Tag: community

Introduction to Glockbot community

Let’s connect to build great products together Let me introduce myself before I start writing about this project . I’m the dev behind Glockbot TG Bot. I am a coding enthusiast on a mission to make technology not just functional, but also fun and entertaining!  Building ...

Your Community Is No Better Than Its Actions

After every heinous act committed in America, there’s an inevitable press conference or news release from a public official stating this “doesn’t reflect the values of our community.” Chatham, MA, is a small seaside town where two teenage white boys invited their Black &ld...

Your Community Is No Better Than Its Actions

I Don’t Know Where I’m Going

If you’ve read my work before, you might wonder, “Hey, I know who you are.” “Oh, you do?” I’d say in return. You would say, “You’re a writer, poet, community organizer, father, husband, and busy as hell.” All of those are true, yet I am more l...

Your Community Is No Better Than Its Actions

Upon the Natures of Hearing, and a Forwarding Community

I wonder of the little pitter patters. My niece gave me a star that looks like a notification for Medium. I thought ‘huh?, wow, this is, amazing.’ and I knew, that not only was family purposeful, but so was notifica-i mean…*looks around surreptitiously* getting likes and sub-da...

Upon the Natures of Hearing, and a Forwarding Community

The Rose Project: Portraits of the Trans Community

The Rose Project is a deeply personal portrait project dedicated to the beautiful trans community. It began after a friend and collaborator of mine, Cash Askew, passed away last year. She and I created a lot of wonderful images together, and I felt compelled to continue the project. It’s ca...

It Takes a Special Community to Make Street Art

It was an overcast day a few weeks ago when I set off from our home on 15th Street, walking toward Clarinda’s Lied Public Library. I had just passed the Sheriff’s Office with its American and Blue Lives Matter flags when I glanced over and saw this mural for the first time. Suddenl...

Independent Game Development and Community Support: The Path to Success

Introduction: Independent game developers often face numerous challenges when bringing their creative projects to life. However, one crucial factor that can assist independent developers in achieving success is community support. In this article, we will explore the importance of community supp...

Welcome to the Trim For Your Dream Community — Let’s Get Growing!

Hello everyone, We’re excited to announce that Trim For Your Dream is officially live on Steam for wishlisting! We’ve poured countless hours into creating a game that blends the hustle lifestyle with a touch of green entrepreneurship. This is the spot to share your thoughts, offer fee...

How to build community features within your video game

A community is a group of people. To gather people, you need leadership, tools and goals. But video games are only entertainment, right? So how and why are people building communities within single player games? What is “community driven”? Community driven games allow players i...

An Open Letter to the STARL Community

Dear STARL Community, We understand that you may have concerns regarding the recent lack of communication from STARL. While we have maintained our activity on our main Telegram channel, we have opted to adopt a lower profile on official media platforms for some time due to the reasons explained b...

Racism in the Gay Community in Amsterdam and the Netherlands: A Hidden Challenge

Racism within the gay community in Amsterdam and the Netherlands is a complex and often overlooked issue. A cursory search online reveals a startling lack of information, with only eight articles found in Dutch. Why is there such a scarcity of information on this subject? Is it indicative of a broad...

The Bangkok Ice Bath Community

The Bangkok ice bath community is more than just a group of people with a shared interest in ice baths. This thriving collective, born out of the success of Wim Hof Method workshops, has rapidly grown into an influential wellness movement within Thailand’s bustling capital, Bangkok. ...

Discovering Barcelona’s community gardens

Spending time in green spaces or bringing nature into your everyday life can benefit both your mental and physical wellbeing. Something I was seeking out when I moved from Bangkok to Barcelona last November. Initially I thought I wanted to get an allotment for myself, but realised especially after C...

Community Update (Week 43/2023)

OSSci is headed to Berlin this week for PackagingCon 2023. Please come and say hi if you happen to be there in person. On Thursday evening, we’ll be hosting an informal get-together in collaboration with PyData Berlin (venue to be determined shortly). No set agenda, just casu...

Story of a Community Lead Business That Started With A Potluck.

YES, This is the story of a little weekend market that began with a potluck, and it has since become one of the best places to enjoy Asian street food in Berlin. In the 1960s and 1970s, many Vietnamese people migrated to Germany after the war. In the 1990s, there was another significant wave of m...

Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023

Introduction The Ansible Community Day in Berlin 2023 is an event organized by The Ansible Community Team at Red Hat. It is designed to connect with people who use, contribute to, and develop the Ansible project globally. This event serves as a platform to engage with the diverse Ansible communit...

What I’ve learned about building community

I enjoy being around people. I have many friends, but for a while now, I felt I was done making new ones. If I had to count the friendships I made in my life (across places I lived, school and college, and work), I’d say: good enough. I felt ecstatic with the handful of individuals I call my c...

Copenhagen’s One-of-a-Kind Oval Community Gardens.

