Rosieland Roundup 244 — Organizing, community rounds, community data protection

👋 Welcome to another week in Rosieland!

Every week I spend hours researching so you don't have to!

🌈 What I shipped this past week:

• The Community Channel Creation Funnel
• Community channels as prototypes
• Do we really know best? Learning from community centered journalism.
• Architecture designed with community in mind

“Organizer” doesn’t start with a capital O. You are an organizer. | Shelby Sugierski

Sometimes when something feels formal and official it becomes overwhelming to process or commit to. I like this view point of organizing where it is about making order of something, which is something we can all do.

Organizing simply means: before where there were individual people going about their day, now there is a group of people who now know, or have done, some specific thing that did or will lead to some positive outcome(s)

Ongoing community data protection | Stack Overflow

There's a real challenge with community data. How to handle it. How to respect it. And how it can enable or support business models.

Socially responsible use of community data needs to be mutually beneficial: the more potential partners are willing to contribute to community development, the more access to community content they receive.

Eight Habits of Effective Bridge-Builders | Greater Good Magazine

Community people are natural bridge-builders, but often we are not given permission to cross the line of differences...

There is far too little reward for people who cross lines of difference, listen with curiosity to those we disagree with, humanize the “other,” and humbly acknowledge our blind spots as we learn from people who see the world differently.

How four expensive cards imploded Magic: The Gathering’s most popular format — The Verge

Community is complicated, I'm not even going to pretend I understand all the moving pieces behind the importance of these four cards. It is fun to learn from though!

Last week, the Commander Rules Committee, a volunteer panel of Magic: The Gathering experts, made the decision to ban four highly sought-after and powerful cards, prohibiting their inclusion in Commander decks. In response, some players began harassing committee members, which included sending death and rape threats. In addition to the rules committee, players also harassed members of the Commander advisory group, a subcommittee of Magic: The Gathering players and content creators who act as the bridge between the wider Commander community and the rules committee.