Leveraging Community

Remeber our mission statement:

"The a*team is a model of how to work in the open"

"Platform Ops is a model of how to work in the open"

This can only become true if and only if we all commit to community

What can we do?

Encourage community related deliverables
Create community friendly projects
Talk about community

Encouraging Community Deliverables

Find mentors
Encourage hacking
Make it clear there is time for this

Community Friendly Projects

What would an intern do?
Scope is hard to define, not really
A [set of] feature[s], tool, or list of bugs

Talk about community

Add a section to staff meetings
Highlight the benefits
Recognize contribution publicly
Encourage chatter about community

This week we talked about:

Trust
Effective Teams
On-boarding people
Growing people

The End

Leveraging community

By Joel Maher

Leveraging community

How to foster community growth within your team

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Joel Maher

Open Source hacker for the Mozilla project.