Slide deck to accompany Jeff Potts' webinar on the 2011 Alfresco Community Vision & Plan

1. Alfresco Community
Vision & Plan
Jeff Potts
Chief Community Officer

2. Alfresco Community Mission
To increase the value of the Alfresco
community for all stakeholders and make it
the leading example for all other
commercial open source companies to
follow.

3. Increase the size of the pie

4. Increase the size of the slice

5. Lots of different slices

6. Our Community is our Innovation Engine

7. My Objectives for the Community: 3 E’s
Engage. Enable. Expose.

8. Engage

11. Engage community members
• Increase community participation
o Quality and frequency
• Increase Alfresco-related community
code contributions
• Provide a mechanism for direct product
feedback from community

12. Enable

17. Enable the community
• Make it easier for the community to make
code contributions
• Make it easier for end-users to find & install
community-contributed extensions from
within the product
• Make it easier for newcomers to get
started with Alfresco

18. Expose

19. Small things matter

20. 11 ways to contribute to the Community
• Create/respond to a • Participate in a
topic in the forums roundtable or committee
• Use Alfresco Jira to raise • Conduct a webinar
an issue or contribute a • Attend an event
patch • Give a talk at an event
• Edit the Alfresco wiki • Publish a screencast/
• Post an Alfresco-related video
status on a social site • Contribute to/start an
• Write a blog post or open source project
article

21. What motivates the community?

22. Peace, love, & open source reasons
• You want to be part of something bigger;
a movement, a revolution
• You want to collaborate with others
• You want to be recognized amongst your
peers
• You dislike _________ (Microsoft, IBM,
Oracle, proprietary, all of the above)
• You like to code or write or create
• You want to be part of a community;
sense of belonging

24. Self-interested reasons
• You want to pick up new skills so you can
earn more money
• You want to lower the cost of
maintenance of your code/
customizations/extensions
• You want to build brand/name
recognition
• You recognize that a healthy ecosystem
means more projects/revenue for you

25. Expose the greatness
• Promote individuals making exceptional
contributions to the community
• Promote community contributions
• Alfresco Community Everywhere

26. Objectives Recap
• Engage community members, regardless
of skill set or relationship to Alfresco, to
participate more deeply
• Enable the community with tools,
resources, and product enhancements
that leverage community contributions
• Expose the greatness already existing in
the community, both community projects
and individuals

27. What to Expect in 2011 (1 of 2)
• Annual Community Survey (CMPL)
• Alfresco support for locally-driven
meetups/hack-a-thons worldwide
• Alfresco DevCon 2011
• Catalog of Alfresco add-ons with ratings,
comments, ACCP
• Forum points contest
• Contributor of the Month/Year

28. What to Expect in 2011 (2 of 2)
• Community Advisory Board
• More examples of Share customization
• Alfresco.org tweaks

29. Upcoming events
• Dashlet Challenge now through end of
August
• Tech Talk Live: Alfresco CMIS
o August 3, 11:00 Eastern
o First Wednesday of every month
• DevCon 2011 Americas Nov 2 & 3
• DevCon 2011 EMEA Nov 9 & 10
• Join us at these sponsored events:
o JavaONE San Francisco, Oct 2 - 6
o Devoxx Antwerp, Nov 14 - 18

30. Community Driven Meetups
• Grab some people and a place and
meet!
o Doesn’t have to be fancy
o Can be technical, end-user, or both
o Start small and grow
• Atlanta, Washington DC, Milan, Rome
have met
• Colorado Springs in August
• Johannesburg in September
• Madrid in October

31. Getting involved in an Alfresco meetup
• Existing meetups looking for people
o http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Local_Communities
• People looking for meetups
o http://www.meetup.com/alfresco

32. Email: jpotts@alfresco.com
Twitter: @jeffpotts01
Blog: http://ecmarchitect.com