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Community Canvas

Our mutual space for staying a meaningful devrel community

Community means something different to every person. That's why we wanted to create a shared space for the vision of our community that we can all contribute to, so as to make our experience within Devrel Space constantly better.

We highly recommend giving it a look as it will provide you with more fulfilling experience in terms of both sharing and learning. For a more graphical version, you can always visit Devrel Space Community Canvas Graphics.

This canvas would not have been created without great help from Community Canvas. For all the materials and community value they have created, we want to say huge Kudos! 👏

Contribution

If you consider something really crucial on the road to making our community more meaningful, feel free to create a branch and open a pull request. All potential changes to our Community Canvas must be reviewed by community maintainers, before being merged. Do not forget to assign Konrad, so as to have your PR checked as soon as possible.

Table of contents

Identity

Questions of belief 🙏

Purpose

  • Devrel awareness
  • Developer-oriented experience and knowledge sharing
  • Education in terms of devrel, tech and leadership
  • Extending a group of people interested in or joining devrel world
  • Creating a group of people who really understand developer needs and are able to create products fulfilling those needs
  • Shortening the way between community and professional devrel world: getting hire, changing domain of knowledge

Member

  • People with no or minimum entry devrel knowledge
  • Shared passion for improvement in developer-oriented field
  • Shared passion for developing and designing better products for developers
  • Programming accessible to wider range of people
  • People somehow connected to the software engineering industry

Values

  • Only devrel meat!
  • Well-organized structure
  • Well-organized way of storing and sharing knowledge
  • Positive energy
  • Mutual respect
  • Devrel knowledge sharing in a welcoming and friendly way
  • Community members decide how and when they want to contribute to the community
  • We communicate ourselves through our brand, publications, contact with devrel professionals and our partners

Success

  • Bigger number of people with real knowledge about devrel working in devrel
  • Bigger numbers of people interested in devrel
  • Greater awareness of what devrel really is
  • People joining to learn but also share
  • Passing devrel passion

Brand

  • Awareness towards developers' needs
  • Easy, welcoming and friendly way of knowledge sharing
  • Co-operation with world's devrel communities

Experience

Community from the perspective of the members 👨‍💻👩‍💻

Selection

  • Devrel Space is an open-community
  • Members vs non-member: belonging to communication channels and GitHub organisation
  • On-boarding: welcome pack, hello notes
  • No potential members targeted behaviour

Transition

  • No defined end of membership
  • No formal alumni community, we do foster creating new relationships
  • Inactive members -> re-engaging emails

Atmosphere

  • Welcoming atmosphere built on respect
  • Feedback Culture
  • Q&A sessions
  • Discussions
  • Top-down organized experience (by community maintainers)
  • Shared experience speaking to a diverse group of members

Rituals

  • Occasional beer-ups
  • Hello onboarding
  • Optional meetups warmup:
    • Hello name!
    • What did you eat for breakfast?
    • Mustard vs ketchup? And why mustard?
  • Membership milestone -> online congrats

Content

  • Only Devrel meat!
  • Developer oriented stories, case studies, lessons learnt
  • Members' stories of their projects and articles
  • Valuable content contributed via discussions and pull requests

Rules

  • Code of Conduct
  • Member expectations:
    • Respect
    • Devrel meat
    • No harassment
    • Shared experience
  • If one does not follow the rules, one is warned or expelled from meetup/community
  • Community maintainers may change, create and enforce rules after consultations with community members

Roles

  • Community maintainers
  • Mentors
  • Speakers
  • Partners
  • Community members

Structure

Operational elements of running a community 🤓

Organization

We are all Devrel passionates!

  • Community Maintainers: Konrad & Ada (Co-Founders)
  • Annual meetups (once a month)
  • Regular presence on the web and at different meetups and conferences
  • Law: Code of Conduct

Governance

  • Main decision belong to community maintainers, however we are democracy-led decision will be made based on whole community view
  • The range of decision makers may vary depending on:
    • Community commitment
    • Devrel experience
  • Conflicts will be handled by both community maintainers and its members within Code of Conduct appliance

Financing

  • We are and will be financially sustainable thanks to our partners support
  • Community meetups and resources are financed with help from our partners
  • We have never intended and will never plan to generate any revenue apart from the educational one

Channels

  • Communication channels: Facebook, Twitter, Slack, GitHub
  • Community content storage: GitHub
  • Publications: Medium / Facebook
  • Communication with partners: Linkedin, Mail
  • Physical Space:
    • Easy to get to with public transport
    • Accessible for disabled

Data

  • Culture of constructive feedback within community members
  • Bi-monthly feedback forms
  • Feedback gathered via pull requests
  • Feedback forms:
    • Comments
    • Posts
    • Transparent feedback reports
    • GitHub pull requests