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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
- 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
- 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.
- A Preliminary Study of the Effects of Barnstars on Wikipedia Editing; found that number of edits goes down after an editor gets a barnstar, but eventually recovers to the level before the barnstar.