1. Not a Developer?
Not a problem!
Giving back is more than code!
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2. Conversations: The curious
"I love Elgg. Is there a plugin that...?"
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3. Conversations: The demanding
"I love Elgg. You need to write a plugin that..."
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4. Conversations: The threatening
"I use Elgg. I'm going to switch to Socialize
Wowzer X-Treme Pro Elite unless you..."
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5. Conversations: The true love
"I love Elgg. How can I help?"
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6. An OSS project is more than code
● Community
● Documentation
● Evangelism
● (Others, but we only have 20 minutes!)
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7. Community
● Moderate community site
● Try and comment on plugins
● Help newbies
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8. Community - Adopt a newbie
example
Matt Beckett helps a newbie
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9. Documentation
● Non-technical docs
● Lessons learned
● Docs for users
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10. Community - User documentation
Arvixe's Elgg blog by Rodolfo Hernandez
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11. Evangelism
● Telling people about Elgg
● Holding meetups
● Tweeting, suggesting it to people to try,
blogging
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12. Community - Evangelism
Elgg Meetup LDN (Laura Gill) and NYC (Mike
Kasper, Rene Yap)
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13. Community is #1
● Everything is important, but community is #1.
● Plans to improve the Elgg community
○ New theme
○ Improved plugin repo
○ Karma plugin
○ Ignore users
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14. Not a Developer?
Not a problem!
SpeakerRate: http://el.gg/as3ai
Brett Profitt • ElggCamp SF 2012 • brett@elgg.org • @brettprofitt