# One Pager for mygabar.org on Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-pager-for-mygabar-org-on-discourse/39535>\
**Category:** Praise\
**Created:** [2016年二月13日 17:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-pager-for-mygabar-org-on-discourse/39535 "2016-02-13T17:14:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![scombs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/scombs/32/48616_2.png) [@scombs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scombs)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月13日 17:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-pager-for-mygabar-org-on-discourse/39535/1 "2016-02-13T17:14:35Z")

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I work with various non-profit organizations who have internal email, mailing lists, and social media, but no communities. Discourse is an incredible tool for building a community. Thank you.

Many solutions will let you build a community on their platform (Facebook, LinkedIn, [Meetup.com](http://Meetup.com), etc.)–good for their platform. I like Discourse because organizations can build their own communities.

I created a [one-pager](https://community.mygabar.org/t/my-ga-bar-one-pager/348) to use for presentations. It includes some quotes that summarizes things nicely. (I like this [presentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/frostbite-heart-discourse/39411/) too.)

## Why Use Discourse?

## Intention to Action

> “ **If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.** ” -Gerry Lopez (from AMC Theaters, not [Mr. Pipeline](https://vimeo.com/47481484))

## Collaboration

> “ **…standardizing and automating manual processes, improving workflows, improving knowledge-sharing and collaboration, and gaining visibility into the information we have, so that we can leverage the data to make stronger business decisions.** ” -Mary O’Carroll, Head of Legal Operations, Technology and Strategy, Google, Inc. ([article](http://www.acc.com/accdocket/onlineexclusives/doing-it-better-legal-operations.cfm))

## Principles

> “ **It’s super easy to build a small thing for a few people, anybody can do that, for 10,000 people say; it’s much harder to build networks and platforms and systems that work for 10 million people** ,” said Chris Fabian, who co-leads the innovation unit at the United Nations Children’s Fund and spoke to USA TODAY on the sidelines of the summit. ([Article](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/11/04/europe-refugee-migrant-crisis-technology-unicef-dublin-web-summit/75141642/))

> - Design with the user

- Understand the existing ecosystem
- Design for scale
- Build for sustainability
- Be data driven
- Use open standards, open data, open source and open innovation
- Reuse and improve
- Do no harm
- Be collaborative

Or you can play the Tron intro 🙂

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/2/7/427afe7a1b18e6b5a9b3a3506280b46ba451649e.jpeg "Tron Legacy - Introduction: part 1 (Daft Punk - The Grid) (VOSTFR)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dphkp4J3L1U&t=25s)