Building an open community

Feedback from the M2M trenches

Benjamin Cabé — EclipseCon 2013

M2M?

(Machine-to-Machine)

Technology that supportswired or wirelesscommunicationbetween devices

50 billion

devices by 2020

Fragmentation

Complexity

Lock-in

Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group

Tools (Koneki)

Frameworks (Mihini)

Protocols (Paho)

Created in October 2011

First successes late 2012

How?

Work on your vision

For us, it's as simple as:

Lower the barrier

Your website must tell…

What your project is about

How to try stuff

How to contact you

http://m2m.eclipse.org

Ready-to-use deliverables

RCP distributions

Packaged binaries

Engage your community

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

M2MIWG channel on YouTube

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

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

Metrics

# of visitors on your project's website

# of downloads

More details

In a nutshell

Engage

Be very public

Get your management buy-in ASAP

Thanks!

@kartben

http://blog.benjamin-cabe.com