Speakers
Description
This workshop is a brainstorm session about how we can improve the Ubuntu community. It also serves as the kick-off of a larger community building initiative that will continue after the summit is over.
While we all love the Ubuntu community, it also has its warts, and there is a lot that can improve. This workshop will focus on how to address some of the key challenges of the Ubuntu community.
- How can we make it easier to onboard new people and help them find their way to contributing?
- How can we nurture existing contributors to grow into leadership positions?
- How can we improve and clarify the relationship between volunteer contributors and Canonical employees?
- How can we make our community more diverse and global?
This workshop will seek to answer these questions and will kickstart the initiative to start working on these topics once the summit is over.
Session author's bio
Merlijn Sebrechts is an Ubuntu Community Council member and part of the Snapcrafters team. He's passionate about helping people to build communities that do great things. Merlijn's experience with community building started as board member of Hackerspace.Gent, where he created The Hackerspace Blueprint, a manifesto describing how to run a leaderless organization using do-ocracy.
Anne Fonteyn is a human rights activist with a background in community management and queer activism. She previously worked on improving the legal status of sex workers in Belgium and laying the groundwork for their unionization. She has also worked at the city of Ghent, Belgium to improve the quality of their data about the Ukrainian refugee crisis, in order to better assist local policy makers.
| Level of Difficulty | Beginner |
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| Social Media | https://ubuntu.social/@mesebrec |