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Effective Tech Community Engagement - Best Practices

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Runcy Oommen
Runcy Oommen

This document provides best practices for effective community engagement in 3 stages: 1) Build your brand and recognition through small contributions, 2) Open up your work by presenting at meetups and publishing materials, and 3) Achieve "community nirvana" by becoming a meetup organizer. It also outlines plans for engaging the Google Cloud Community, including maximizing diverse membership, joint events, and activities like extended sessions, study groups, and webinars.

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFECTIVE BEST PRACTICES RUNCY OOMMEN @runcyoommen /runcyoommen https://runcy.me
101 - BUILD YOUR BRAND & RECOGNITION • Start small. Make yourself known within the community – attend popular tech meetups & participate in hackathons • Open source contributions – Start contributing to Github projects (if not code, at least docs); even better start a FOSS project • Start documenting – Make public gists of things your learn and contribute back on Stack Overflow to increase your reputation • Network with the attendees
201 – OPENING UP TO COMMUNITY • Open up your work – Approach meetup organizers for slots and start presenting (1-2 times per quarter) • Upload your slides to SlideShare and promote the link at the Meetup comments section, LinkedIn and Twitter • Got video skills? Start a YouTube channel instead • Offer space at your company over weekends to host meetup events; you now start becoming a volunteer • Network with the speakers and community influencers
301 – ENDGAME; COMMUNITY NIRVANA • You would be approached to become co-organizers/event organizers of popular meetups in your community. • Start your own meetups/events/workshops around the topics you’ve been associated with • Approach your network circle for speakers that you know and have interacted with earlier
GCDC ENGAGEMENT PLANS BEST PRACTICES
EXTENDING THE REACH EFFECTIVELY • Maximize membership – Cover different tracks for a broad spectrum of GCP services (Container, Serverless, AI-ML, SRE) • Joint events with other popular communities and GDG to drive membership • GCDC members are at different skill levels; meetups organized at varying difficulty levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced) • Member filtering to be done by a form that needs to be filled which will ask for your social presence – Twitter, Blogs/website, Github, StackOverflow, LinkedIn, Slideshare etc…
MISC ACTIVITIES • Conducting extended sessions like I/O, Next events • QwikLab sessions, Study Jams (for students), Coffee Talks etc.. • Webinar series to get globally reputed speakers (read GDEs) • Hackathons to drive innovations and have it connected to GCP for startups for innovative solutions
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Effective Tech Community Engagement - Best Practices

  • 1. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFECTIVE BEST PRACTICES RUNCY OOMMEN @runcyoommen /runcyoommen https://runcy.me
  • 2. 101 - BUILD YOUR BRAND & RECOGNITION • Start small. Make yourself known within the community – attend popular tech meetups & participate in hackathons • Open source contributions – Start contributing to Github projects (if not code, at least docs); even better start a FOSS project • Start documenting – Make public gists of things your learn and contribute back on Stack Overflow to increase your reputation • Network with the attendees
  • 3. 201 – OPENING UP TO COMMUNITY • Open up your work – Approach meetup organizers for slots and start presenting (1-2 times per quarter) • Upload your slides to SlideShare and promote the link at the Meetup comments section, LinkedIn and Twitter • Got video skills? Start a YouTube channel instead • Offer space at your company over weekends to host meetup events; you now start becoming a volunteer • Network with the speakers and community influencers
  • 4. 301 – ENDGAME; COMMUNITY NIRVANA • You would be approached to become co-organizers/event organizers of popular meetups in your community. • Start your own meetups/events/workshops around the topics you’ve been associated with • Approach your network circle for speakers that you know and have interacted with earlier
  • 6. EXTENDING THE REACH EFFECTIVELY • Maximize membership – Cover different tracks for a broad spectrum of GCP services (Container, Serverless, AI-ML, SRE) • Joint events with other popular communities and GDG to drive membership • GCDC members are at different skill levels; meetups organized at varying difficulty levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced) • Member filtering to be done by a form that needs to be filled which will ask for your social presence – Twitter, Blogs/website, Github, StackOverflow, LinkedIn, Slideshare etc…
  • 7. MISC ACTIVITIES • Conducting extended sessions like I/O, Next events • QwikLab sessions, Study Jams (for students), Coffee Talks etc.. • Webinar series to get globally reputed speakers (read GDEs) • Hackathons to drive innovations and have it connected to GCP for startups for innovative solutions