Refresh and revitalize the contributor and leadership pipelines

[gusaus]

Explore ways on how to support, mentor, and grow our contributors

Ideas/action items

• Improve the badge system so it's clear and consistent across all teams
• Project based training and mentoring
• Include financial incentives and career opportunities for contributors
• Create project-wide onboarding docs so that all Teams have capacity to onboard and train new contributors.
• Create standardized list of Team roles, skills, and commitments
• Provide clear/easy entry points for contributing to multiple Teams
• Work with groups and organizations outside of the WordPress ecosystem to create a pipeline of new contributors

Related programs and projects

• Contributor Mentorship Program
• Refine and extend Five for the Future #16
• Extend the do_action hackathon format #21
• Leverage and contribute to the Open Website Alliance #19

Reference/resources

• Refreshing the contributor pipeline (Community Summit discussion)
• Revitalizing contributor teams’ leadership pipeline (Community Summit discussion)
• Invisible and under-appreciated: bolstering “behind the scenes” contributions (Community Summit discussion)
• Iterating on the Team Rep role (Community Summit discussion)

[gusaus]

@harishankerr As mentioned in the last Contributor Working Group’s Mentorship Chat (and related discussions), I think Sustainability Team could be a test case #2 and a contributor.

Similarly one of the primary ways we're extending do_action #21 is to include opportunities for new contributors and maintainers to receive hands-on training during the entire web development process and thereafter.

Assuming we can put together a team of available/sponsored contributors to forward the following, we'll be able to incentivize a larger/diverse pool of mentors needed to revitalize the pipelines and grow the community.

• Explore and enable options for funding community projects, teams, working groups, and contributors #15
• Refine and extend Five for the Future #16

What do you think?