Building a community around your project

Growing a social network around a software project brings developers up to speed faster. New hires and teams that are added to a core team will find all the information they need in a central social network community, including blogs, forums, wikis, file repositories, and bookmarks.

Once the project community is created, all project members are added to it and as new developers join the Jazz project, they automatically become members of the project community.

Note: To automatically add a new project member to an associated community, the administrator needs permissions to add new members to the community on the social network server.

Viewing a linked social network community

Click the Community icon in the Social Network viewlet to open the social network community associated with the current Jazz project. From this icon’s dropdown menu, you can access the community feed to stay up to date on community activities; for example, you can subscribe to community updates by subscribing to the feed in the Feed viewlet.

To search the community for people and knowledge, select Search Project Community from the dropdown menu.

Associating a Jazz project to a social community on Lotus Connections

Associating a Jazz project with a Lotus Connections community gives project members direct access to community features such as wikis, blogs, and forums, from the Social Network viewlet on the Jazz project Dashboard.

  1. In Admin mode, open the Project Area Management page, and select the project to configure. - or -
    In the Project Area page, click the Manage Project Areas link, and then select the project to configure.
  2. Open the Social Network tab.
  3. To associate your project with an existing community:
    1. Click the Select Community button to open the Select Community dialog.
    2. Enter a search filter to load the list, or click the Show All link to view all communities.
    3. Select a community from the list of matching items and click OK, and then Save.
  4. To associate your project with a new community:
    1. Click the Create Community button to open the Create Community dialog.
    2. Enter a Name for the community, define the Access Level, and optionally add a Description for the community and Tags to make the community easy to find.
    3. Click Create, and then Save.