by Knut Yrvin - March 2th 2006

Community Manager

what to do - first 3 months

External● Community building activeties● Community governance● Building relationships

Internal● Expectations● Relations

by Knut Yrvin - March 2th 2006

Community building activities

Get the overview of

● Developer and user gatherings

● «How to guides» for new developers

● Top notch examples

● The feedback loops and relationships

by Knut Yrvin - March 2th 2006

Community «governance»

● The processes making qt (an evolutionary process)

● what is timebased?● what is feauture-based?● is it do-ocracy? - the person that does something

decides● Relationship maintenance

● Application● FOSDEM, distros

● Community repositories● blogs, forums, community sites

by Knut Yrvin - March 2th 2006

Relation building

● Student projects - Academic● Know your users (developers)

● What do they want, what do they use● popularity measurements

http://popcon.debian.org/● Corporate Governance

● Open Source / Open Content● KDE e.V ● Open Source for Education in Europe ● Competence centres in public sectors

by Knut Yrvin - March 2th 2006

Internal work

Make to: ● know what the expectations are

● iron out the goals for the role● iron out how to measure deliverance

● build good relations with the qt developers● the different groups

● know the company policies● possibilities● limitations