The Prairie Initiative - Update
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The Prairie Initiative aims to enhance the Drupal community experience by improving the collaboration tools and onboarding process for new contributors. It seeks to create a more welcoming environment, streamline participation, and promote better communication among community members. The initiative emphasizes the need for innovative approaches to project management and community engagement to make contributing less intimidating and more effective.
The Prairie Initiative - Update
- 1. The Prairie Initiative Leisa Reichelt disambiguity.com Drupalcon London 2011
- 3. I want to help improve the registration form that comes out of Drupal. Where do I go to offer my time/skills to the community?
- 4. where is it? how do I get involved?
- 5. maybe I want to get started helping?
- 6. maybe this is for me? forums? IRC? (eek!) Community & Support Page
- 7. community: this looks like the obvious place to a more obvious place to start...
- 8. where is the Drupal community? not here...
- 10. eeek!
- 11. maybe here? (what am I registering for?)
- 12. still don’t know what I’m registering for...
- 16. from: info
- 17. welcome to the Drupal community... or not.
- 20. WTF?
- 27. so... this is Drupal right? you’d better get used to it.
- 30. this is an (inadvertent) statement of our values
- 31. we don’t value the experience that new contributors have
- 32. we don’t value the quality of the products we produce and/or the spaces we inhabit
- 33. could we make a crappier ‘onboarding’ experience if we tried?
- 34. The term onboarding comes from the field of human resources and the common practice of new hire orientation. In that context, the steps in the process are often referred to as accommodate, assimilate, and accelerate—all of which apply quite nicely to how new users ought to be treated in order to bring them into the fold. - Whitney Hess http://uxmag.com/design/onboarding-designing-welcoming-first-experiences
- 36. how persistent people who DON’T work for Drupal shops and join the community must be (desirability, passion?)
- 37. tactics//vision
- 38. tactics//vision
- 39. who do we want in the Drupal community?
- 40. how should it feel to join the Drupal community?
- 41. how should it feel to stay active the Drupal community?
- 42. how much do we care?
- 43. as you are, so are your buildings; and as your buildings are, so are you Louis H Sullivan ‘father of skyscrapers’ Introducing the Prairie Initiative Leisa Reichelt, Disambiguity.com
- 44. ‘The behavior you’re seeing is the behavior you’ve designed for’ Joshua Porter http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesper
- 45. designing for behaviour as a first class object... change the context and you get different behaviour - Clay Shirky
- 46. backcasting from an ideal state
- 47. social architecture project the prairie initiative
- 49. goals: 1. to improve the collaboration tools on Drupal.org so that we can do more and better work together and make Drupal better, faster. 2. to grow the pool of contributors by making Drupal.org a better and easier place to become a contributor - to make it less intimidating to people who want to get started contributing
- 50. Prairie Initiative is not a project It’s a family of projects with a shared vision
- 51. help us to be more effective - allow us to make good decisions, quickly - involve the right people at the right time - encourage us to follow good processes for designing and implementing solutions
- 52. we need to be more findable and more joined up - how do new people find the issue queue? - you do you find issues you need/want to know about? - why are there three different initiatives going on at once to solve the same problem (this is ok, except that they don’t know about each other)
- 53. we need to know about things even if we can’t be on IRC or in the issue queue for hours every day - smart notifications! - let me know when I should know something. - don’t bug me all the time...
- 54. we need understand & support modes of participation better - 1:9:90 - easier to be a power user/leader - easier to dip in and add value
- 55. we need a better way to plan initiatives together - planning something big is different to getting work on a project done - a place to plan complex, multi-stage projects - a place to plan projects that don’t involve code
- 56. we need to be more inclusive - a welcoming environment for noobs - a way to efficiently provide friendly support - an environment that supports all disciplines.
- 57. be considerate be respectful be collaborative when we disagree, we consult others when we are unsure, we ask for help step down considerately http://drupal.org/dcoc
- 58. we should behave online like we do in the hallways at conferences & camps - an environment that encourages friendliness, politeness, constructiveness, proactivity. - a way to channel passion positively - ‘the shadow of the future’?
- 59. We don’t have a choice about whether we have a reputation system or not. We need to choose if/how we write it down . - what’s measured matters - a way to show influence whilst remaining egalitarian - a way to show expertise without being a show off
- 60. a world of inspiration...
- 61. what if an issue was more like an Open Ideo challenge?
- 62. what if an issue was more like an Open Ideo challenge?
- 63. what if an issue was more like an Open Ideo challenge?
- 64. what if an issue was more like an Open Ideo challenge?
- 65. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 66. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 67. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 68. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 69. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 70. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 71. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 72. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 73. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 74. what if an issue was more like a Quora Q&A?
- 75. what if our profile pages were better designed?
- 76. what if we had topic pages like Quora?
- 77. what if we could see who was most expert in a topic, like on Quora?
- 78. what if our dashboard was more like Facebook’s News Feed
- 79. What if our Group pages were more like a Ning site?
- 80. What if we could see the Drupal community like you can see a Stack Exchange community?
- 81. What if the issue queue looked more like Stack Exchange?
- 82. what we’ve been working on...
- 84. Notifications Link to topic based activity ‘Digest’ emails of relevant activity Improve dashboard
- 90. we don’t need to scratch an itch we need a course of medication
- 91. Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect. (1846-1912)