Cultivating Codeless Contributors

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Many hands make light work ~John Heywood

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~Vince Lombardi

First, set the tone of your community.

Ubuntu Code of Conduct

A standard of behaviour

Inclusiveness

Diversity is good! (newbies, minorities, women)

What does your project need?

GUI Artwork

Website or server maintenance

User support

Marketing

What should your Developers be doing?

Developers should be Developing

Not OO.o documents

Srsly.

How to get Artwork?

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase

1. Submit photo, music or video

2. Community selects favourite

3. Winners get kudos and exposure

Great for portfolios!

How to get Documentation?

Provide a space.

Free service: WIkia

Hackfests: Gobby, Wave

Comment your code

Even if you think it's good

How to get Website Content?

CMS don't require code

News feed

Free service: Wordpress.com

How to get server maintenance?

Users donate server space

Experience for junior Sysadmins

How to get support channels?

IRC, Forums, mailing list

Free IRC services: Freenode, OFTC

Free forum/mail service: Google Groups

How to get marketing?

Excite your users.

Expos, demos and fliers

Conference talks

How to get all this to work?

Cat herders.

Someone to coordinate

Ensure communication

Sysadmins → Developers

Developers → Marketing

Marketing → Website

Website → Artwork

Artwork → Developers

How to excite your volunteers?

ACKNOWLEDGE!

SHOW appreciation

Practice time!

Thank you for OSDC!

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Cultivating Codeless Contributors

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