Next steps for The Future of Jamstack

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Hello Jamstackers 👋 ,

The past 4 months have been eye-opening and energizing. I've loved meeting so many passionate community members and talking Jamstack almost every day. It's given me a huge amount of drive, excitement, and deeper understanding of what people love about Jamstack and its shortcomings.

The main goal of these conversations was to understand how to create a solid foundation that we can build a thriving community on top of. While everyone describes and thinks of Jamstack slightly differently, I'm seeing a core of themes and ideas that everyone is super aligned on. It feels like the right time to take all the momentum from these conversations and switch to building the future, here's what I think that looks like:

1. One more panel

Currently scheduled for April 8th (announcing soon). The goal here is to progress on these fundamental questions:

• At its core, what is this? An architecture approach, community, set of best practices?

• Who is it for? New comers to the web? Experienced web veterans? A term to help marketers understand and not be put off by 'static'?

• Why should it exist? What are the values of the community. Why should people join?

• How? What will we do as a community, what events will we do? How will it be governed?

• Where? What is the hub of the community. What do we need to get started?

  I'm planning to have the panel be fairly structured so we can hit on most of these topics.

2. Pitch for a new direction

I'm going to take all the interview and panel content, summarize it into themes and give my observations on what I've seen throughout these discussions. From here I'll pitch a new direction to the community (in this forum) based all the conversations I've had. I'll work with everyone to take feedback, refine, iterate, and get it to a point where we're all excited to be a part of what's next. We'll either create community-led governance for the new direction at this point, or have a plan of how we'll get there.

3. Launch & Rebuild the community

We'll launch the new direction with a launch event, website, community space, branding etc and invite the wider community to join. Now the real work begins. Creating educational material, running events, nurturing the community, writing, speaking etc. I'm fizzing for this.

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That's the rough plan. I'm hoping in May we're looking at step 3. I see my role as helping us transition into a direction that's led by the community. I'm very open and keen to hear ideas, feedback or thoughts on how to do that best. Do the steps make sense? How can we make the process more transparent and collaborative? How would you like to be involved?

If you've got thoughts, let's hear them!