[yt-dev] Ways to make the yt community more welcoming

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Nathan,

Thank you for sending this out.  I've looked it over, and I think we
might have bits and pieces of the higher levels, but it seems to me
that we're reliably somewhere between level 0 and 1.  We are missing a
few level 1 items, like how to contribute non-code things, up to date
step-by-step tutorials, and feature cut-off dates, but I think we have
the others.  And we're doing a bit better on some level 2
contributions, like self-contained projects, but not so much on things
like newbie todo lists, or available mentors.  (We have mentors, but I
think we might not be quite at the level that is meant in level 2.)
But I do think we're doign a good job of thanking people, providing
informal communications, and the code of conduct.  When we get down to
level 3 or 4, we start to get a bit more patchy -- I like to think we
have a good track record of admitting mistakes, but we could
definitely do better encouraging diverse voices and increasing plans
for succession.  We don't have a community manager.  Level 5 contains
things I want to see us do much better about -- providing child care,
30%+ new voices, and participation in community diversity programs
especially.

This is a really, really great blog post.  I'd like to see us start
trying to take action on some of these things.  What do you think our
strategy could be?

-Matt

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sarah Sharp, formerly the maintainer of the linux USB stack, recently
> stepped down from linux kernel development due to the toxic nature of that
> community.
>
> While we're miles ahead of the tenor on the linux kernel mailing list, there
> are always ways we can improve the community.
>
> Just today Sarah published this post on her blog, which has lots of concrete
> suggestions for making communities more welcoming.
>
> http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/06/what-makes-a-good-community/
>
> Are there things on these lists that the yt community could be doing that we
> aren't right now? There are lots of project ideas here, some much bigger
> than others, so I'm just throwing it out here in the hopes that will pique
> the interest of a few of you to implement some of these suggestions.
>
> -Nathan
>
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