The “round gardens,” which are actually oval, are located in the Naerum suburban area of Copenhagen, Denmark. They are one of the most visually stunning allotment gardens in the world.Sren Carl Theodor Marius Srensen is widely regarded as one of the best landscape architects of all time,...

Community Spotlight: Jewel Ho, Data Analyst

From a young age, Jewel had a passion for volunteerism, participating in events such as flag selling. She later joined Toastmasters, where she took part in the “Youth Leadership Program”, where she held various workshops and adjudicated in public speaking competitions...

How to Host an Awesome Photowalk to Grow your Photography Community

During our annual team retreat in Portugal, the Pexels team hosted a photowalk in Lisbon. For a photo-centric startup like Pexels, a photowalk is a great way to connect with the local community and celebrate what we love most: taking beautiful pictures. Along cobblestone streets li...

This London is too small.

The topic of dating in London within the black community is one that frequents ‘black Twitter’. At times the conversations are mind-numbing, sometimes taking up a good part of our scrolls during the day once the masses get fired up during the debates, with multiple people repeating the s...

What’s important when recruiting people for a community project?

Those of you who have worked on a community project know how important and sometimes difficult it is to find the right participants. The Centre for Public Impact Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) is partnering with the City of Melbourne and Hinterland to experiment with ho...

How Tech Can Fast Track Community Solutions At Scale

The Miami-Dade Innovation Authority is a nonprofit established with seed funding committments of $3 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, $3 million from Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, and $3 million from Miami-Dade County (pending approval) to provide funding to innovative companies wo...

Community Cat Caregivers of Miami: A Non-Profit Organization That Helps Stray Cats and Their Human Friends

If you live in Miami-Dade County, you probably have seen many stray cats roaming around your neighborhood. Most of the time, these cats are not pets, but rather community cats, who live outdoors and depend on the kindness of human caregivers for food, water, and shelter. Some of these caregivers are...

Re-Building a “Dead” Tech Community

In 2018 I wrote a blog post about learning and teaching Ruby long after the (local) tech world considered it a dead language. For all my love for Ruby and Rails, one thing that was sorely missing was an active, local community in Tel Aviv. Fast forward to 2022, and a few weeks ago I att...

Colu in the community — Hugging the babies who need it the most

Last weekend, Colu was delighted to give a helping hand to a remarkable organisation making a real difference to the community. First Hug is a charity dedicated to helping the hundreds of babies abandoned at hospitals in Israel every year. Many of these babies have complex medical condi...

A Community of One-on-Ones

The Birthright Israel Excel community is a community by many definitions. It is first and foremost a Jewish community, one comprised of young adults, many of whom are still in the process of searching for their Jewish identity. Beyond the initial Jewish characterization, it is also a professional co...

Why You Shouldn’t Move To Waterdown: Sprawl and the Search for Community

The fact is I, like you, represent a destructive force that’s bringing the very thing I’m trying to escape from into this town, and, well, I got here before you. Walking down Parkside Drive on a cloudy November Sunday afternoon, through older neighbourhoods filled with unevenly-sp...

Community Update (Week 20/2023)

Scale By the Bay (SBTB) is a community conference for developers and global leaders in data, operations, ML, and the art and craft of software engineering. The 10th Anniversary SBTB will take place November 13–15, 2023 in Oakland, CA. New this year, an “Accelerate by the Bay“ ...

How a Green Bloc Community helped one mom build a stronger connection with her neighbours

Modern life is funny. We can live side-by-side with our neighbours — at times separated by only a thin wall — and still not really know who’s on the other side. We say, “Hello,” and exchange pleasantries, but for many, this life is wrought with isolation. But in four...

Designing a Regenerative Community Strategy

This article aims to provide insights into regenerative design as a fundamental and indispensable principle of community design by focusing on our explorations and learnings that emerged at our “Regenerative Community Jam” Workshop held in conjunction with Dutch Design Week at ...

Do not be indifferent to animals

The article written by Mia the Spitz’s community member — @krop4ikk (Discord Tag) There are many animal shelters in my country. I don’t want to touch on politics, but most likely this is due to the fact that now my country is giving more money to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But...

Give to the Max Day: A Celebration of Generosity and Community Impact

Minnesota, with its vibrant tapestry of nonprofits and educational institutions, has always been at the forefront of community-driven initiatives. One event that encapsulates this spirit of giving is the annual Give to the Max Day (GTMD). Approaching its 15th anniversary in 2023, the excit...

We Chose a 55+ Community — Should You?

So, you are nearing retirement or already retired and are considering moving. Maybe you are considering moving to downsize, or like my wife and me, you are looking for a way to tap into all that equity. Regardless, it is likely that you have given some thought to moving into a fifty-five and older c...

Getting Your Bushes Trimmed at the Retirement Community

We rent the land in our retirement community. We own our houses. It’s easy to understand who is responsible for what. If a shingle is loose on my roof, that’s my problem. If there is a pothole in my driveway, it’s not. But there are some gray areas. Our homes have lawns, rhodode...

