Full translation of the book about building communities: "Social Architecture"

"This is the essence of thirty years of software development experiences."

Greetings, Habr.

I want to present the best (only) community building book written by tru ITishnik.

For myself, I found the applicable tools for analyzing the community / organization “on the fly” (I and more than 100 people conducted an “audit” of Habr ), as well as tips on what “ genotype ” to lay when developing a new product / brand / movement. Read, save, share and write your review.
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about the author

“Unfortunately, we do not choose death for ourselves, but we can meet her with dignity so that we will be remembered as men.”
- the movie "Gladiator"



Pieter Hintjens - Belgian developer, writer. He held the position of CEO and chief software designer at iMatix , a company that produces free software , such as the ZeroMQ library (the library takes care of some of the data buffering, queuing, connection establishment and recovery, etc.), OpenAMQ, Libero , GSL code generator , and the Xitami web service.

• Author of more than 30 protocols and distributed systems.
• Founder of the Edgenet project to create a completely secure, anonymous global P2P network.
• President of the Association for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) , which fought with patent law.
• CEO of the Wikidot Wiki Project.
• He was an open standards activist and founder of the Digital Standards Organization .
• In 2007, Peter was named one of the 50 most influential people in the field of “Intellectual Property”.

• Preface.
  - Wisdom of the crowd
• Chapter 1.
  - Toolkit
• Chapter 2
  - Emotional burnout of volunteers
  - How to capture / protect an open-source project
  - The myth of individual intelligence
  - Calculate the collective intelligence of Habr (and any other organization of people)
• Chapter 3
  - ZeroMQ Community
  - Psychology of software architecture
  - Importance of contracts
  - 4 steps to a self-governing community
• Chapter 4
  - Protocol for the C4 Collaboration
• Chapter 5
  - Design, development, innovation
  - Stratagem for success open source projects
• Chapter 6
  - Living Systems

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Online course: How to organize a community

You can apply for access to the first in Russia course on community organizing, that is, the technique of creating communities. The joint online course of Vector School and Rybakov Foundation “ How to Organize a Community ” is based on the practical method of Harvard University and supported by examples of 20 Russian projects from business, NGOs and cultural organizations that managed to unite people around them.

Course author

Karen Olson , a community organizer with 10 years of experience in the US, Europe and Russia, studied community organizing at Harvard with the author of this method, Professor Marshall Ganz. Karen was one of the 7 coordinators of the global Women's March, which gathered around the world millions of people in support of the values ​​of equality and diversity.

In the course of 10 lessons (20 hours)

Program

1. What is community
2. How to invent a community story
3. How to build community relationships
4. How to create a community leadership team
5. How to write a strategy for the community
6. How to learn to delegate responsibility and tasks
7. How to expand the community
8. How to organize an online community
9. How to find resources
10. Final assignment

Learn to

1. Set goals and formulate a strategy . Instructions and examples will help determine the goals and objectives around which you can bring people together.
2. Attract and inspire like-minded people . We will tell you how to find something that will inspire participants and help not to lose motivation until the end of the project.
3. Be a leader. Learn how to create a successful and sustainable leadership team that will become the core of the community, take over coordination and share responsibility.
4. Work with volunteers. Delegating responsibility to volunteers is risky, because they do not receive wages and are not responsible for the result. Learn to work with the motivation of the group to plan long-term work and bring it to the end.

Apply for a distance course on building communities .