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Brian J. Cardiff

I don't think a single person could handle all the community channels and communications.

There are some of us (in the whole community) that are more skilled and eager to share, curate and prepare content.
For a management perspective he have some hooks into Slack to avoid constant querying all the channels. But that is the smallest part.

First we have a website, some docs people and read, then we added the mailing list as a way to users reach us and start conversating (besides from github). But then IRC emerged and @jhass created a service to cross post to Gitter. A Slack was also created, but IRC+Gitter worked better for here.

Some people like to spend and collaborate there a lot in the chat <3
I think that constant conversation & sharing in that channel is important to a community. Yet, is not always easy. Serdar and Matias do great job in the community nowadays #Kudos.

An online playground and a share code service (even a basic one) is agreat resource.

As with any open source project there is a challenge (and joy) in trusting people with who you will be able to delegate and even share resposibilities.

Tips: Start little by little. Do something is useful for you. Be patient.

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Niko 👩🏾‍💻

Thanks that's great advice!

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Serdar Dogruyol

Thank you Brian :) I'm just trying my best to share how awesome Crystal is with everyone!