Creating a new community, in this case one focused on IT, is really nothing more than bringing people together around an idea so they can help one another, make new friends, find inspiration, and receive support. For the author of these lines, spending time with people from different communities has meant a great deal. The idea of creating a new community is simply a small step toward contributing something of my own and helping people who are entering the IT world — a vast space that can feel unfamiliar when we do not yet know our way around.
It is like arriving at an event where you do not know anyone. It means a lot when someone approaches you and starts a conversation. The awkwardness disappears, and so does that feeling that everyone is watching you while you stand there, uncomfortable and a little lost.
IT Komuna is a place dedicated to connecting different communities and highlighting valuable online content that can help you navigate the jungle of information. We would also like to invite other communities, organizations, businesses, and individuals who want to share a job opening, an event they are organizing, or anything else related to IT. We will gladly share it on our website and social media channels.
I have always wanted to capture something of the vibe that the hippie communes once represented. That particular world may no longer exist, but its spirit still echoes from a time when people seemed closer to one another. This new community will make a genuine effort to bring people together in a similar way — to create something that goes beyond personal interests.
There should be an ideal that is not simply about making money, but also about helping those who need support. Not everything should be driven by self-interest. There should be a place where we can actually become friends.
So many things today are designed as leads for some business idea in the background, ultimately trying to sell something. We want to help with that side of things too. You will be able to share something you want others to see and, perhaps, eventually buy. But we do not want to turn this community into just another advertising platform.
In a way, the Woodstock festival is one of the inspirations behind the idea of building an IT community. It represents a particular atmosphere — a community built on love above all, where people share from the heart and where everything is not simply another lead magnet designed to generate sales. 🙂
We invite everyone to join us in our mission to make the IT world — and the world in general — a little more beautiful. Instead of wearing masks, let us share genuine smiles. And if good actions and ideas eventually help someone achieve business success, that is wonderful. But it should not be our primary motivation, or at least it should not overshadow everything else.
Good things have a way of coming back to us. Your contribution to others can bring positive things into your own life as well.
We will be the first to start offering many free activities to help anyone whose work or interests involve IT, whatever they may do and however they use information technology and the internet.
We want to help you learn how to establish your presence online, how to promote yourself, and how to develop many of the skills needed to navigate a technological wave that has completely transformed the world over the past thirty years. Our role is to show how we can contribute to making that transformation a positive one.
Whether you sell handmade products online, enjoy cooking and want people to read your recipes, work in marketing, design, web design, programming, photography, writing, or practically any other field, your main channel of communication with an audience or clients is likely to be the internet — through websites, mobile applications, email, and many other tools for communication and teamwork.
In fact, if you are not present on the global network, you may be making things more difficult for yourself, your clients, your collaborators, and even your friends. Sometimes I find it difficult to reach people who are not on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or similar platforms.
Our small mission is to focus on the brighter side of the enormous wave of technological progress and innovation — a wave that has also brought certain negative consequences and side effects.
Besides the beautiful word “commune,” another reason I chose this title was the idea that, just as municipal services help communities function, there could also be “IT community workers” who look after the needs of people working online and those doing the kinds of jobs that define our time.
These professions are still not fully accepted in our society. People sometimes dismiss them as not being real jobs, and online workers are often accused of selling smoke and mirrors — especially marketers, whose work cannot always be measured with complete precision.
That is why our job is to make our work genuinely useful to others, to do it as well as we possibly can, and to help people find their way in this reality.
From the IT Komuna archive: Originally published in 2022, this article reflects the founding idea behind our community. It has been preserved as part of IT Komuna's history.