Persistent ignorance of the intersex community of Pakistan.

Intersex people make up 1.7 of the world’s population. Despite this large number, the intersex community continues to be a subject of discrimination and violence. It has been reported that for many years, doctors around the globe have routinely operated on intersex people’s genitalia wit...

The Unspoken: What the Gay Community Won’t Tell You

Oh, social media, you double-edged sword! On one hand, it’s a platform for self-expression and connection. On the other, it’s like a 24/7 highlight reel of everyone else’s ‘perfect’ lives. It’s hard not to feel a tad inadequate when you’re scrolling through ...

White People & Conflict In Black Community Spaces

Whether we are intentional about it or not, everything we say and do, including what we write, comes from a series of lenses, intentions, and frameworks that help us shape the beliefs and narratives behind our actions. My intention for this paper is to offer what I have attained in my education of i...

Beyond the App — 5 Steps to Building a Community of Users

Whether you’re checking the weather, shopping for shoes, or tracking your sleep patterns — it seems like there’s an app for everything. According to a July 2015 report from Statista, Android users could choose from 1.6 million apps in the Google Play Store. The Apple App Store...

Level 3.0: Supporting Businesses Led by Women of Color and Growing the B Corp Community

Business leaders who identify as women of color represent one of the fastest-growing entrepreneur groups in the United States — and they hold unique potential for community and economic impact. They also continue to face barriers to funding and other business development resources. For the ...

Social Media and the Indigenous Community on Twitter

I personally think there should be more Journalists writing about Indigenous Peoples’ issues and bringing light to these important topics. It can be easy to get wrapped up in trending stories or big movements but I think all of these hashtags shouldn’t be in the shadows. These hashtags s...

Multiracial Mental Health (Part II): Healing in the Mixed Community

mental health and reduced coping resources, like not having peers who look like you or who understand your experience. Multiracial people are likely to not have grown up around many people with the same mix — and even then, that’s not a determinant of how you look or your racial identity...

100 to 0: Spotlight on the Samoan Community Development Center Community Hub

My name is Olive Pelesauma, but most people call me Tive. My current role at SCDC is a program lead for Ala Mai (Arise), an academic support program for Pacific Islander youth. However, since COVID and the opening of SCDC Community Hubs, I am currently one of the two Pod instructors for our Middle S...

Community Care During COVID-19: A Message To and From AAPIs

As we’re facing a once-in-a-generation crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important now than ever to center human connections and be a part of a movement for community care. This means that while we are experiencing physical distance from our communities, the compassion and lov...

White Accountability.

In this entire journey, it has been one population who has believed, seen, and responded to us; It has been the Asian American community, particularly the women. Almost exclusively the women! In our journey to escape. Who called the advocates to come for us? Who told us they would refrain from...

A Journey to the Center of ‘The Core’

The Core (2003) is notorious within the geoscience community for being one of the few big-budget movies to use geology and geophysics as its core (hah!) conceit, and then cramming in more scientific inaccuracies into its 135-minute runtime than any of us thought possible. I’ve attended mo...

Addiction and Unresolved Trauma in the LGBTQ+ Community

I could tell Rodolfo* was intoxicated as soon as he opened the door to his apartment. The slurry Spanish and smell of rum were the giveaways, plus he was always chattier after a few shots with his supper. Bottles lined the counter next to a half-eaten dish of enchiladas. Aware that Rodolfo was an al...

What is the Psychonaut Community’s Relationship with Mental Health?

The human relationship with psychedelics is unknown to the general mainstream consciousness but behind the veil of what we deem as a dangerous ‘Class A’ substance is a rich, fascinating, and spiritual history where humans and psychedelic substances have intimately intertwined and recipro...

Hunting For A Stronger Community?

“I think Shika deer is not too smart, but wild boars (shishi) are really smart,” said Toshiyasu Kuroki, who is an experienced trapper living in Nishimera, Miyazaki prefecture. Mr. Kuroki continued, “Some wild boars can detect the traps 20cm ahead of them. The clever ones would dig ...

Digital Community Heritage and Open Access

What is our current understanding of community? A community is a fluid, broad and multi-faceted concept, bound by a i. sense of identity, ii. sense of belonging and iii. interconnections among community members (Forsyth, 2012). Τhe UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultura...

Community Engaged Archives for Social Change

Densho’s archives and other digital offerings exist alongside longstanding partnerships with our community — both in Seattle and beyond — and close relationships with scholars, artists, and the media. We exist to empower, inspire, and help share the voices of the underrepresented. ...

Community Language Learning: An overview.

The CLL method was developed by Charles Curran. The latter was a specialist in counseling and a professor of psychology. Curran managed to apply the psychological counseling techniques to learning aspects, which resulted in a ‘Counseling-Learning theory’ represented by the CLL in teachin...