This document provides best practices for effective community engagement in 3 stages: 1) Build your brand and recognition through small contributions, 2) Open up your work by presenting at meetups and publishing materials, and 3) Achieve "community nirvana" by becoming a meetup organizer. It also outlines plans for engaging the Google Cloud Community, including maximizing diverse membership, joint events, and activities like extended sessions, study groups, and webinars.

1. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
EFFECTIVE BEST PRACTICES
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2. 101 - BUILD YOUR BRAND & RECOGNITION
• Start small. Make yourself known within the community – attend
popular tech meetups & participate in hackathons
• Open source contributions – Start contributing to Github projects
(if not code, at least docs); even better start a FOSS project
• Start documenting – Make public gists of things your learn and
contribute back on Stack Overflow to increase your reputation
• Network with the attendees

3. 201 – OPENING UP TO COMMUNITY
• Open up your work – Approach meetup organizers for slots and
start presenting (1-2 times per quarter)
• Upload your slides to SlideShare and promote the link at the
Meetup comments section, LinkedIn and Twitter
• Got video skills? Start a YouTube channel instead
• Offer space at your company over weekends to host meetup
events; you now start becoming a volunteer
• Network with the speakers and community influencers

4. 301 – ENDGAME; COMMUNITY NIRVANA
• You would be approached to become co-organizers/event
organizers of popular meetups in your community.
• Start your own meetups/events/workshops around the topics
you’ve been associated with
• Approach your network circle for speakers that you know and have
interacted with earlier

5. GCDC ENGAGEMENT PLANS
BEST PRACTICES

6. EXTENDING THE REACH EFFECTIVELY
• Maximize membership – Cover different tracks for a broad spectrum of
GCP services (Container, Serverless, AI-ML, SRE)
• Joint events with other popular communities and GDG to drive
membership
• GCDC members are at different skill levels; meetups organized at varying
difficulty levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced)
• Member filtering to be done by a form that needs to be filled which will
ask for your social presence – Twitter, Blogs/website, Github,
StackOverflow, LinkedIn, Slideshare etc…

7. MISC ACTIVITIES
• Conducting extended sessions like I/O, Next events
• QwikLab sessions, Study Jams (for students), Coffee Talks etc..
• Webinar series to get globally reputed speakers (read GDEs)
• Hackathons to drive innovations and have it connected to GCP for
startups for innovative solutions

8. THANK YOU