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This article is about a book, The Art of Community, I translated its original About on its website for sharing information with Chinese friends, and also I am happy to serve a downloaded version of this book, enjoy it.

这篇Blog关于一本书 ——《社区艺术》。我翻译了此书官方网站上面的介绍，推荐这本书，并和更多的朋友分享。这里我非常高兴可以提供一个该书的下载版本。

Every software project, online site, or company has to manage the community of interested people surrounding it. The community is the source of new ideas, a reliable support network, and the best marketing tool. When money is tight, making the best use of the community is even more critical.

每个软件项目、在线网站或者公司，都不得不管理那些对他们的项目或者网站感兴趣的粉丝们所组成的社区，因为社区往往是新点子的摇篮，也是值得信赖的支持者的网络，同时也是很好的市场工具。当资金紧缺的时候，有效的利用社区显得尤为重要。

Author Jono Bacon has been building and managing communities for a decade, particularly in areas of open source software such as KDE and Ubuntu. He currently is Community Manager for Ubuntu, probably the largest community in the open-source software area. His experience and his relationships with other communities and leaders provide a rich and deep well of expertise for this book.

作者Jono Bacon有长达十年的社区构建和管理经验，KDE和Ubuntu这类开源软件社区就是他的”代表作“。Jono Bacon目前是Ubuntu社区的社区经理人，而Ubuntu社区大概称得上是最大的开源软件社区。他丰富的经验和与其他社区及其社区发起人良好的关系，使得本书具备完整而专业的双重特征。

In The Art of Community you’ll experience the broad range of talents required to recruit members, motivate them, manage them, and make them happy to be part of your community. Bacon takes you through the different stages of community and covers the information you’ll need, ranging from software tools to conflict resolution skills. Topics include:

在《社区艺术》一书中，你将会看各种各样的人才，这些人才招募社区成员，激励他们，管理他们，并且使这些成员乐于成为社区的的一部分。Bacon会带着你一起了解社区的各个层面的问题，并且提供帮助你解决这些问题的方法，这些方法涵盖了从软件工具到在冲突解决方案的技能。其中包含一下的主题：

* Sustainable processes for management – how to create day to day processes that are simple, effective and always representative of your community and its members.

＊ 持续改善的管理流畅——即如何创建简单而高效日常管理流程，并且这些流程能一直代表着你的社区和社区成员。

* Tools and infrastructure – give your community simple and friction-free tools that they need to do their work, complete with effective communication channels.

工具和社区的体系——即在社区里面提供简单易用的工具，使得社区成员可以利用这些工具，有效的交流并且完成他们想做的事情。

* Building buzz – think outside the box and excite and enthuse potential community members to join your crusade, build capacity and keep the train running.

建立参与和反馈机制——即跳出限制去思考，使得具备潜力的社区成员，兴奋并热衷于参与社区的革新，给他们发挥的空间，让社区持续发展。

* Measuring aspects of community success – understand, assess and measure your community, discover what can be measured and how to react to the results.

评定社区的各个方面——即理解，评估和量度你的社区，去发现什么是可以量度的和如何影响社区的评估结果。

* Conflict management – manage strong personalities that clash, and untangle contentious situations in the open and transparent manner that your community expects.

冲突管理——以透明和开放的方式，应对诽谤和出现在社区中的冲突、争辩。

* Handling live events – organize and schedule productive, fun and engaging live events that get things done and re-affirm social bonds between your community members.

发起生动的实时事件——组织和计划有价值、有趣并且吸引人的实时事件，这些事件可以带动并且加固社区成员件的关系。

* Scaling the community – as your community grows, things change and adjust to the size, scale and throughput of your membership: handle these changes with as little disruption as possible.

掌控社区的规模——因为你的社区会成长，内容会变，规模也在变化，所以你需要掌控社区的规模和各种关系：尽可能少毁坏原有关系的情况下，来处理这种变化。

The Art Of Community underlines and illustrates this large body of knowledge with a compendium of stories, anecdotes and tales that bring the concepts to life. Bacon’s amusing and witty writing style makes the Art Of Community a fun read that is sure to help you build strong, effective and engaging communities.

《社区艺术》中应用了故事，案例和一些桥段将一个很大范畴内的知识体系和相关概念渗透到实际生活中，Bacon机智幽默的写作风格使得《社区艺术》这本书变得异常有趣，因而，毫无疑问，这本书将会帮助你打造一个强大，高效并且有趣的社区。

Availability
The Art Of Community will be published in mid-2009 by O’Reilly and available from all good bookshops. The book will also be freely available online to enjoy, share and modify under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial license.
Keep Up To Date

《社区艺术》将会由O’Reilly出版社在2009年中期发行(显然已经发行了)，并且在各大书店应该都有销售，本书亦会免费在网络上面提供电子版供大家阅读。所有的共享和修改需要遵守“知识共享署名-非商业性使用-许可协议”

Keep up to date with the latest progress on the Art Of Community by regularly checking www.artofcommunityonline.org.

更多详情清关注该书的官方网站：www.artofcommunityonline.org