Global Melt/Value
Contents
Values - Team 1
- John - Wikimedia
- Michelle - Mozilla
- Claudia - KDE
- Charlie - friend of Mozilla
- Siebrand - translatewiki.net
For participants
- Hard to define the value proposition. Easy for organisers, but we need to focus on the value for
the participant.
- Community summit - I love meeting my friends whom I work with every day in real life.
- Better understanding of the person on the other side of the line. Interfacing, improving relationships.
- Getting context.
- Reality check/Feedback on ideas or concepts in more understandable and sane ways.
- Group thinking (?)
- Learn, find out, get informed, get choice.
Summary
- Getting a reality check on ideas and concepts
- Fulfill the need for belonging and having and deepening social real-life relationships
- Get information on familiar and unfamiliar topics
For organisation
- Community summit - Results in code, decisions, strengthened community, outreach leading to new community.
- KDE has newbie quota for sprints.
- Growth of the contributor base, knowledge transfer, continuity of community.
- Community binding/bonding.
- Providing context and gathering feedback.
Summary
- Acceleration of loads of stuff
- Outreach kills groups thinking
- Boosting community health
Materials
- Mentorship programme for event organising
- Guidelines for event organising
- 10 steps to organising an event that sucks
- outreach toolbox
- best practice examples
- don'ts
- checklists
Values - Team 2
Motivations
- Networking
- Sharing knowledge
- Cross-cultural melting
- Trying to understand how people work
- ..collaborate
- strengthening existing ties
- Building a common ID within an organization
- Having common definition, understanding, messages (languages)
- Realizing one of the goals of the organization, for the local community (regional level)
- being part of the Zeitgeist
- being part of something fun
- spreading the message
Actual Values
Value to the world
- Networking
- Sharing knowledge
- Having common definition, understanding, messages (languages)
- Meaningful procreation
Communities are transformed.
Value to the organization
- Having common definition, understanding, messages (languages)
- Realizing one of the goals of the organization, for the local community (regional level)
- Building a common ID within an organization
- Cross-cultural melting
- strengthening existing ties
- Being able to shape the communication in detail, and communicate complex values
- spreading the message
Organizations communicate.
Value to the participant
- Networking
- Sharing knowledge
- Finding like-minded people
- Forming partnerships
- Having common definition, understanding, messages (languages)
- being part of the Zeitgeist
- being part of something fun
- Cross-cultural melting
- Trying to understand how people work
- ..collaborate
- Learning the message
Participants discover, learn, meet, have sex, etc.
Actions
- Simple set of guidelines for people willing to organize events (event kit)
- Drafting a social relationship service for the open web (community)
- Forming a specific collaboration between the groups here, to serve as a practical model