Community todos

In general

• Blog daily about ideas, needs, strategies, & successes.
• Create separate wiki pages for ideas and provide enough information so that volunteers and others can get involved.
• Follow through on commitments made to others, specifically, if you tell someone that you will find something for them, email them asap with a status report or that something.

Building sustainable communities

Entry points for new participants

• When people ask how they can participate, provide a system that allows them to, quickly and effectively.

  Time: find ways to get involved for five minutes or five hours.

  Skills/Needs: help match skills to activities where skills are needed.

  Place: help people connect within a geographic location, or in person; through large events or small meetups

• Prioritize: work on todo lists, use cases, milestones by project
• see also: Participate

Cluster communication

• IRC channels, mailing lists, AIM, Talk pages, Discussion threads: ways to connect around specific projects; suggest where to go to find a responsive audience by topic and theme
• Welcome newcomers; be nice.
• Report on successes (daily, on-wiki)
• Thanks, congratulations