Alfresco Community Vision & Plan

Jeff PottsChief Community Officer

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.

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Our Community is our Innovation Engine

My Objectives for the Community: 3 E’s

Engage. Enable. Expose.

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Engage community members

• Increase community participationo Quality and frequency

• Increase Alfresco-related community code contributions• Provide a mechanism for direct

product feedback from community

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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

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11 ways to contribute to the Community

• Create/respond to a topic in the forums

• Use Alfresco Jira to raise an issue or contribute a patch

• Edit the Alfresco wiki• Post an Alfresco-

related status on a social site

• Write a blog post or article

• Participate in a roundtable or committee

• Conduct a webinar• Attend an event• Give a talk at an event• Publish a

screencast/video• Contribute to/start an

open source project

What motivates the community?

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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

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

Expose the greatness

• Promote individuals making exceptional contributions to the community• Promote community contributions• Alfresco Community Everywhere

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

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

What to Expect in 2011 (2 of 2)

• Community Advisory Board• More examples of Share

customization• Alfresco.org tweaks

Upcoming events

• Dashlet Challenge now through end of August• Tech Talk Live: Alfresco CMIS

o August 3, 11:00 Easterno 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 - 6o Devoxx Antwerp, Nov 14 - 18

Community Driven Meetups

• Grab some people and a place and meet!o Doesn’t have to be fancyo Can be technical, end-user, or botho Start small and grow

• Atlanta, Washington DC, Milan, Rome have met• Colorado Springs in August• Johannesburg in September• Madrid in October

Getting involved in an Alfresco meetup

• Existing meetups looking for peopleo http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Local_Communitie

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• People looking for meetupso http://www.meetup.com/alfresco

Email: jpotts@alfresco.comTwitter: @jeffpotts01Blog: http://ecmarchitect.com