Community Capacity Development/Ukrainian 2016/Archive 1

Project plan: main project

Challenge

Conflicts take too much time and energy from community; Newbies find it hard to integrate because of newbie-biting

Goal

Increase community capacity to manage conflicts

Key steps

1. Understand and baseline community interest in conflict management training Done
2. Identify suitable trainer Done
3. Conduct pre-training survey In progress…
4. Schedule in-person training In progress…
   1. date Done
   2. venue
   3. international travel Done
   4. domestic travel
   5. logistics (refreshments etc.)
5. Hold in-person training with external expert (May 2016)
6. Conduct post-training survey (May 2016)
7. Conduct follow-up survey 3 months after training (August 2016)
8. Evaluate and write final report (September 2016)

Evaluation

Community survey before and after training, to assess: perceived level of conflict (as perceived by two groups: those participating in frequent conflicts, and those who rarely participate in conflicts), the frequency of certain topics of conflicts, the frequency of certain behaviors (e.g. off-topic abusive behavior).

Project plan: side project

Challenge

New contributors retention is low

Goal

Design and conduct an experiment aimed at improving retention

Key steps

1. Brainstorm possible experiments In progress…
2. Obtain baseline retention data
3. Select experiment; agreed on method and duration
4. Obtain community consent for proposed experiment
5. Implement experimental change
6. Assess experiment results at end of experiment
7. Evaluate and write final report

Evaluation

TBD