This is a presentation I held at Akademy 2010 about how to improve and grow an existing community.

1. 02.07.2010 | Tampere, Finland | Akademy 2010 Pimp My Community Lydia Pintscher (@nightrose)

2. Why?

3. your community and the rest of the universe by turbojoe@flickr

4. not your enemy by sebastian-silva@flickr

5. meet your enemies by The mofoJT@flickr

6. time by atelier_tee@flickr

7. insecurity by the U.S. Army@flickr

8. missing publicity/transparency by kigaliwire@flickr

9. barriers of entry by savannahgrandfather@flickr

10. failure to provide what they are looking for by bikeracer@flickr

12. social problems in your team by ceardach@flickr

13. missing diversity by ethanhein@flickr

14. technical problems by massenpunkt@flickr

15. the black magic aka tricks (use carefully!) by d4rr3ll@flickr Maintainers, maintainers, maintainers!

16. Use your social tools! by flattop341@flickr

17. Keep it together! by s-t-r-a-n-g-e@flickr

18. Make getting started stupidly obvious! by jon_marshall@flickr

19. Write it down! by jkim1@flickr

20. the magic 2 to 3 months by d4rr3ll@flickr

21. Make it someone's responsibility! by thunderchild5@flickr

22. the last resort – faking it by davidchief@flickr

24. Is the way in visible?

25. Is the why visible?

26. Are you giving them what they need?

27. Are the relationships in the community healthy?

28. Is the technical side of the project in order?

29. Questions? come to the community Q&A session at 10:30 on Thursday in area 1 catch me for private chats email community-wg@kde.org