Growing an Organization by Planting Volunteers
Avni Khatri &
Stormy Peters
1 out of 3 volunteers do not return the next year
http://www.nationalservice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/via_brief_retentio
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Does open source software do it better?
CRAZY?!?!
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Pat yourself on the back
1st Pycon
Hard to walk up and introduce yoruself
Remember the intro points
3 things today
• Growing community
• Keeping the web open
• Helping people be responsible
Why?
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What motivates you?
3 things today
• Growing community
• Keeping the web open
• Helping people be responsible
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Make it easy
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Vision & Direction
Clear processes
Make it clear what projects your org has going on and what
current volunteer needs are
Grow Leaders
Enable & Empower
Value Contributions
Extrinsic
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3 things today
• Growing community
• Keeping the web open
• Helping people be responsible
Avni Khatri@avni321
Stormy Peters@storming
Backup/temp Slides
Why?
Bounties
Need
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Skills
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Creative
Interesting
Community
3 things today
• Growing community
• Keeping the web open
• Helping people be responsible
Mentorship
Identify Passions
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3 things today
• Growing community
• Keeping the web open
• Helping people be responsible
What canpossibly
go wrong?
Not sharing what you are doing
Not being open
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Not helping new people
Not enough time
Not empowering
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Founders syndrome
Expanding your culture
Join whatever, stay culture
You get what you measure, show impact
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Grow community by:● Understanding motivations● Finding passion● Enabling it