The Orbit Model with Patrick Woods

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Orbit is a model for developer relations / software communities that goes beyond a “sales funnel” approach.

Patrick Woods @patrickjwoods is the CEO & founder of Orbit-the-company https://orbit.love, and they’re building tools to engage with your community using the Orbit model.

Join us for a discussion of the Orbit model, open source communities, how to define and measure success, community tooling, and more.

Patrick will give a short demo of the tool that Orbit has built to help manage and track your community.

We’ve got links to the Orbit Model in our Reading List –

Orbit Model of Developer Engagement

A model for developer relations / communities that goes beyond a sales funnel approach. The Orbit Model is a framework for building high gravity communities. A high gravity community is one that excels at attracting and retaining members by providing an outstanding member experience. The Orbit Model contains four fundamental concepts: Gravity, Love, Reach and Orbit Level: Love is a member’s level of engagement and activity in the community. Reach is a measure of a community member’s sph…

And also an Orbit blog post on community tools –

Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: The best tool for your community, Orbit Blog, May 2020

In this article, we’ll discuss the key factors to consider when choosing a community platform, compare the three most popular options, and make recommendations based on a few different community scenarios. Our friends at Orbit (you know, makers of the Orbit Model of Developer Engagement, also in our forum) wrote up a giant community platforms blog post that’s a really good summary. We’re on Discord AND Discourse, and also use it for our private / internal company spaces, too, which isn’t r…

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Join us Thursday, October 1, 2020 4:00 PM

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Video

https://vimeo.com/fission/orbitmodel

Resources

• Slides OM Overview - Fission Meetup - Google Slides