This talk focuses on community tips told through science fiction. While the topic is fun and a little silly, the lessons about communities are real and tangible.
Here are just a few of the things that I will talk about:
* Borg assimilation and bringing new community members into your collective for new ideas.
* Specialization is for insects. The best community members are the ones who can help in a wide variety of ways.
* Travel to strange new worlds and meet interesting people.
1. LESSONS ABOUT
COMMUNITY FROM
SCIENCE FICTION
Presentation available at http://fastwonderblog.com/speaking/
Dawn M. Foster
@geekygirldawn
dawn@fastwonder.com
University of Greenwich, PhD Student
2. WHOAMI
Geek, traveler, reader, PhD
student
20 year tech career. Past 15 years
doing community & open source
Read 73 books per year, 2 years
in a row, mostly sci-fi / fantasy
I keep a list:
http://fastwonderblog.com/about/reading/
Photos by Josh Bancroft, Don Park
20. THANK YOU
Dawn Foster
University of Greenwich, PhD Student
@geekygirldawn, dawn@fastwonder.com, fastwonderblog.com
Some of my favorite modern sci-fi / fantasy authors:
Hugh Howey, Lois McMaster Bujold, Brandon Sanderson, Connie Willis