Drumbeat/events/toronto/agenda/sessions/drumbeatorg
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Contents
- 1 What people are expecting to talk about
- 2 The most important thing for Drumbeat.org is to be a funnel and succeed in the following ways
- 3 Other examples of meaningful contribution sites
- 4 What are Drumbeat Projects about?
- 5 How to we raise the profile of people within the drumbeat community
- 6 Takeaways
What people are expecting to talk about
- How drumbeat.org will be a model social media - C
- How you can see how we've already contributed - M
- An echo beat - a drumbeat for another social cause and open source it - S
- Learn - G
- Playing a technical role on drumbeat - P
- How it can be an amazing and compelling space - C
- How we can use Drumbeat.org - T
- Finding out if we fit on Drumbeat.org -
- How do we pitch drumbeat to people - D
The most important thing for Drumbeat.org is to be a funnel and succeed in the following ways
- Raise money
- Come to a page and you can:
- understand what the project is
- understand what the project needs
- drive real participation around a project (can we use the Mozilla model for drumbeat projects)
Meaningful engagement is the challenge in Drumbeat
Other examples of meaningful contribution sites
Amazee (http://www.amazee.com/) How do we avoid the Facebook kind of experience Open Knowledge Foundation (http://www.okfn.org/) It Global (http://www.tigweb.org/)
What are Drumbeat Projects about?
- Open inside better, better inside open?
- What are the values of a Drumbeat project (Open, Participatory, Innovative,
- A drawing explaining - what is this for you, how can we help you?
- What is the low hanging fruit? Perhaps the people who were at the event today?
- Perhaps do some targeting navigation on the site - project categories by interest (education, technology, civics, accessibility)
- Use the taxonomy to help people find the projects that really interest them
How to we raise the profile of people within the drumbeat community
- Do we want to create a badging system or some kind of web karma
- Is there a way to find how competencies fit in - use the CRM to make a marketplace to connect people who need
Takeaways
- We need a smarter taxonomy to help people navigate the site and link people and projects better (can we make that a drumbeat project) - could we add in meta tags? (A search and discovery system)
- Invite more people to come test with us
- Continue to use the events to pull people into the online site
- Connecting coders with people who have ideas - putting the value proposition up front connecting people with projects (but setting up some kind of parameters on this)
