Ideally, this is the place where we can follow the checkpoints, precisely schedule and prioritize tasks.
Target audience
- Developers interested in open-source projects
- Blockchain enthusiasts and experts
- Data privacy advocates
- Tech-savvy individuals who value data security and decentralisation
- Organisations looking for secure, decentralised data storage solutions
- Needs and interests: data privacy, decentralised storage, open-source development.
- Value proposition: improved data privacy, Security, opportunity to contribute to an innovative open-source project.
- User personas: separate personas for users and contributors, each with unique goals, motivations, and pain points. For instance, a user persona might be a privacy-focused individual looking for secure data storage, while a contributor persona might be a developer seeking meaningful open-source projects.
- Regularly review and update these personas as you learn more about your community.
What success looks like for community growth ?
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number of new users
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number of active users
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- User Growth Rate This measures the rate at which new users are joining your community.
- Active Users The number of users who are actively using your platform or participating in the community.
- Contributor Count The number of people contributing to your open-source project.
- Community Engagement Track likes, shares, comments, and other interactions on your community platforms.
- Retention Rate Measures how many users stay active over a given period. High retention indicates that users are finding value in your community.
- Net Promoter Score (NPS) This measures community sentiment towards your project. It can be collected through surveys asking users how likely they are to recommend your project to others.
- Professional, user-friendly website
- Mobile friendly
- Profiles on relevant social media platforms
- Blog to share updates, success stories, tutorials, etc.
- Developer portal with resources
- Documentation
- Forums
- SEO compatible regular updates at multiple platforms
- Plan regular blog posts and updates
- Engaging content for social media
- Webinars
- Workshops
- Tutorials and guides for users
- Tutorials for developers
- Apps portal
- Consistent documentation
- Github pages
- Respond to comments and questions on social media and forums
- Regularly engage with followers on social media
- Acknowledge and celebrate community contributions
- Organise virtual meetups or AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
- Announce the grant program
- Plan hackathons
- Coding challenges
- Set up a referral program
- Offer badges and certifications for active contributors
- Partner with universities and coding bootcamps
- Collaborate with influencers in the blockchain
- Collaborate with open source space
- Seek sponsorships or partnerships with related projects or companies
- Provide a door-drug easy to use basic dapp to pull in users
- Ensure intuitive UI/UX for your application
- Provide easy-to-follow guides for using your application
- Offer reliable and accessible customer support
- Channels for feedback
- Regularly ask for feedback from users and developers
- Implement changes based on feedback received
- Swarm and FDS's relation well communicated - point to the sunny side.
- Regularly review metrics and progress towards goals
- Adjust strategy based on what's working and what's not
- Keep up with changes in the industry
- Adjust your strategy as needed
- How to access my data ?
- Not easy to access my data without running bee node.
- multiplatform examples that WORK
- fdp-play documentation
- docker stack
- how to ensure my data is private
- how to revoke access
- add single sign-on documentation
- extensions are misconception and people will not use it
- public infrastructure documentation
- available developer infrastructure
- we should stop using extensions - too many edge cases (multiple browser, no mobile support)
- android app for password
- reliance on gateways is bad
- how to run bee in browser ? running bee on ios https://github.com/onepeerlabs/bee-lite but can't be compiled for wasm because of cgo requirements for libraries
- How to access my data ?
- architectural video ? where
- if you have webminars, can they be searched ?
- have transcripts for videos
- encourage more use of stackoverflow
- project management discussions public - searchable
- cow protocol
- review grant applications
- element of spray & pray
- smaller grants in scale, to get reputation and then grow from there
- you get people in, but you also need to support them
- regulary touch base with grantees - sdks and docs
- a few smaller grants, devs are mercs
- then some larger grants
- bounties through gitcoin (need support from social media)
- grant to implement tracking
- social media engagement / tracking
- dune analytics - grant
- registring ens metrics,
- how to do user rentention
- growth rate - dune analytics dashboard
- growin community is a problem