
You ever go to link a blog post and realize you never actually finished the post? That happened to me yesterday with my #FOSSBackstage talk. So today I finished/published said post.
I present: Six Ways to Onboard New Contributors
https://relational-tech.com/blog/six-ways-to-onboard.html
It rounds up my best suggestions for welcoming newcomers:
- context-building tasks
- FRAME tasks
- tasks that utilize newcomer ignorance
- tasks that utilize newcomer expertise
- pairing
and most important: letting new contributors "just be"
