Community Perspective Discussion
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Revision as of 19:46, 2 February 2016
This page frames the discussion for how members of various FOSS/HFOSS communities view new contributors as well as how the growth of a newbie into a full contributor is accomplished.
Attracting New Contributors
- How important is it to attract new contributors?
- What percentage of effort is spent on attracting newbies?
- What is the impact on project future?
- How do projects attract new contributors?
- What is it about a project that draws new users? Domain? Technology? Community?
- What techniques have been successful for drawing new contributors?
- What challenges do you face in attracting new contributors?
- How do projects retain contributors?
- What techniques have been successful for retaining contributors?
- How do you guide contributors towards increasing value to the project?
- How successful have you been with this?
- What are the onramps for your project?
- Have you developed learning activities or resources to help in on-ramp?
- This might be as simple as a brief tour of the project site pointing out features for potential contributors
- Have you developed learning activities or resources to help in on-ramp?
- What skills/knowledge should a potential contributor have?
- What is the minimum set of knowledge/skills contributors need to get started?
- What more advanced knowledge is valuable?
- How do you convey the need for more advanced knowledge? How do you "grow" newbies?
- What are the biggest learning curve issues for newbies?
- Where do you suggest newbies start?
- What role do you hope that new contributors play in your project?
- What kinds of contributions work best for new contributors?
- What kinds of contributions are most likely to be accepted by the project?
- Do you use different approaches/techniques for newbies versus people that appear to have some background?
- What advice would you give instructors on how to approach and work with a project?
- What should instructors do to ensure interactions with students is a plus?
- What is the right way to approach a project in order to ensure successful interactions?
- What should instructors do to ensure successful interactions over time?
- How can instructors give back to the community?
- How can foss2serve bridge the gap between education and HFOSS projects?
- How can we make student participation work better for all concerned?
