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Yeah, I don't expect a really nuanced blog post from a marketing department... For your open source repos, how much effort is put into inviting contributions a

Yeah, I don't expect a really nuanced blog post from a marketing department... For your open source repos, how much effort is put into inviting contributions and making it easy to contribute? Growing an open source community is a lot of work, and is a skillset apart from (but not always exclusive of) software development and business development. Many projects don't try, or don't do a good job of it. Some projects (may e most famously SQLite) openly state that they have no interest in outside contributions. (Its a legitimate choice, but the consequences are obvious).

lmeyerov 3y ago
We experimented with this: Typically we get nice small contributions from devrel teams around connectors in their software, and junior data scientists newer to coding who we encourage to do examples instead of core code We revisit this every year or two, and are overdue, thanks!
- ensignavenger 3y ago
  I think a good example of this is the Django Software Foundation. They have a Django Fellow they employ who is responsible for helping guide the community and take care of the bug tracker and other tasks. They maintain a list of begginer friendly tasks. Release notes specifically call out first time contributors and credit them, no matter how small the first contribution may be. These callouts serve as both a thank you/welcome, and a message to the community reminding them that contributions are welcome. Every project is unique,.sounds like you guys are making a serious effort- keep up the good work!