The document discusses the importance of communities for open source projects like Liferay. It describes the different facets of the Liferay community, including forums, chat rooms, local user groups, and opportunities for engagement at different levels from consumer to contributor to creator. It outlines the benefits communities provide, such as helping to shape the future of the product by providing feedback, new contributions and uses. The key message is that strong communities are valuable for open source projects and users.

1. What’s in a community
like Liferay’s
Why the community is important and which is its role
in the future
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@dgomezg

2. Why ?

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Why do you that?

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Why I’m doing this?

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You crazy geeks!
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Buses_nocturnos_EMT_Madrid.JPG

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Why the community?

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The steps of commitment to the community

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The steps of commitment to the community
Join the
community
to learn

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The steps of commitment to the community
Join the
community
to learn
Start to
share small
bits of info

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The steps of commitment to the community
Join the
community
to learn
Start to
share small
bits of info
Contribute
& help
Others

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The steps of commitment to the community
Join the
community
to learn
Start to
share small
bits of info
Contribute
& help
Others
Define &
shape the
Community

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How those giants are grown?
Source: State of community Management Report 2017

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How the community evolves?
Source: State of Community Management Report 2017

17. What?
(The different faces of a Liferay’s community)

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The starting point
http://community.liferay.com

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The starting point
http://community.liferay.com

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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Drinking our own champagne

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Drinking our own champagne

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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http://community-chat.liferay.com

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http://community-chat.liferay.com

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But, don’t forget the Forums!

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But, don’t forget the Forums!
If your question requires
some context and
explanation

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But, don’t forget the Forums!
If your question requires
some context and
explanation
If you need to show
some code (not only a
couple of lines)

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But, don’t forget the Forums!
If your question requires
some context and
explanation
If you need to show
some code (not only a
couple of lines)
If it may be useful for others
in the future

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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The many faces of Liferay’s community

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Liferay User Groups
https://www.meetup.com/pro/liferay
http://community.liferay.com/user-groups

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Liferay User Groups (12+1)

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The older (s)

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The youngers (1yo)

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The youngers (1yo)

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The newborns

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Liferay University
http://university.liferay.com

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Community Activities - Beta program

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Community Activities - Beta program
+500 msgs with
valuable feedback

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Community Activities - Translation program

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Community Activities - Translation program
Liferay Portal

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Community Activities - Translation program
Liferay Commerce

53. The stages
(How can I engage with the community)

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Consumer
http://community.liferay.com

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Consumer
• The community, a good place to learn from others: read the
documentation (LDN), forums and follow the blog posts.
http://community.liferay.com

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Consumer
• The community, a good place to learn from others: read the
documentation (LDN), forums and follow the blog posts.
• Keep in touch: Join our Slack channel.
http://community.liferay.com

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Consumer
• The community, a good place to learn from others: read the
documentation (LDN), forums and follow the blog posts.
• Keep in touch: Join our Slack channel.
• User groups.
• Look for a local User Group, register and attend some meet-ups.
• Know the people doing things with Liferay near you
http://community.liferay.com

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Consumer
• The community, a good place to learn from others: read the
documentation (LDN), forums and follow the blog posts.
• Keep in touch: Join our Slack channel.
• User groups.
• Look for a local User Group, register and attend some meet-ups.
• Know the people doing things with Liferay near you
• Join the global dev.life sessions.
http://community.liferay.com

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Contributor

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Contributor
• Start answering questions on slack, forums.

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Contributor
• Start answering questions on slack, forums.
• Write a blog post on something you’ve done

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Contributor
• Start answering questions on slack, forums.
• Write a blog post on something you’ve done
• Propose a talk on your Local User Group, Or
Symposium, or Dev.life

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Contributor
• Start answering questions on slack, forums.
• Write a blog post on something you’ve done
• Propose a talk on your Local User Group, Or
Symposium, or Dev.life
• Help with any of Community Activities: Beta or
Translation Programs.

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Creator

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Creator
• Write new modules, or themes, or apps.
• Publish them on market place

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Creator
• Write new modules, or themes, or apps.
• Publish them on market place
• Explore the new Headless API, build showcases of new Frontend apps,

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Creator
• Write new modules, or themes, or apps.
• Publish them on market place
• Explore the new Headless API, build showcases of new Frontend apps,
• Try new products Commerce, WeDeploy

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Creator
• Write new modules, or themes, or apps.
• Publish them on market place
• Explore the new Headless API, build showcases of new Frontend apps,
• Try new products Commerce, WeDeploy
• Don’t blame, act!
• Contribute with fixes to issues,

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Collaborator / Lead

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Collaborator / Lead
• Help with your Liferay User Group
• Ask your Local LUG if they need help
• Engage with other Communities (JUGs, Frontend User Groups, …)
• Or create a new LUG if there’s none nearby.

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Collaborator / Lead
• Help with your Liferay User Group
• Ask your Local LUG if they need help
• Engage with other Communities (JUGs, Frontend User Groups, …)
• Or create a new LUG if there’s none nearby.
• Lead a community initiative:
• Became translation proofreader for your native language.
• Join Beta program (when available)

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The history told by one of those Leaders

73. What will I get

74. What will we all get
(The benefits of a strong community)

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Shape the future of the product
• We take feedback into account (Beta
program)
• New contributions
• Multi-tenant was added after a
community’s contribution
• New uses
• IoT, Docker, Cloud, …

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78. Thanks!
developer-relations@liferay.com