The Art of Community - Notes


 * Define fundamentals:
 * Mission
 * Opportunities and areas of collaboration
 * Skills required
 * Fixed software cycles
 * Define roadmap, with for each objective:
 * Goal
 * Success criteria
 * Implementation plan
 * Owner
 * Brainstorming sessions (p 53)
 * Performance reviews of contributors involving the community
 * Teams/themes:
 * Identify how the community can be divided into teams/themes
 * Ensure that teams/themes can communicate effectively - understand dependency and extent of collaboration between them
 * Define scope for each team, help members to understand it (clear mission statement)
 * Regular published meetings
 * Code of conduct
 * IRC + bot
 * Forum/ml gateway
 * Modules/add-ons
 * Blog
 * Process simplification (Ford-style):
 * Goal chieved quickly
 * Fewest steps possible
 * Each step simple, well documented, clearly communicated
 * Whole process is clearly communicated
 * Quality is checked regularly (achieves the outcome, efficiency, documentation, openess to change and improvement)
 * Define process and path:
 * New people join
 * People submit contributions
 * People collaborate together
 * People deal with conflict
 * etc.