As our next chapter begins, let’s share the pen
To our Flyers,
PatternFly is 6 years young. This Medium publication is even younger.
Last December, we took a leap of faith from WordPress to Medium and launched our PatternFly publication. Our goal was to curate meaningful content and provide a space where our community could learn and grow together.
Over the past six months, we’ve grown PatternFly’s content––and we have our community to thank. With your support, we’ve entered the conversation about UX and open source design. We’ve triumphed major releases, celebrated Flyer success stories, and shared best practices across the industry.
And all of these thought-leading stories were written for you, about you, and by you.
You, our multivariate band of Flyers. You: designers, developers, researchers, writers, passionate creators, UX hobbyists, relentless problem-solvers, fearless forward-thinkers. You are the faces who bring the PatternFly community to life.
That’s why we need your help.
This summer, we’re launching a new social media strategy to shape our online presence around what matters: you. Our Medium readership has grown, and with our follower list 108-strong, we’re asking you to help us define our next steps.
This year, we introduced this publication and increased our Twitter activity. Now we’re looking to advance these channels by championing the expertise, knowledge, and people that make our community so unique.
We’re open source and open book.
No crafty marketing here. No guesswork. We want our social platforms to celebrate and reflect your contributions because without you, there is no PatternFly. We can’t start this journey without you.
Speak out, speak proud.
We want to learn more about our Medium and Twitter communities. Who are you? How do you use PatternFly? What kind of online content inspires you?
Be heard.
We invite you to voice your opinions by submitting two Google forms:
- Share your thoughts on our PatternFly Medium publication.
- Share your thoughts on our PatternFly Twitter channel.
Our story is a mosaic of yours.
Community is PatternFly’s greatest strength. You make us who we are and infuse meaning into what we do.
In the coming weeks, we’ll use your responses to contour our online content to our community. Your wants, hopes, voices, and visions — we’ll take your feedback and run with it.
Thank you for contributing, collaborating, reading, and sharing. By engaging with one another, you’ve built the PatternFly community into what it is today.
We’re proud to know you. We’re excited to learn more about you. And we can’t wait to continue our content journey with you, one story at a time.
Let’s share the pen.
Looking forward,
Alana
