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Communities

Site Name

communities.codidact.com

Description

The site is about part-time human communities. How to manage, run, create, participate in them and solve common problems.

Topics

Topics covered would include:

  • Advice on creating bylaws, for example along the lines of Robert's Rules of Order
  • Ensuring the smooth functioning of communities
  • Recruiting new members to the community
  • Integrating into a community as a member
  • How to structure the activities of the community given the needs of a member base
  • Examples of communities: Student clubs, neighborhood associations, hobby based meetups (books, games, movies, crafts), social mixers, friend groups, amateur sports leagues, coworking, casual investment clubs, facebook groups, forums, chatrooms, discord channels.
  • How to maintain the culture of the community
  • Online, offline and hybrid communities are on topic.

Exclusions

These topics or types of posts would be out of scope:

  • Social conflict within the community should only be discussed in the context of its effect on the community. For example, "a couple in my poetry club has broken up, how can I keep this from tearing the club apart?" is okay, "how do I get them back together?" is off topic (it has to do with their private lives, and not the club itself).
  • Community in the broad sense ("the journalism community at large") is off topic.
  • One off gatherings should probably be off topic. Something like a birthday party seems too fleeting to be called a real community. However, forming a "birthday committee" that regularly organizes parties for everyone would be on topic.

Special Features

I am open to ideas here. We could do fine without special features. But:

  • Online communities could advertise themselves
  • Federations of communities (like local disc golf teams in different cities) could describe themselves and encourage people to start their own version in their location
  • People can write about their success stories ("how I started movie club in my new town", "how I kept our DnD group going even after everyone graduated college")

Overlaps

We don't have a site like "interpersonal relationships" but if it existed there would be some obvious overlap. The line would be drawn around whether the interpersonal question affects the community itself.

We don't have sites about business, professional work, politics, religion etc. If we did, there would be some overlap there.

There is overlap with Webmasters because often sites have discussion boards or other participation.

There is potentially some overlap with meta.codidact.com. Questions specifically about CD should of course go there :)

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> Questions specifically about CD should of course go there Not sure why you wouldn't be able to a... (2 comments)
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Why are you proposing the restriction on full-time employees, even if only one person is? In your ch... (5 comments)
> Questions specifically about CD should of course go there Not sure why you wouldn't be able to a...
CrSb0001‭ wrote 7 months ago

Questions specifically about CD should of course go there

Not sure why you wouldn't be able to ask questions specifically about Codidact on the site, for example over on Community Building.SE on Stack Exchange there exists the stack-exchange, which is for questions about sites on the SE network.

matthewsnyder‭ wrote 7 months ago

I mean that, if you want to ask about organizing the Codidact community, that's a special case and it should be on the Codidact Meta. I was just trying to resolve the potential overlap.