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| title: "Community Development: What we do" |
| url: /about/ |
| tags: ["faq","navigation"] |
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| ## Community Development: What We Do |
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| The Community Development (ComDev) project |
| provides a wide array of information, [FAQs](/newbiefaq.html), and help to newcomers and existing committers, and maintains a number of [helpful tools](#getcode). |
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| ### Mentoring for Individuals and Help Getting Around |
| - [GSoC](/gsoc/) |
| - [Contributors Guide](/newcomers/) |
| - [Committers Guide](/committers) |
| - [Contributor Ladder](https://community.apache.org/contributor-ladder.html) of roles |
| - [Project Management Committees](https://community.apache.org/pmc/) |
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| ### Mentoring for Projects |
| - [Incubator Mentors](https://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html) - Many folks here are IPMC members or mentors, too |
| - Get community advice on dev@community |
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| ### Education + Outreach |
| - [Community Over Code](https://communityovercode.org/) *(formerly ApacheCon)* |
| - Partnered Industry Events (FOSDEM etc.) |
| - MeetUps, Apache BarCamps, etc. |
| - Event Representatives (booth coverage, etc.) |
| - [Sample Presentations](/speakers/slides.html) |
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| ### Diversity |
| - [Diversity Website](http://diversity.apache.org/) |
| - [Code of Conduct](https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html) |
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| ### Conference Travel Assistance |
| - [TAC - Travel Assistance Committee](https://www.apache.org/travel) |
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| ### Tools and Code we Maintain ### {#getcode} |
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| ComDev manages a number of helpful tools for finding your way around. |
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| - The [Apache Projects Directory](https://projects.apache.org/) lists all our software projects. [See the Project Directory **code**](https://projects.apache.org/about.html) and the JSON data feeds available. |
| - [Apache Committers Phone Book](https://home.apache.org/) lists all individual Apache committers. [See the Phonebook **code**](https://home.apache.org/phonebook-about.html). |
| - The [Project Reporting Tool](https://reporter.apache.org/) (requires login) helps Apache PMCs create quarterly board reports. [See the Reporter **code**](https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/projects.apache.org/). |
| - The [ComDev Wiki](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ComDev+Wiki) is also available for scratch or experimental work, although most permanent content should be here in the website. |
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| The ComDev PMC maintains these tools, so bring questions to our [dev@](https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@community.apache.org) list. |
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| ### Physical artifacts |
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| * Stickers: Request project stickers for your event, depending on geography |
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| ## About This Website |
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| The [Apache Community Development PMC](/) maintains this `community.apache.org` website and works through the |
| dev@community.apache.org [archived mailing list](/lists.html). |
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| See our [Newcomer FAQ](/newbiefaq.html#websitecms) for how to suggest changes to this website. |
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| The content is written in Markdown and published automatically via a Jenkins job. |
| Source code is hosted in a [Git repository](https://github.com/apache/comdev-site). |
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| See the [README.md](https://github.com/apache/comdev-site/blob/main/README.md) for more info. |
