Community Demos: Topic Ideas and Contributor Participation

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Hi everyone,

I’d like to share an idea for our community demos and invite feedback from the community.

We’ve been thinking about ways to make the demos even more engaging and to create more opportunities for different contributors to present their work. One idea is to encourage broader participation, with more people rotating through demo presentations and sharing things they’re working on.

These presentations wouldn’t need to be limited to brand-new features. They could also cover things like:

  • a bug fix
  • an interesting test case
  • a developer-focused demo
  • tooling or workflow improvements
  • or anything else that could be useful or interesting to the community

The goal is to highlight useful work, bring more variety to the demos, and give more contributors a chance to share their knowledge and experience.

Another idea we came up with is to prepare a list of possible demo topics in advance, so contributors who would like to present can choose something from that list if they want. We hope that might make it easier for more people to get involved.

To help keep ideas flowing, we’ll also start sending weekly reminders to add topics for upcoming community demos.

If there are topics you’d be interested in seeing in future community demos, please feel free to reply here and add them to this thread. And if you’d prefer, you’re also welcome to DM me directly with ideas or suggestions.

We’d love to hear your thoughts - both on the idea itself and on any topics you’d like to see covered in future demos.

Thanks!

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Foreman Community Demo #164
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This plan sounds great to me. There’s always so much development going on, so I think the reminders and idea list should go a long way. Do folks think it makes sense to just enumerate topic ideas in the community demo post each time? Or should there be one master list somewhere?

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For Inspiration, in addition to the usual technical topics, e.g.: features, user stories, design proposals, I also want to propose some more categories that also make for good topics in my book:

Category: “Collaboration Stories” – Anything along the lines of: “While working on xyz I experienced an example of particularly successful or interesting collaboration”

Category: “Dev tools and tricks” – Anything along the lines of: “I found tool/debugger/IDE feature xyz to be particularly helpful” or “This is how I script my API test workflows” or “This is how I interact with the production log” or “This is how I use forklift effectively” etc.

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I like the idea of having a dedicated list we can maintain over time, and then pick topics from it for each demo. That way we build a backlog of ideas while still keeping each community post focused and lightweight.