Building an
open community
Feedback from the M2M trenches
Benjamin Cabé — EclipseCon 2013
M2M?
(Machine-to-Machine)
Technology that supports
wired or wireless
communication
between devices
50 billion
devices by 2020
Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group
Tools (Koneki)
Frameworks (Mihini)
Protocols (Paho)
First successes late 2012
For us, it's as simple as:
Your website must tell…
What your project is about
How to try stuff
How to contact you
Ready-to-use deliverables
RCP distributions
Packaged binaries
Cherish your early adopters
Have tangible demos
Reach out to other communities
Developer Conferences
Tradeshows
Community manager
toolbox
Slideshare
Share your slides
Monitor who favorites, downloads them
Twitter + your reader of choice
Monitor hashtags related to your project(s)
Engage people (especially complainers!)
YouTube
Screencasts
Live demos
Channel to aggregate content
Stack Overflow
Answer questions, even very old ones
Look for existing answers that need to be complemented
Github
Monitor forks of your projects
Look for people using your technology
Google Alerts
Discover who talks about you (almost) immediately
IFTTT
Automate your monitoring tasks
Google Analytics
Track your referrals
Analyse the search queries
LinkedIn
Monitor groups
Post news, relay blog posts
Get your management on board
# of visitors on your project's website
# of downloads
In a nutshell
Engage
Be very public
Get your management buy-in ASAP
