Global Melt/Value

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

The value of our events

1) Participants become more strongly connected to the mission, ambition and work of the organization.

2) Participants feel a clear sense of belonging, friendship, personal learning and reward for involvement.

3) The event raises awareness, meets concrete goals, educates and draws in a greater audience.

Tools

- Knowledge of your group and their interests (profiles, backgrounds) in order to tailor events to their needs.

- Have a clear plan and agenda for the event and beyond.

- Know your external environment and target audience.

- Documenting the event responsibly, reporting outcomes, and sharing widely.

- Communicating a sense of urgency and purpose for meeting.

- Ensure good professional facilitation of event (either internal or external).