What is community, anyway?
summary
Ten years of open source and developer-relations experience condense into three claims: the word community is diluted to meaninglessness, community work functions as community is R&D rather than mere sales on‑ramp, and community must not be an extension of marketing. Examples: running Google’s Summer of Code and hosting Ubuntu developer summits, advising Token labs and Hoopoe, observing ~10% and ~50% audience hand-raisings as concrete data points, and arguing that community programs succeed by enabling user success not short-term revenue.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30Leslies background
- 1:22What is community
- 2:15Leslies story
- 3:20Abun Developer Summit
- 4:20Community Manager
- 5:40Developer Relations
- 7:40Managing a community
- 8:07Onramp to sales
- 9:05Cultivating community
- 10:00Research and development
- 10:58User education
- 11:52Conclusion
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