SSA Community Summit 2018 GDG Community Building Tips ...ideas that work
The struggle is real! Have ever been overwhelmed? ● Have you ever lost sight of ● some important mails while handling other community activities? Have ever organised an event ● that your co-organisers did turn up? Photo credits: www.everydayfeminism.com SSA Community Summit 2018 Right click on images and select ‘Replace Image’ Delete this instructional text box.
Why community building is difficult... Being part of a community is ● different from having a regular job where: One is paid ● One must produce results ● The existence of a person in a ● company is strongly determined by his/her contribution to the global Photo credits: report.nissan-global.com goal of the company. SSA Community Summit 2018 Right click on images and select ‘Replace Image’ Delete this instructional text box.
Why community building is difficult... A community of volunteers often ● times have no obligation ….. ● Sometimes some members do not necessarily know their community long term and short term goals ● Just like a bus, anyone can alight at anytime... SSA Community Summit 2018 Right click on images and select ‘Replace Image’ Delete this instructional text box.
Community building blocks: Diversity and Inclusion Diversity means you accept people irrespective ● of their backgrounds, beliefs and other social factors. Many community often get it right at the diversity level. ● Inclusion is to engage them in the community. At this point, they learn about the community guidelines, and are asked to contribute to the community based on their skillset. This is the point where a member learns that a community is all about give and take... SSA Community Summit 2018 Right click on images and select ‘Replace Image’ Delete this instructional text box.
STRUCTURE GDG Abomey-Calavi has organised 14 Events/training sessions in 2018 and we are still counting...
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TIPS Simplify your activities: ● Event organising is all about … ● Graphics ● Publicity ● Venue ● Trainers ● Goodies SSA Community Summit 2018 Right click on images and select ‘Replace Image’ Delete this instructional text box.
Leadership Team Your Team: ● GDG LEAD ● GDG CO-LEAD ● EVENT ORGANISERS: ○ GDG Trainers ○ GDG Graphics Team ○ GDG Documentation Team ○ GDG Communication and logistics team ○ Grand event Management Team SSA Community Summit 2018 Right click on images and select ‘Replace Image’ Delete this instructional text box.
GDG LEAD ROLE Event planning and tracking (Slack community) ● GDG SSA requests and reports ● Searching for global/ local opportunities for GDG members ● GDG representation that promotes GDG branding ● Master Slide compilation and validation for grand events ● Yearly learning curve validation ● Schedule GDG media team timeline ● GDG Trainers list Validation ● GDG events creation on meetup ● Management of GDG Meetup mailing list ● All events supervision ● Social media engagement ●
GDG CO-LEAD ROLE Leveraging necessary local partnerships for adequate event organisation ● Make proper findings that will make resources available for GDG local events ● Leverage a long term partnership with a co-working spaces eg: Solidar IT ● Training Center Partnership Trainers proposal for grand events ● Yearly learning curve proposal ● GDG Trainers list proposal ● Management of GDG event photos on Meetup ● All events supervision ● Community and social media engagement ●
GDG Trainers Team Responsible for managing training Hubs. Present training hubs on Hangouts include: ● Dialogflow Hub 229 ○ PWA Hub 229 ○ Android-Kotlin Hub 229 ○ Responsible for enriching GDG online tutorial database: https://goo.gl/kZfs48 ● Available for running keynote and codelabs sessions during GDG events. ● Responsible for writing reports for training session held ●
GDG Graphics Team (on Slack and Whatsapp as GDG AC comm Hub) Make a photo and Video year review for GDG events eg: GDG ● Abomey-Calavi 2017 year review available on Youtube. Creates an Event design template for each year with color-alteration based ● on icon colors per event organised Responsible for designs of all gadgets(t-shirts, keyholders, notepads, ● banners, flyers, tags, etc.) for all events
GDG Documentation Team Responsible for sending letters and emails for invitation of special guests ● and institutions during grand Events Supervision and upload of GDG online training session documents ● Responsible for the production of GDG grand event agenda ● Responsible for the production and distribution of “certificate of ● participation” during GDG grand events Participants attendance list management for grand events ●
GDG Communication and logistics team (on slack and whatsapp as organisateurs du Meetup) Follow pre-scheduled GDG media team timeline ● Responsible for participants registration on meetup ● Event publicity and engagement ● Event venue assessment and organisation ● Tweeting and GDG online reputation management ● GDG event hashtags (pre-scheduled) ● Participants attendance list management ●
Grand event Management Team (a sub-unit of GDG Communication team) Responsible for the logistics of grand events ● Provide strategy plan for engaging participants ● Event venue assessment and organisation ● Will be largely assisted by GDG Communication and logistics team ● Grand events are event with over 100 expected participants
How we work Our GDG chapter organisers plan 95% of our events ONLINE! Photo from GDG Ab Cal Next 17 Extended SSA Community Summit 2018
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