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Shauna GM

You ever go to link a blog post and realize you never actually finished the post? That happened to me yesterday with my talk. So today I finished/published said post.

I present: Six Ways to Onboard New Contributors

relational-tech.com/blog/six-w

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"

Relational TechSix Ways to Onboard New ContributorsOnboarding new contributors is hard. Here are six different approaches to welcoming newcomers to your project.

@shauna a fantastic post.

One thought - a really useful thing that builds on your “review the onboarding docs” can also be as simple as use the app and contribute back the perspective of a new to the app user. In a lot of cases I imagine that would be exceptionally helpful for a project who likely mostly engage with active users and only occasionally with a new user beyond the “get setup” phase

Then can help with manuals, translations (including into industry specific jargon etc)

@Rycaut

Yes! New user feedback and new contributor feedback are two great tastes that pair well together. @baconandcoconut and I once organized an event called SpinachCon where open source projects signed up and we helped them run volunteers through new contributor onboarding, new user onboarding, or both. I wrote about it here: relational-tech.com/resources/

Relational TechBasic User and New Contributor Testing

@Rycaut

(Sorry to delete and re-draft on you, my website is new and built from scratch and I had to fix a bug in the opengraph formatting)

@shauna no worries! Great idea and concept and now one less bug.