out.
- In's and Out's of Running a Non-Profit - Tim Pepper Have you incorporated a non-profit, not-for-profit, co-op, or similar community? Are there things you wish you knew when you started?
