[Pattern Draft] Recruiting and nurturing contributors for InnerSource projects

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#542 opened on May 25, 2023 11 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Documentation
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: markdown
Domain: content, documentation

Research direction

Start by reading meta/pattern-template.md to understand the required pattern structure, then arrange an interview with MaineC about recruiting contributors and helping them become Trusted Committers. Done means turning the interview content into a draft pattern that follows the repository's full pattern syntax.

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Description

:book: Type - Content Work 1-initial

In conversations in Slack @MaineC has shared many great tips about how to keep the number of contributors to a project healthy. Her tips are focused on

increasing the number of contributors
helping contributors to level up into the role of Trusted Committer

We would like to interview her about these topics, and see how we could turn this content into a pattern.

See our full pattern syntax to understand the type of information we would like to extract by doing an interview.

Dominant language: HTML
Stars: 853
Forks: 206
Avg merge: 1d 23h
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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