Community Knowledge Base

Welcome to the community knowledge base!

This page is here to provide an index of documents and articles that can help you build strong, vibrant communities. It is encouraged that the community create new articles to help expand and grow our existing documentation to help create even better teams. If we all work together to expand this documentation, we can create a pretty compelling resource.

If you want to add a document to the Knowledge Base, see this page.

Guides / HOWTOs

This section contains guides and HOWTOs for doing things effectively in the Ubuntu community, from setting up resources to resolving issues and being productive.

Team Processes

Things that all teams should be doing.

• Team reporting - reporting to the wider project what your team is working on

Team Resources

• Creating your team wiki homepage - how to create a homepage for your team on the Ubuntu wiki

• Sample Team Wiki Site - see this collection of suggested wiki pages for a sample team and use them as the basis for your own team.

Events

• Running Team IRC Sessions - how to run discussion, training, show and tell or other team related sessions via IRC

• Booking #ubuntu-meeting - how to book the #ubuntu-meeting IRC channel

• Running a Release Party - how to organise and run an Ubuntu Release Party.

• Running community Ubuntu stands at shows/conferences - a guide to running an exciting, dynamic, well staffed stand at a conference

• Running an Ubucon - a guide to running a community-driven Ubucon event

Working effectively

• Team Workflow - Look here for ideas and examples on how to create team workflow

• Building Buzz - How to get the word out on things.

• Keeping People Motivated - some hints, tips and techniques for keeping people in your team motivated to carry on contributing

Disputes and Conflict

• Dealing With Conflict - how to deal with conflict in your team

• The role of the Code Of Conduct in Disputes - some notes about where the Code Of Conduct plays a part in dispute and conflict resolution

• Taking Conflict To The Community Council - a guide to what to do when taking conflict issues to the community council

Governance

• BuildingCommunity/TheCaseForGovernance - When, why and how your community needs formalized governance

• BuildingCommunity/LearningFromTheLeaders - Learn from existing successful governance structures

• BuildingCommunity/SettingUpACommunityCouncil - How to bootstrap your community governance structure

• BuildingCommunity/ExpandingGovernance - When and how to expand your governance structure

• BuildingCommunity/UbuntuGovernanceLinks - Links to further reading on how Ubuntu is governed

Handling Conflict

(this section is work in progress)

• BuildingCommunity/Conflict/NatureofBeast - The nature of conflict

• BuildingCommunity/Conflict/CalmBeforeStorm - Signs of impending conflict, what to look out for

• BuildingCommunity/Conflict/Resolution - How to resolve issues of conflict

• BuildingCommunity/Burnout - The big B word

Articles, Blog Entries and Multimedia

Blog entries and articles:

• Misinformation: The Enemy Of Community by Jono Bacon

• Transparency in process by Jono Bacon

• The Increasing Importance of Community by Jono Bacon

• Hindsight is Always 20/20 by Jono Bacon

• Advocating honesty by Jono Bacon

• How To Build a Community: Part 1 by Kathy Sierra

Multimedia:

• How To Herd Cats And Influence People by Jono Bacon

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