Welcoming Communities
summary
Hoodie grows contributors by concrete changes: codebase splits into 16 modules so newcomers can fix one package without understanding everything; contrib tooling requires only Node and git, removing build/runtime hurdles; outreach uses First-Timers-Only, CodeTriage (~10k volunteers) and Twitter lists (first-pr PR account ~5k followers); a small dashboard called hoodie camp surfaces prewritten issues via the GitHub API; releases are automated from commit prefixes; funding and transparency use Open Collective.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:56The Catch
- 4:11Promotion
- 7:21Word of Mouth
- 7:53Hosting Events
- 9:30Outreach
- 14:12Optimize
- 16:57Hoodie Camp
- 19:43Retention
- 20:48Communication
- 21:41Committers
- 22:31Maintainer
- 22:53Transparency
- 23:23Appreciation
- 24:07Automation
- 24:45Healthy Open Source
- 25:10Community Manager
- 25:51Money and Open Source
- 28:11Money in Open Source
- 28:52Hoodie Blog
- 29:06Conclusion
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