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	<h1 id="community-building-at-the-asf">Community Building at the ASF <a class="headerlink" title="Permalink" href="#community-building-at-the-asf">&para;</a></h1>
<p>This directory will contain practical advice to ASF projects about how
to encourage and foster the growth of their project communities. This
will include a variety of topics:</p>
<h2 id="what">What <a class="headerlink" title="Permalink" href="#what">&para;</a></h2>
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<li>What is an Apache community</li>
<li>Who are the persona that comprise an Apache community</li>
<li>How does an Apache community differ from other open source
communities? How is it the same?</li>
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<h2 id="why">Why <a class="headerlink" title="Permalink" href="#why">&para;</a></h2>
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<li>Why community matters to a project. (Discussion of &ldquo;Community Over
Code&rdquo;)</li>
<li>Why various groups (individuals, companies, other projects) should be
involved in the project community. (Sustainability, influence, trust)</li>
<li>In particular, how and why companies should get engaged in projects
that they rely on</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="how">How <a class="headerlink" title="Permalink" href="#how">&para;</a></h2>
<p>The bulk of the content will focus on the <em>HOW</em>. Practical advice to
grow and retain the various parts of a project community. This includes,
but is not limited to:</p>
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<li>Welcoming
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<li>Creating a welcoming environment for beginners</li>
<li>Actively welcoming new contributors</li>
<li>Welcoming, and onboarding, new Committers, PMC members</li>
</ul>
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<li>Transparency
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<li>Bringing discussion back to the public list</li>
<li>Over-communicating, rather than assuming everyone Just Knows</li>
<li>Appropriate use of synchronous communication (ie, Slack, Discord,
etc.)</li>
</ul>
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<li>Articulating the project mission
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<li>What&rsquo;s in scope? What is out of scope?</li>
<li>What does it do? Who is the target audience?</li>
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<li>Events
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<li>Project summits</li>
<li>Small/Local meetups</li>
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<li>Good First Tickets</li>
<li>Responsiveness (to tickets, questions, PRs)</li>
<li>Delegation (Actively delegating to beginners, so that they can build
their participation muscles and confidence.)</li>
<li>Mentoring and micro-mentoring</li>
<li>Diversity (along multiple axes)</li>
<li>Vendor neutrality</li>
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<h2 id="stories">Stories <a class="headerlink" title="Permalink" href="#stories">&para;</a></h2>
<p>Stories and examples from projects that do this well.</p>


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