LESSONS ABOUT COMMUNITY FROM SCIENCE FICTION Dawn M. Foster Director ¡of ¡Community ¡at ¡Puppet ¡Labs @geekygirldawn dawn@puppetlabs.com ¡ Presenta(on ¡(with ¡notes) ¡available ¡at ¡h3p://fastwonderblog.com/speaking/
WHOAMI • Geek, traveler, reader • Past 13 years doing community & open source • Read 73 books last year, mostly sci-fi / fantasy • I keep a list: Photos by Josh Bancroft, Don Park http://fastwonderblog.com/about/reading/
DON’T PANIC Most things will work out if you have smart, flexible people in your community.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE Many people working together on a common goal.
LIKE FAMILIES You can’t fully understand unless you are part of the community.
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED Bring new community members into your collective for new ideas
NO MINIONS Community members are valuable, don’t treat them like minions.
NO RAGE Take time to cool off and don’t participate when you are angry.
RECOGNITION Do good things for others and recognize their contributions.
INDIVIDUALISM Open source communities are filled with crazy (but awesome) individualists doing interesting things.
SPECIALIZATION IS FOR INSECTS The best community members are the ones who can help in a wide variety of ways
COOL TECHNOLOGY Participation in communities is a great excuse to play with new technologies.
TRAINING Participation in open source communities gives people real-life, on the “job” training that can help them get work later.
LEARN FROM OTHERS Get new ideas and insights from other people and other communities.
GOOD INTENTIONS Assume community members have good intentions and focus on education and improvement. “Undomesticated equines could not drag me away.”
MORE DIVERSITY Focus on the ideas and work together with people from diverse backgrounds.
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
COMMUNITY METRICS Measure community activity to track progress, identify issues and recognize great community members
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.
BOLDLY GO Travel to strange new worlds and meet interesting people
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
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