Contribute/Pathways/Guides

TL;DR

Guide on helping brand new contributors find first tasks and match their skills/interests to projects/teams.

Goal: Pathways goal #3 - Support brand new contributors and the projects they join by building a community of mentors and a system to support them.

Stakeholders/dependencies: Contribution area experts, Bedrock team - and decisions about Get Involved page.

Roadmap

• Thursday, August 21, 2014
  • This wiki page.
  • Outline of what we want in the wiki.
  • Definition of what it means to be a helper/guide.
• End Q3
  • Reach out to all contribution areas
  • Fully document one contribution area
• End Q4
  • Program description is complete
  • All contribution areas are documented
  • 1-2 first contributions per "bucket" are well documented
  • How to add more areas and tasks
• End of 2014
  • Documentation for the guides for 2-3 starter tasks for each of the eight areas of Get Involved.