Session Ideas 2009
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Topics you'd be interested in running
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- Free Software marketing, handing free software FUD from proprietary evangelists on a practical level (Knut Yrvin)
- Social Media Snake Oil- We all know businesses NEED to use social media, right? Or do they? This session challenges the new 'conventional' wisdom to discuss which social media tools business should...and should not be using...and how to use them. (Mark Williams)
- Managing Burnout (Jono Bacon)
- Collaborative Design Workflow (Jono Bacon)
- Conflict Resolution Roundtable (Jono Bacon)
- Playing into the Future! a project jam - Create a collaborative project for the future, and dreamfish. (Mei Lin Fung and Tiffany von Emmel)
- Effectively Communicating Ideas/Goals (Joshua Jackson)
- Efficient Online Meetings: Not An Oxymoron (Mel Chua)
- The 5 types of newbies and how to Make Them Awesome (Mel Chua)
- Elevator pitches for community folks, OR: Explaining to your parents exactly what it is you do (Mel Chua)
- What I Wish I'd Known When I Started, The Roundtable (Mel Chua)
- Failboat Sharing - come tell your hardest lessons learned here; we'll all agree to keep this session confidential. (Mel Chua)
- Consumers in to Contributors - Teaching the 'participate or DIE!' mentality. (Karsten Wade)
- Architecting Communities - Intentional in more than words. (Karsten Wade)
- Sharing Leadership - Hard, worthwhile, but hard ... but worthwhile ... especially when sharing from a for-profit perspective. (Karsten Wade)
- Community education: Role of documentation and educational materials in community work (Andy Oram)
- Collective Intelligence remote-control interface for rapid aggregation, analysis, drill-down presentation, ranking, and scoring of participants' proposals emanating from small discussion groups into the larger open space presentations and evaluations. Optimizations for accelerating innovation discovery, refinement, and development. (Rich Reader)
- Re-inventing in Established Communities (Danese Cooper)
- DOSGA - Distributed Open Space Grid Architecture using online survey to collect participant preference scores regarding likelihood of attending a session (Rich Reader)
- The If You Build It They Will Come Myth and other pitfalls of infatuation with technology (Leisa Fearing)
- Community strategy and execution: Five years of best practices in building the Drupal community (Kieran Lal)
- Tools of the Trade: How do you manage your community and what tools do you use? (Matt Ray)
- "topics you'd like to see" suggestion rolled into this: Taming the Rolodex: How do you keep track of so many contacts?
- Membership management software: members, payments, seminars/talk RSVP
- Open discussion/roundtable format, looking for more hosts
- Balancing Commerce & Community: Commercial Open Source (Matt Ray)
- Community Layers - Just how many kinds of community are there, and does it matter? (Simon Phipps)
- How to involve non-technical users in a technical community & have them become productive. (Pete Graner)
- PR for Communities: how to do it, how to adjust for changing news web (Josh Berkus) (Saturday Only)
- Keeping The Jerks from Destroying Your Community Round Table (Josh Berkus) (Saturday Only)
- Democracy Now or Never? Benevolent Dictators vs. Democratic organization in communities, or how do we outgrow the old farts and keep the project together? (Josh Berkus) (Saturday Only)
- Learning To Love Agile: How agile development is the best thing you can do for your community by someone who loves to hate it. More at http://bit.ly/1BsH1 (Sara Ford)
- 10 Ways to Destroy Your Community (Josh Berkus) (Saturday Only) (Karsten suggested it would be fun to do a modified version of this for the CLS)
- Ways to Encourage Minority Contributors: how can you get more women, Africans, Middle Easterners, seniors and other groups involved in your project? (Josh Berkus) (Saturday Only)
- Women in Technology possibly with the above - possibly on it's own (Saturday Only) (Jessica Rand, Courtney Draper, Mark Terranova from GidgetKitchen.org)
- Managing the Corps: how to keep the money and resources flowing while not letting them take over your project (Josh Berkus) (Saturday Only)
- What Color is your Community? Open Source, Inner Source, User Source: Strengths and weaknesses, goals and gains of different community types (jrep 23:04, 4 July 2009 (UTC))
- Free Software Non-profit issues (see http://www.flossfoundations.org): (Dave Neary can co-ordinate)
- 501(c)3, 501(c)5 or umbrella organisation?
- Community governance structures
- Trademarks and community building
- Fundraising, getting & keeping donors
- Paid employees and volunteers - defusing potential conflict over incentives
- Spending money to grow community: the good, the bad, the ugly
- Bringing community together: best practices for organising conferences and summits
- Historical review of how, when and why some projects forked, and what happened then. (Mozilla/Firefox, Mambo/Joomla, SER/OpenSER, Debian/Corel/Lindows/.../Ubuntu, ... Personal interest is the current situation of MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB, OurDelta, XtraDB...) (Henrik Ingo)
- Using video to communicate and build community (Deirdré Straughan)
- Adventures in compromise: building communities by committee (Jeff Osier-Mixon)
- Building an open, non-commercial community sponsored by a commercial entity (Jeff Osier-Mixon)
- Identifying Value-Add: what my open-source-based community offers that isn't already out there (Jeff Osier-Mixon)
- Mutually Beneficial, tools that harness community involvement through mutually beneficial output. (Mikeal Rogers)
- In Search of the Perfect Open Source Community Model (Cedric Thomas, Gael Blondelle)
- Running a blogging campaign, interacting with different sub-communities of blogggers and some of the technical issues involved as an extra. (Jure Cuhalev)
- Community Managers Don't Manage Communities (Thomas Knoll)
- In Communities Scaling Does Not Equal Automation (Thomas Knoll)
- Testing in the Mozilla Community (Tim Riley)
- Politics 2.0 or how politicians "use" communities (José del Moral)
- Managing the weird hours: how do you handle late-night flamewars, weekend conferences, and all the other thigns falling outside the 9-5 job if you do community mgt for pay? (Kirrily Robert)
- Community Cross-over - How to encourage a healthy contribution approach across multiple development groups(Tara Spalding)
- Crowdsourcing Cures for Enterprise Community Management Headaches - How to Overcome Objections, Navigate Thorny Issues and Get Past Roadblocks (Ted Hopton)
- Getting the word out that "regular" people can use linux based apps (or What I Learned During My First Exposure to Ubuntu) [Francine Gordon]
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.
- Effects of economic downturn on role and health of online communities (Andy Oram)
- Open/participatory government (Government 2.0) and role of communities (Andy Oram)
- Rewarding contributors: Best practices, worst practices, whether to do so at all, and if so, how? (Angie Byron)
- Starting a Volunteer-Run Free Software Conference
- Mixing Agile/SCRUM development with Open Source project: did anybody try this and how did it work out?
- i18n and communities: building bridges across language barriers
- Contributor-friendly development and collaboration applications and tools (tired of using different login credentials and interface styles for version control, mailing list, issue tracking, wiki, chat, forums, documentation, etc?)
- What are the common tools that Community Managers depending for successfully interacting with users? Tools could include: one-stop portal, registration/onboarding, twiki, self help etc. any experiences to share? (Srinivas Vadhri)
