Towards a Healthy & Resilient Scala Community
summary
Scala Center runs a governance project that maps stakeholders, creates the Scala Improvement Process, recruits moderators, and pilots Asset-based Community Development practices; it projects concrete 2025 outcomes like 300 new businesses, 70 universities, 40 conferences, 3,000 active contributors and reports higher retention in mock studies. The team is twelve people with essentially two full-time community staff, so success depends on companies donating time or sponsorship and volunteers committing roughly five hours a month to make working groups and moderation scalable.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:04Current state of Scala community
- 5:27Scala Center's role and limitations
- 10:24Governance project overview
- 15:49How to get involved in Scala
- 19:51Adam Goodman's introduction
- 21:59Challenges of open source governance
- 24:44Asset-based Community Development
- 32:09Key assets in Scala community
- 37:09Psychological safety in communities
- 43:18Starting with your gifts
- 45:27Q&A session
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