The idea of a community # In the traditional sense, a community refers to a society made up of people in the same place, region, or country. That is the sociological definition.
When we talk about community operations, the community here usually means an online community (below simply “community”).
An online community is an online platform that gathers users who share common traits and provides interactive services.
This post uses macOS as an example and shows how to build a free blog with GitHub and Hugo. It is a beginner-level tutorial.
GitHub and Hugo basics # GitHub # GitHub is a hosting platform for open-source and private software projects. It provides distributed version control with Git and source code management.
Community operations is still unfamiliar to many people. Operations as a role is relatively young. Many people are not sure what operators do, what responsibilities they have, and who is suitable for the job.
Based on my experience, I will share what kind of people are suited to community operations and what skills are needed.
Interest comes first # Even if many jobs do not match personal interests, I believe you need genuine interest if you want to do community operations. Interest gives you the motivation to continue.
As I mentioned in the previous two posts, event operations are crucial for community operations. Using an offline open-source meetup as an example, I will walk through how to organize a community event.
This post is long. If you prefer, scroll to the end for the mind map.
Clarify the purpose # Before organizing an event, we must first clarify the purpose: why are we holding it, and what outcome do we want?
I have always had some ideas about how to read books. Even if I do not always follow them, I want to write them down in case they help others.
Before reading a book, what preparations do you make?
Do you study the author’s life? The context of the book? Make a reading plan?
In my mind, reading a book can follow these steps.
1. Clarify the purpose # We read for a reason; we rarely read purely for reading itself.
In the previous post I mentioned that I joined QingCloud at the end of January 2021 as the operations manager for the KubeSphere open-source community. It has now been a year and a half.
Before this role, I knew little about open source. Fortunately, I already had more than four years of experience in technical communities, and there are similarities between the two, so I adapted quickly.
Of course, the twt community and the KubeSphere community are very different, so operations methods differ as well. In this post, I use the KubeSphere community to share what I have learned about open-source community operations and the surprises of this work.
I will share what a community is, how to operate one, and what I have learned.
I graduated in 2014. In my first two years after graduation, my work was close to my major, ecology. But I felt the future was limited and wanted change. After some basic research, I decided to move to Beijing and enter the internet industry.
In April 2016, I moved from Jinan to Beijing and became a community operator at the twt community. At the end of January 2021, I left and joined QingCloud, becoming the operations manager for an open-source community (the KubeSphere community).
