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Community Welcomingness

Why It Matters

It is important to ensure that your community is welcoming to newcomers as well as long-time community members. Creating a welcoming environment can help in empowering community members to commit time and effort to your project.

User Stories

  • As a newcomer, I am curious as to whether I will be welcome in a new community or not.
  • As a member from an organization interested in an open source project, I would like to know if my employees will be able to contribute to the project on behalf of the organization.
  • As a maintainer, I would like to know how many potential new contributors I am losing because my project is not as welcoming as it could be.
  • As an organization who runs open source projects, I want to know if my project is open to including new contributors for the sustainability of my project.

Metrics in the Metrics Model

Activity

Community Culture

Licensing

Stability

Code

Contributors

  • Matt Germonprez
  • Sean Goggins
  • Elizabeth Barron
  • Yehui Wang

To edit or suggest changes to this document, please submit a PR here: https://github.com/chaoss/wg-metrics-models/blob/main/metrics-model-libs/community-welcomingness/definition/community-welcomingness.md

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