Contributor Growth Working Group

Want to grow your contributor base sustainably? We can assist you with best practices, resources, and guidance on how!

The Contributor Growth Working Group is a team within CNCF that focuses on helping CNCF projects grow their contributor base sustainably.

We aim to provide best practices and resources for managing and interacting with contributors to CNCF projects.

Goals

Provide best practices and resources for managing and interacting with contributors to CNCF projects.
Provide guidance on a sustainable contributor lifecycle for CNCF Projects to:
- Develop a pipeline that brings in new contributors.
- Define a contribution ladder with activities that promote contributors to higher levels of responsibility.
- Support their maintainers with advice and resources that improve sustainability and plan for transitions from the project.

Here are some benefits that the Contributor Growth working group can provide to communities:

Best practices and resources for managing and interacting with contributors to CNCF projects
Guidance and support for a sustainable contributor lifecycle for CNCF projects
Templates for common documents like a contributing guide, reviewing guide, TOC due diligence guidelines, and more
Case studies and talks for insights and inspiration
Non-code areas such as project management, work prioritization and similar, which may not be the maintainers’ primary skillset

You may find some tips in our Community Guide and Available Templates.

We are happy to see that you are interested in helping with this working group. We would love to:

get your feedback about out guides and templates.
see your introduction email on our mailing list / message on our Slack channel.
see you attend our meetings where you can contribute ideas and take responsibilities.

View our calendar to see when we meet next.

Keep up-to-date on mentoring programs we manage.

Reach out for any immediate matters at #tag-contributor-strategy on CNCF Slack

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