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@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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