Contributor Catalyst: New Contributor Perspectives From an HBCU Mento...
summary
A pilot eight-week hybrid cohort (one week remote, four weeks in-person, three weeks remote) trains HBCU students on git, GitHub workflows, community research and contributor norms, funds travel/housing and a conference trip, and places alumni as peer mentors and paid contributors. One participant adds a gitattributes file to p5.js, fixed five-year-old issue that broke npm tests on Windows in two weeks and earns an invite to p5 2.0; initial NSF $1M funding is now terminated.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:25Program structure
- 11:16Silus’s journey
- 15:54Attracting new contributors
- 20:27Impact on p5.js
- 24:41Expansion challenges
- 26:28Call to action
- 28:39Code of conduct
- 31:32Company support
- 35:44Q&A
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