📖 Link collection community building and management

To read, listen & watch

• Building a sustainable open source community: training and certifications: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/building-a-sustainable-open-source-community-training-and-certifications/

• Linux Foundation, Participating in Open Source Communities, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/tools/participating-in-open-source-communities/

• Coaching for Open Source Communities 2.0: https://medium.com/@leslielauralive/coaching-for-open-source-communities-2-0-b29b84a43322 and https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/community_coaching_open_source_communities_2/

• #MoreThanCode’s tips on community building: https://morethancode.cc/report/executivesummary/

• Open Source Guide, Building Welcoming Communities: https://opensource.guide/building-community/

Methods & tools

• Some people want just the basic infos, others are interested in more details. Writing/Communicating in an inverted pyramid-style helps: Give the most basic information first, put details in later sections that can be easily ignored if there is no strong interest in them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)

• The Wheel of Successfuly Practice gives an overview of practices that help to grow and maintain communities: https://preparecenter.org/resource/valuing-what-works-success-factors-in-disaster-preparedness/ 

• Read up on Legitimate peripheral participation to understand how newcomers can become part of the community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimate_peripheral_participation and https://www.fordes.de/posts/LegitimatePeripheralParticipationWikipedia.html

• Automatization tools for communication:
  • MailerLite for newsletters - reasonable free tier http://mailerlite.com
  • Buttondown for newsletters - automations and a generous free plan https://buttondown.com
  • Mattermost, discord, slack, whatsapp groups, signal, Matrix (Some channels are more or less attractive to some communities – discord is a bit more gamer-y, matrix more for devs etc.)
  • List from the Civic Field Tech Guide with tools: https://directory.civictech.guide/listing-category/internal-communication-and-coordination

For networking opportunites take also a look at our link collection on project presentation and communication: https://kb.prototypefund.de/Themen/prasentation-und-kommunikation/page/link-collection-project-presentation-and-communication