Sculpting a Vibrant and Inclusive Open Community

mozfest-bot commented 6 years ago

[ UUID ] 5bc1aedb-6931-4533-a47c-a7fb490f91e7

[ Session Name ] Sculpting a Vibrant and Inclusive Open Community [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Openness

[ Submitter's Name ] Sayak Sarkar [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Mozilla [ Submitter's GitHub ] @sayak-sarkar

[ Language ] Hindi Bengali English

[ Localisation Support Requested ] No, I can host the session myself

What will happen in your session?

A Community is what you make of it - it can be a place for learning, for fun or for social change. This session would be focussed around the dynamics of what makes a community vibrant, collaborative, healthy and open. In this day and age of geographically widespread online and offline communities it often becomes difficult maintain a sense of vibrancy, inclusiveness and openness in communities. This would be a session with dynamic interactions among the participants where they would be encouraged to share their views, so that everyone can learn from each others experiences.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The idea here is to stimulate a spirited discussion around community dynamics. The goal being to motivate everyone involved in the session to either participate in or to recognize and develop existing communities into more vibrant and inclusive open communities.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

A projector would be required to present the topic. Some post-its, pens and flipcharts would be needed for brainstorming ideas.

Time needed

less than 60 mins

sayak-sarkar commented 6 years ago

P.S. The primary language for this session is going to be English. However, since I'm quite fluent in Hindi and Bengali, I can conduct the session in any of the three languages, depending on the participants.

Carotejada commented 6 years ago

Hello @sayak-sarkar thanks for your submission. This is an interesting topic. Can you tell us a bit more about your experience working with communities. If you have links to specific projects that you are leading, it would be useful.

Gracias!

sayak-sarkar commented 6 years ago

Hey @Carotejada

I have been a contributor to quite a few Open Source communities including Mozilla for over 8 years now. In these years, I have worn multiple hats in various community roles, spanning from sole contributor roles like code contributor, evangelist, tech speaker, mentor, event organizer, translator, storyteller, Mozilla Rep, etc to community leadership roles like Project Lead, Peer, community liaison (between contributors and the organization), Community leader, Mozilla Reps Mentor, Mozilla Reps Coach, Council member, etc.

You can check out some of my community involvement related links as follows:-

Mozilla Reps profile - https://reps.mozilla.org/u/sayak_bugsmith/
Mozillians profile - https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Sayak/
Fedora Community profile - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sayaksarkar

Regards, Sayak

danielryne commented 6 years ago

Hello @sayak-sarkar, thanks for submitting! Could you tell us a little more about what you actually have participants doing in the session? And how you will keep it interactive? Thanks!

sayak-sarkar commented 6 years ago

Hey @danielryne,

Broadly there are going to be two sections during the session:

The first part is going to be more of an introductory part wherein I am going to talk about the general perception about communities like what they are, how they function, community dynamics, common type of community issues and how to work them out, organic community growth vs. expansive community growth, stages of community growth, etc. I will follow this up by sharing some of my own experiences from multiple communities and what I have learnt from seeing these communities grow over the years.
The second part of the session is going to be more of an interactive participation based activity with the participants wherein the focus would be upon sharing one's own experiences within communities. Participants who might or might not have had prior community experiences would be able take part in this activity.
- If we have multiple participants with prior community experience, then depending upon the time availability, we would ask for 2-3 such participants to volunteer to share their experiences from any of the communities that they are a part of and what is the one thing that they think has helped or can help the community become more vibrant and inclusive.
- If we don't have enough experienced participants within the session, then based upon the number of participants, I would be sharing 2-3 hypothetical community stories and then divide the participants into 2-3 groups, such that each group can focus on one community story for 5-10mins and then identify which stage of growth the community belongs to and what can they do to make it more inclusive, open and vibrant. At the end of the session the groups can share their thoughts with everyone.

If you have any suggestions for improvements to the session plan I would be glad to hear about it.

Regards, Sayak

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