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In previous posts, we’ve talked about the Salesforce.org Commons Community Programme. This initiative brings Salesforce professionals from across the globe together to collaborate and work on building and maintaining solutions that benefit the Nonprofit space. In 2023, the Commons Community Programme was very active, seeing two sprints take place in London along with numerous other sprints taking place internationally in the US and Australia.
The sprint calendar has kicked off for 2024 with the first sprint of the year taking place virtually on 6 and 7 February. Once again, Time Technology was pleased to be able to take part in this, with one of our Salesforce Consultants participating and leading a group in the event.
In this post, we’ll cover the sprint and share some of our highlights from this event.
What Happened at the Sprint?
The virtual sprint that took place in February covered quite a lot of ground. These were busy couple of days with a lot of good work being carried out, and some good progress being made.
Below are some of the key headlines from the event:
- Over 120 attendees participated across the two days.
- 15 countries were represented including the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, India, and the UK.
- 15 community-led projects were represented including:
- AI Prompts for Nonprofits
- Declarative Lookup Rollup Summaries (DLRS)
- Salesforce Indicators
- Sprinty’s Community Resources
- Summit Events App
- The Technical Collective
Across the two days, attendees participated in breakout groups on key items relating to their projects. Some of the work included building solutions, testing, and documentation. More details are available in the summary blog post available on the Commons Community webpage. You can read that summary post here.
AI Prompts for Nonprofits
As we noted at the beginning of this post, one of our Salesforce Consultants took part in this most recent sprint and was leading a group at the event. Mark Jones is the leader of the AI Prompts for Nonprofits group, and once again, the group was represented at the sprint.
This is the third sprint that the group has been included in, with the group first being founded in the sprint that took place in London in June 2023. This sprint saw the biggest stride in progress towards the aim of putting together a recipe book of prompts that Nonprofits will be able to use in Generative AI tools such as Gemini (formerly Google Bard) and ChatGPT.
In this sprint, the group was able to achieve the following:
- Formulated personas for prompt engineering.
- Created 23 different prompts and ran 71 tests across Bard, ChatGPT, and Copilot.
- Began working on the first draft of the AI Prompts Recipe Book.
- Began work on a first draft of a Nonprofits AI Prompt Engineering Best Practices Guide.
There is still work to be done to finalise the drafts of these documents and there are still some prompts to be tested. The group will be looking to start meeting up regularly to continue building on the momentum of what was achieved during this most recent sprint.
How Can You Get Involved in a Future Sprint?
There is room for more to come and join us at a future sprint. The Community Commons team is always on the lookout for volunteers to come and join one of the projects at a sprint. The next confirmed Sprint will take place on 29 February and 1 March in Sydney. There is also a sprint provisionally planned to take place after Salesforce World Tour in London with those provisional dates being 4 and 5 June. Other Sprints are in the works for the remainder of 2024.
If you would like more information about the Community Commons Programme and to see the Sprints currently being planned, then you can check out the programme’s group on Trailhead.
