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Mozilla Community-Building Readings

The following guides and documentation have information and tips for how to build community around your project. There is a mix of Mozilla-specific and general open source community building material. Feel free to add links to other relevant information.

Mozilla-specific

• Hosting community events at Mozilla Spaces

• Who is in the Mozilla community infographic

• Lexicon of Mozilla community terms

• Having productive community discussions

• Community Building Best Practices by various Mozillians

• How To Be A Mozillian; How To Work In Community (video) by Gerv Markham

• 'Winning For Mozilla' closing keynote at MozCamp Europe 2011 (video) by Mitchell Baker

• Engaging the Mozilla Community (video) by Mike Beltzner

• Mozilla Governance pages

• Community Management Presentation by Dave Eaves

• Community building posts from Mozilla Hispano community by Ruben Martin

General

• Community Event Planning by Christie Koehler, Sherri Montgomery and Audrey Eschright

• The Art of Community by Jono Bacon

• Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel

• Effective mentoring programs by Dave Neary

• Diversity in practice: How the Boston Python User Group grew to 1700 people and over 15% women by Asheesh Laroia and Jessica McKellar

• Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design by Robert E. Kraut and Paul Resnick; available online as PDF draft chapters

• Volunteer Management Resource Center from idealist.org

• Collective Action Toolkit from frog

• How To Put Free Software Experience On Your Resumé

• Buzzing Communities: How to build bigger, better, more active online communities by Richard Millington.

• Building Web Reputation Systems by Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass.

• Cultivating Communities of Practice: A guide to managing knowledge by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder.

• The Online Community Guide, blog by Richard Millington.