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Building a Strong Community: Insights and Strategies by Jim Hall

Learn essential community-building tips from Jim Hall, including roles, leadership styles, conflict resolution, and balancing control in web projects. Gain insights on documentation, coding pitfalls, and fostering engagement effectively.

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Building a Strong Community: Insights and Strategies by Jim Hall

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  1. Building Community Jim Hall

  2. Background

  3. What you need • Web site • Wiki • Mailing list • CVS/SVN

  4. Roles • Web • Usability • Documentation/wiki • Coding

  5. Gotchas • Poisonous personalities • Conflict happens • Bottom-up, not top-down • Balance (dictator vs democracy)

  6. Leadership • Giving up control • Leading / managing / doing • New directions • Taking a pulse

  7. Engagement • Frequent releases • Version numbers (1.1 vs 1.10) • Source code • Test builds

  8. Flame wars http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png

  9. Flame wars • Everything is public • Archives • Not real time • Cultural/language differences

  10. Balance • Work • Life • Project

  11. Questions? • Jim Hall • jhall@freedos.org • http://www.freedos.org/jhall/

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