BuildingCommunity Refresh

[Jono Bacon]

Hi Folks,

Hope all is well!

I wanted to reach out to see if some of you would be interested in 
taking part in a documentation effort to help provide improved resources 
to our wider community when it comes to community best practice.

 From a post that I published recently to Planet Ubuntu:

Our community has a wealth of experience. Different skills, 
capabilities, life experiences, and perspectives all contribute to a 
boiling pot of knowledge that when shared can help us all to do great 
work as part of our different Ubuntu community teams. When we can learn 
from each other, we can spread this experience far and wide and 
accomplish even more.

As part of my goal to help support and motivate leaders it struck me 
that we don't have as much of this supporting documentation and best 
practice as we could. Our leaders and wider community should be able to 
have a dependable set of documentation and resources to help them grow 
community teams and tend to issues effectively; in essence, a shared 
knowledge base from the community's combined insight.

Some years ago I created an Ubuntu wiki mini site called 
BuildingCommunity (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity) where we 
set out to document this kind of best practice. Unfortunately, like many 
people, I got busy with other work, as did others, and the pages have 
not been updated as often as I think we would have liked.

Tonight I spent some time digging through the pages and cleaning them up 
a little. There is some great content on there, with two particularly 
interesting sections I think we could expand:

  * Knowledge Base 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/KnowledgeBase) - a collection 
of pages, information, tips, tricks, and other guidance for common 
community challenges.
  * FAQ (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/FAQ) - what was 
intended to be a growing FAQ of common questions and answers about how 
to grow, manage, and coordinate a community and team.

Tonight I also created a Leaders and Governance overview 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/CommunityLeaders) which 
summarizes how the community is structured; this could also do with some 
additional content and tweaking.

I would like to put out a call to encourage folks to contribute to 
refining these pages, adding content, fixing errors, and otherwise 
helping to produce this awesome shared resource. I also talked today in 
`#ubuntu-community-team` with Amber, Greg, Benjamin and some others 
about how we could coordinate some more docs, such as a docs day. Would 
you folks be interested in taking part in a day to get this resource in 
shape?

Would anyone be interested in participating?

     Jono

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Jono Bacon
Ubuntu Community Manager
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