Join me as I look at what it takes to start and run a user group community.
Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People
A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL.Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them.In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally.The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.
Building Welcoming Communities
Building a community that encourages people to use, contribute to, and evangelize your project.
How to Build a Community: Starting with "why?".
To build a successful community, you have to be aligned on the why behind it. Turns out, there's a lot of wrong answers to this question!
Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.
START A COMPUTER CLUB
a computer club is where a group of people hang out and do computer together
The Omg Lol Times · community.txt
Communities shouldn’t be opaque. When someone considers joining one, they shouldn’t have to wonder what the group is really all about, or whether they’ll feel welcome there or not. Ideally there would always be some kind of window they could look through—a way to take a peek at the who, what, and why of the space. (We’re lucky to have such a window of our own, but not every online space does.)
What is a Group Host? - at:// pizza thoughts
Describes an hosting pattern for Atmospheric Group accounts, including group creation and app authorization flows
How to run a small social network site for your friends
This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.
Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
Thoughts on Communities | unDraw Blog
Even with the best intentions and people eager to join, most attempts to create communities fail and will continue to do so.
How to Build and Develop a Community from Scratch
Learn how to build and develop a community from scratch with these six top takeaways from CMX.
User & Agents - Open Collective
User & Agents is a community focused on increasing user agency in the software we use every day.
Announcing Bonfire for communities: groups and tools to organise together
Groups and topics, community rules and decision-making, events, organisation profiles, federated comments, custom themes: built with the communities who needed them, ready to use as-is, or to shape into a flavour of your community's own.
Bonfire — build your community a world of its own
A space a community owns together, shaped to how you already gather, and connected to the whole open social web on your own terms.
We're launching a community server on Discord! It's a space for folks who contribute, build on, or use Bridgy Fed and Bounce, and a place for folks to support each other through any issues they may run into. That said, we know Discord isn't everyone's ideal choice - it's not ours either... 1/🧵
Join the A New Social Discord Server!
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