Community Canvas

@chrismessina Thanks so much for hunting the Canvas Chris! We're excited to have launched it after three years of work. Great communities can be such a powerful way to connect people and share experience and knowledge. But building and maintaining communities is hard. That's where the Canvas can provide guidance and structure - whether you're trying to build a new community, or improve an existing one. We're grateful for any feedback or thoughts from other community builders!

@chrismessina thanks so much for your support Chris, very much appreciate it and would love to hear if you have any advice on how to improve future versions of the Canvas. Thank you!

Thank you very much @halbluchs for putting this guide together. I'm building a maker community of my own and this has given me some good guidance.

@pforti It would be awesome if you could share anything new that you've learned since releasing this guide. I've got a few new ideas with your guidance so far.

@victoria_ivanova we've built the Canvas based on observations from many different kinds of communities, would LOVE to hear any ideas you have how to improve it or how we could make it more practical for community builders!

@pforti @victoria_ivanova I'd like to see different scenarios where you deconstruct communities like: reddit or quora and show us how it really works with the philosophy of canvas.

@dardanth - yeah that's what we're thinking for next step: case studies of different kinds of communities and lots of examples!

@futi and we'd love to hear your feedback!

@futi Totally agree

@pforti I like it! Hopefully in the future there is a 2.0 version I was hoping for their to be more real-world examples (that may be a selfish criticism, because that's the best way that I learn), but I think your Facebook Group is a great substitute. Thanks for all the work behind this!

@syedaliahmed Thank you Ali and hope to see you soon!

@syedaliahmed Thanks Ali!

@camroncade thanks so much! The Canvas is def work in progress. We hope to work with community builders across the globe to make this more complete and valuable in future versions, please let us know if you have any feedback or advice on how to improve it! Future versions will also include case studies and more example.

@pforti Sounds awesome. Consider this my vote for both case studies and examples.

@daverad thanks so much, Daveo! Holstee has been a huge source of inspiration for the Canvas