What is Community Engineering?
summary
Defines community engineering as an intentional, operational plan to fix three false assumptions: “They know who we are”, “They know what we do”, “They will figure it out”. Lays out concrete fixes: go into other communities, train and pay dedicated community managers, give diversity leads authority and budget, run focused two‑day events for practitioners and executives. Claims unpaid volunteer work and lack of resourcing cause failures and cites shutting down a mentoring project as an outcome of overwhelm.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:43Credentials
- 2:16Inclusion and Diversity
- 4:38Community Engineering
- 7:06Why Community Engineering
- 13:00Challenges to Community Engineering
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