Open Community Leadership
Helping communities create future contributors and leaders
Open Community Leadership (OCL) is an open-source project that turns community knowledge into practical frameworks, tools, and learning resources. Through POPCOM, it helps communities understand how people join, contribute, take responsibility, build relationships, and grow into future leaders.
Practical frameworks and tools for communities to grow people, share responsibility, and create future leaders.
OCL is designed for community organisers, maintainers, volunteer leaders, mentors and anyone working to build communities that can continue beyond the people leading them today.
What OCL gives you
A framework
POPCOM gives you a shared language for community health.
A module path
Each module turns one part of community leadership into practice.
A resource library
Canvases, checklists, examples, badges, and guides you can reuse.
A way to pass it on
Take what helps, change what does not fit, and pass on what you learn.
POPCOM is the lens running through every OCL module.
It helps community leaders see where people enter, where they get stuck, and where future leaders begin to grow.
| P | Participation | How people join |
| O | Ownership | How people gain responsibility |
| P | Purpose | Why people stay |
| C | Connection | How relationships form |
| O | Opportunity | How contributors grow |
| M | Mentorship | How communities reproduce themselves |
The Experience Is the Community
The first OCL module helps you map how people actually move through your community, from arrival to return. Use it alone, in a workshop, or as a mentor guiding others.
Go to module oneAvailable now
Coming next
- Checklists
- More modules…