Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Forthcoming Book: The Art Of Community

[Michael Barrett (mbarrett]

To me one of the more intriguing aspects of the community inside Open Source, 
Technology and Media is that, I will guess, a majority of that community may 
only very rarely meet face-to-face with other members of the community, as most 
of their communication may be almost exclusively through their computers.  If 
this is so, what similarities and differences exist between these two 
communities formed by i) a specific technology and ii) cohousing?

Michael Barrett
Shadowlake Village, Blacksburg, VA, where an exceptionally warm day today 
prompted 
an early start to the summer Saturday evening cookouts.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred H Olson" <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
To: "-cohousing-L mailing list" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 7:59 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ Forthcoming Book: The Art Of Community


>
> A while back I got a message that said in part:
>
> We're looking for your stories on building community
>
> We're working on a new book called the "The Art Of Community: The Book
> On Building Community" by author Jono Bacon and we need your help.
>
> Get your community featured in The Art Of Community!
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Jono explains:
>
> "Hi everyone! I am really excited about making The Art Of Community a
> diverse, wide-ranging guide to building strong community. I am really
> excited about hearing community stories from a range of areas, inside
> and outside of Open Source, Technology and Media. If you have
> interesting (and possibly amusing) stories that you feel illustrate
> interesting examples of building processes, setting up infrastructure,
> creating buzz and excitement, managing conflict, organizing events,
> communicating effectively, scaling up community, measuring your work or
> anything else, I would love to hear your story. Simply send me an email
> to jono [at] jonobacon.org with a short Bio of yourself and your story. If
> it fits well in the book, I will be sure to add it. Thanks everyone!"
>
> So there you have it: get your community featured in the hot new
> community book from Jono Bacon. Jono is busily writing, so send your
> stories in as soon as possible!
>
> -- end excerpt --
>
> You may have wondered what the reference to:
> "inside and outside of Open Source, Technology and Media." referred to.
> This message came to me over a mailing list related to the free / open
> source Ubuntu Linux Operating system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu
>
> It turns out that this book is related to a significantly different
> perspective on "community building", namely amongst people involved with
> the cooperative development of software - a movement that is known by
> various terms but probably most often "Open Source". See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
>
> The similarity of the language to that used in the Cohousing and
> Intentional Communities movement led me to correspond with
> Jono, the writer.  He responded:
>
>> Your community sounds really interesting - I was not
>> familiar with cohousing, but it looks fascinating. I am really keen to
>> include some non-Open Source community content in the book, and this
>> looks fantastic! :)
>
>> Also, would you mind telling your community about the Art Of Community
>> book? I think it could be of interest, particularly as it will be
>> available in print and also under a free Creative Commons license. If
>> you could just point your community to the website at
>> http://www.artofcommunityonline.org that would be great - I update
>> that site regularly with news about the book. :)
>
> It seems to me that it may be useful to build bridges between diverse
> forms of community building. So I encourage you to check this out and
> maybe submit and idea for his book.
>
> The original message continued:
>
> Related Links:
> --------------
>
> * Art Of Community website - http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/
> * Twitter Updates - http://www.twitter.com/jonobacon
> * identi.ca Updates - http://identi.ca/jonobacon
> * Art Of Community Facebook Page -
>    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-of-Community/58251029357
> * Jono Bacon's Website - http://www.jonobacon.org/
>
>
> Read on for more information about the book--
>
> Every software project, online site, or company has to manage the
> community of interested people surrounding it. The community is the
> source of new ideas, a reliable support network, and the best marketing
> tool. When money is tight, making the best use of the community is even
> more critical.
>
> Author Jono Bacon <http://www.jonobacon.org/> has been building and
> managing communities for over a decade, particularly in areas of Open
> Source software such as KDE and Ubuntu. He is currently Community
> Manager for Ubuntu, probably the largest community in the Open Source
> software area. His experience and his relationships with other
> communities and leaders provide a rich and deep well of expertise for
> this book.
>
> In The Art of Community you'll experience the broad range of talents
> required to recruit members, motivate them, manage them, and make them
> happy to be part of your community, online or otherwise. Bacon takes you
> through the different stages of community and covers the information
> you'll need, ranging from software tools to conflict resolution skills.
> The Art Of Community underlines and illustrates this large body of
> knowledge with a compendium of stories, anecdotes and tales that bring
> the concepts to life. Bacon's amusing and witty writing style makes the
> Art Of Community a fun read that is sure to help you build strong,
> effective and engaging communities.
>
> As Bacon writes The Art Of Community, a new community is gathering
> around the book at http://www.artofcommunityonline.org where he is
> regularly providing writing updates, sneak peeks of the content, news
> and discussion about building strong community.
>
> The Art Of Community will be published by O'Reilly and also available
> online under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial ShareAlike license.
>
> Fred
>
> --
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