The other day I was poking around the Keen Community Slack, and got really excited when I saw this:

For some reason, it appears, people have been tricked into thinking we’re cool enough that they should idle in our community Slack. THIS IS SUPER DUPER CRAZY AWESOME.

Right now, however, the community in that chat kinda looks like this:

My hope is that we can get it to look more like this:

In order to accomplish that, we are going to host Keen Community Discussions! These will be modeled after some stuff we’ve seen in the Ghost dev community — it’s essentially an open discussion time for the community to come around, talk about what they’re building, ask questions about data, analytics and APIs, and generally get to know each other.

This Friday is our first one. Assuming people are interested, we will be hosting these every Friday at 11:00 AM PT.

BONUS: Real Life Keenies

I think I’m pretty cool, and I’m sure all of you are excited to chat with me, but I’m also gonna have some other real life Keen employees available for you to gab with. I’ll be choosing a few specific Keenies every week to join us — if you’ve got any specific topic you want to discuss, let me know and I’ll make sure the right person is there.

I’m really excited about this. I spend a lot of time with my head down trying to build cool things, and it’s easy to lose touch with the community. This is a reminder and stellar opportunity each week to really dig in and meet the people who are building amazing things.

To join us, just hop into our community Slack channel. See you on Friday!