Community and Communication Team

The Community and Communication Team are responsible for things like:

• Creating content around CKAN including general promotional and informational materials
• Managing the primary CKAN website ()
• Social media
• The regular CKAN “News Bulletin”
• Community Outreach and Engagement including with key users and user communities
• Press management and engagement.

Current Members

Steven De Costa

Link Digital

Executive Director of Link Digital, member of the Steering Group and Community Team Lead for the CKAN Association and founder of DataShades.com. He is former national organizer of GovHack.org and Board member of Open Knowledge Australia.

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Community and Communications Team Meetings

The Team will have regular online meetings (twice monthly). Members are expected to attend at least one meeting a month and to participate in the dedicated mailing list.

A regular schedule for team meetings will be organised as the team grows.

Public Discussions

Please feel free to follow the public discussion for Community and Communication topics

Or, drop into one of the regular CKAN meetups organised by @starl3n. Dial in details are posted for each meetup here: http://www.meetup.com/Asia-Pacific-CKAN-Meetup/

How to become a Community and Communications Team member

• Be able to demonstrate your passion for open data
• Be willing to be a public evangelist for the CKAN project; such as via public speaking, social shares, personal blog posts, etc.
• Demonstrated understanding of the project through direct experience or association in a similar area; such as openGLAM, openGovt, etc.
• Be able to bring something uniquely valued to the team; such as professional skills in writing, community management, graphic design, etc.
• Lastly, ask the Team Lead how you can start to help.

Note that decisions about appointing new members is ultimately taken by existing Community and Communications Team members and is at their discretion. However, we are likely to be an indiscriminate bunch who will take all the help on offer :)