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Getting new impulses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our colleague Ivana Mad\u017earevi from Wikimedia Serbia gave input about the different aspects of community management<\/em>. She made clear that it\u2019s super important to have a solid foundation where you can build your community up on<\/em>. For engaging communities these foundations are knowing your values, defining a target group and choosing the right communication channels. For our project team SupplyChains who have already held events with their target group, she had the practical advice that they need to find the right balance in the number of events. If the events are too often people will get bored and if there are too few users might get lost. If there is not too much time in preparing the events you can just ask your members what they want to talk about and can alternate between different kinds of events like conferences, open discussions and involve community members as speakers. For the project FollowTheVote who want to keep their users engaged during the development phase of their app, she gave the tipp that it\u2019s nice to involve their users through different \u201cengaging\u201d features in the app, for instance a function to report bugs, a chat or an option for users to create meetups.\u00a0 To win a community in such an early stage it\u2019s always a good option to promote the product at partners’ events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Wunsch from the Social Entrepreneurship Netzwerk Deutschland<\/a> was talking about how to measure the impact of a project<\/em> and what needs to be done first to be able to see if a project is successful or not. Most important thing is that if a team comes up with an idea, it needs to make sure that you go out with it and test it as early as possible and then implement the learnings from this reality check and do this over and over again. To implement the controlling mechanismen of the impact measurement, Michael introduced the team to the impact model by Phineo<\/a> that is based on input output, outcome and impact they want to create<\/em>. The team of OpenSpeaks for example wants to reach the impact that accessibility is an integral part of all language documentation projects and therefore they want to build an open online platform to curate language documentation practices and solve specific issues related to accessibility. The team of GovDirectory wants people to actively participate in decision making and that making the decisions is more democratically founded and accepted. The outcome that leads them there is that through the GovDirectory, people can find where and how to contact the appropriate government agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our WMDE colleague and open licenses<\/em> expert Berd Fiedler introduced the different use cases of the licenses. Besides, he also highlighted the impact of making content or codes accessible to others: publishing under a free license helps other people for example in education or volunteering to have access to high quality content and beyond this, it\u2019s a great tool for collaborating and to push projects forward within the help of a community. If more people can use your work because it\u2019s for free, it\u2019s a big chance to maximize the output of a project and it helps to get a lot of publicity and distribution<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mia Kunert (WMDE)<\/a>, UNLOCK Sprint2 Impact Measurement<\/a>, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a> <\/figcaption>