LCA2016 Thursday Keynote - Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon spoke about how open communities are changing the world and how they may be improved in the future.

Community 1.0

• Early Free Software communities were built from observing other groups around them and figuring things out as they went along.
• Very high technical barrier of entry

Community 2.0

The Renaissance

• Allowed broader participation, with Wikipedia as an example.
• Knowledge had been built to allow people to start in the community from a common point
• Self organising groups
• Enabled greater diversity
• Companies began engaging with communities.

What Does 3.0 Look Like?

• How do we build effective reproducible communities?
  • Thoughtful and productive communities advance the human race,
• Sharing the knowledge on how to build effective communities is going to be
• Covered ubiquitous computing growth, 3D printing, Arduino etc
• Crowd funding as one method of empowering consumers.
• Not just consumption but empowering people to have better lives, key.
• We need to empower diversity in all it's forms.
• Openness is the greatest enabler.
• The principles of openness are flowing through all forms of technology, life and work.
• In a world worried about AI, we the people should be ensuring that it's open and taking control.

"Open Source is where society innovates" - Jono Bacon

• We need to crack predictable collaboration. Making great great community leadership available everyone.
• We can do better, we've only scratch the surface with our success thus far.

How do we do this?

• For self respect we need to contribute. To contribute we need access.
• Jono realised that his role as community manager was to help other contributors be as effective as possible with their time when they're contributing.
• Discussed the difference between system 1 and system 2 thinking.
• However behavioural economics is hard to apply in practice.
• The principles can be pulled out and used though.
• Discussed SCARF model of social threats and rewards.
• From this model we can figure out how to put this into practice.
  • We accomplish goals indirectly. Gave Boeing as an example.
  • We influence behaviour with small actions. Recommended the book Lunch.
• Build comprehensive rewarding experiences.
• Need to make building a successfully structured community easy.
• Described experiences from different stakeholder perspectives.

community_3.0 = {
    system 1 and 2 thinking +
    behavioural patterns +
    workflow +
    experiences +
    pacakaged guidance
}

The most important feeling we can create is a sense of belonging.