Outreach¶
by Asheesh Loroia
How the Fedora design group does it¶
Provide contributor bounties
Tries to get in a new contributor every two weeks
- offers help for new people
- tries to get people of all levels
- if you get three contributors you get a free t-shirt
How the SF rails group grew¶
- Was at 2% woman
- Ran women only or woman + 1 events
- Huge turnouts!
Dos and Don’ts¶
Do: Decrease latency (and terror)
- respond to mailing lists!
- Set a deadline for responses
Do: Set goals
Do: Tell people what to do
- assign bugs
- Point them at existing issues
Do: Attach people to strong communities
- Don’t just run single events
- Keep things moving forward forever
Do: One-on-one interviews
Don’t: Talk about how much you hate doing X
Conclusions¶
- Demographics reinforce themselves
- Exploit the biases in your outreach
Next steps¶
- All it takes is effort
- Run a meetup outreach effort
- Run a starling bounty for your project
- Put your project on OpenHash
- Ask for help: http://asheesh.org/pycon11