| # Community Building at the ASF |
| |
| 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: |
| |
| ## What |
| |
| * What is an Apache community |
| * Who are the persona that comprise an Apache community |
| * How does an Apache community differ from other open source |
| communities? How is it the same? |
| |
| ## Why |
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| * Why community matters to a project. (Discussion of "Community Over |
| Code") |
| * Why various groups (individuals, companies, other projects) should be |
| involved in the project community. (Sustainability, influence, trust) |
| * In particular, how and why companies should get engaged in projects |
| that they rely on |
| |
| ## How |
| |
| The bulk of the content will focus on the *HOW*. Practical advice to |
| grow and retain the various parts of a project community. This includes, |
| but is not limited to: |
| |
| * Welcoming |
| * Creating a welcoming environment for beginners |
| * Actively welcoming new contributors |
| * Welcoming, and onboarding, new Committers, PMC members |
| * Transparency |
| * Bringing discussion back to the public list |
| * Over-communicating, rather than assuming everyone Just Knows |
| * Appropriate use of synchronous communication (ie, Slack, Discord, |
| etc.) |
| * Articulating the project mission |
| * What's in scope? What is out of scope? |
| * What does it do? Who is the target audience? |
| * Events |
| * Foundation-wide events |
| * Project summits |
| * Small/Local meetups |
| * Good First Tickets |
| * Responsiveness (to tickets, questions, PRs) |
| * Delegation (Actively delegating to beginners, so that they can build |
| their participation muscles and confidence.) |
| * Mentoring and micro-mentoring |
| * Diversity (along multiple axes) |
| * Vendor neutrality |
| |
| ## Stories |
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| Stories and examples from projects that do this well. |
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