Global Melt/Value
Contents
Values - Team 1
- John - Wikimedia
 - Michelle - Mozilla
 - Claudia - KDE
 - Charlie - friend of Mozilla
 - Siebrand - translatewiki.net
 
For participants
- Hard to define the value proposition. Easy for organisers, but we need to focus on the value for
 
the participant.
- Community summit - I love meeting my friends whom I work with every day in real life.
 - Better understanding of the person on the other side of the line. Interfacing, improving relationships.
 - Getting context.
 - Reality check/Feedback on ideas or concepts in more understandable and sane ways.
 - Group thinking (?)
 - Learn, find out, get informed, get choice.
 
Summary
- Getting a reality check on ideas and concepts
 - Fulfill the need for belonging and having and deepening social real-life relationships
 - Get information on familiar and unfamiliar topics
 
For organisation
- Community summit - Results in code, decisions, strengthened community, outreach leading to new community.
 - KDE has newbie quota for sprints.
 - Growth of the contributor base, knowledge transfer, continuity of community.
 - Community binding/bonding.
 - Providing context and gathering feedback.
 
Summary
- Acceleration of loads of stuff
 - Outreach kills groups thinking
 - Boosting community health
 
Materials
- Mentorship programme for event organising
 - Guidelines for event organising
 - 10 steps to organising an event that sucks
 - outreach toolbox
- best practice examples
 - don'ts
 - checklists
 
 
Values - Team 2
Motivations
- Networking
- Sharing knowledge
 
 - Cross-cultural melting
- Trying to understand how people work
 - ..collaborate
 - strengthening existing ties
 
 - Building a common ID within an organization
 - Having common definition, understanding, messages (languages)
 - Realizing one of the goals of the organization, for the local community (regional level)
 - being part of the Zeitgeist
 - being part of something fun
 - spreading the message
 
Actual Values
Value to the world
- Networking
- Sharing knowledge
 
 - Having common definition, understanding, messages (languages)
 - Meaningful procreation
 
Communities are transformed.
Value to the organization
- Having common definition, understanding, messages (languages)
 - Realizing one of the goals of the organization, for the local community (regional level)
 - Building a common ID within an organization
 - Cross-cultural melting
- strengthening existing ties
 
 - Being able to shape the communication in detail, and communicate complex values
 - spreading the message
 
Organizations communicate.
Value to the participant
- Networking
- Sharing knowledge
 - Finding like-minded people
 - Forming partnerships
 
 - Having common definition, understanding, messages (languages)
 - being part of the Zeitgeist
 - being part of something fun
 - Cross-cultural melting
- Trying to understand how people work
 - ..collaborate
 
 - Learning the message
 
Participants discover, learn, meet, have sex, etc.
Actions
- Simple set of guidelines for people willing to organize events (event kit)
 - Drafting a social relationship service for the open web (community)
 - Forming a specific collaboration between the groups here, to serve as a practical model