Presented by Philippe Krief

1. Community Building
Philippe Krief, PhD
Research Relations Director
Eclipse Foundation Europe
philippe.krief@eclipse-foundation.org

2. WHY YOU NEED A DEVELOPER COMMUNITY
Move from Few to Many

3. To protect
your assets
Sustainability

4. To improve
your assets
Innovation, Debugging
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

5. To spread
the word
Dissemination

6. And to protect your Human Resources

7. HOW TO BEHAVE WITH
AN (EXISTING) DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

8. Meet the Community
• Conferences
• Local events, user groups
• Bars !

9. Understand the Community

10. Feed the Community
Channels
• Academic channels
• Social media:
– Show Progress
– Stay in Touch
• Webinars
• Press
• Websites
• Wikis
Assets
• Getting Started
• Samples
• Code Snippets
• News &
Noteworthy
• Technical Videos
• Presentations

11. Train the Community

12. • Hackathons
• Open Calls
• Challenges / Contests
Engage YOUR Community

13. Respect YOUR Community
• Be responsive
– Mailing lists
– Bug reports
– Forums “Every bug report is a love letter”
Erich Gamma

14. Reach out other Communities

15. Your Community is Brilliant !
©PhKrief
Bangkok,
Thailand

16. WHERE DO YOU FIND DEVELOPERS

17. JUG
DemoCamps
EclipseDays

18. Workshops
Technical presentations

19. With over 3,000 attendees,
Devoxx yearly events are the
biggest vendor-independent
Java conference in the
world.

20. Free and non-commercial
yearly event organized by
the community, for the
community

22. Questions?

23. Thanks !
Philippe Krief
philippe.krief@eclipse.org

24. Resources
• Ph.Krief
• Wikipedia
– https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Messager_boiteux.jpg
– https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:1912_rugby_equipe_1ere_01.jpg
– https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obama_inaugural_address.jpg
– https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Repair-hubble-1-training.jpg
• EclipseCon Flickr
– https://www.flickr.com/search/?group_id=2814413%40N25
• Pixabay
– https://pixabay.com/en/queen-cup-honeycomb-honey-bee-337695/
• MaxPixel
– http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/static/photo/1x/Earth-Protect-Protection-Globe-Hand-Handful-Of-442906.jpg