Build your Contributor Pipeline
summary
CNCF SIG Contributor Strategy lays out concrete, reusable assets: a cloneable contributor templates repo (pick files or clone whole), a published contributor ladder with role criteria, and a playbook plus growth framework with real case studies. Practical tactics include labeling issues as good first issue and help wanted, keeping at least one evergreen three‑year good‑first‑issue, publishing a step‑by‑step onboarding tutorial (Porter example), and running regular office hours and meetings (1st/3rd Thu 10:30 PT; 2nd/4th Tue 14:00).
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:20Josh Berkus
- 0:47What are you trying to achieve
- 1:35Where do contributors come from
- 1:51Individual users
- 2:30Corporate users
- 3:02Learners
- 3:33Users
- 5:19enablers
- 6:59recognition
- 7:32things to avoid
- 8:28communication
- 9:38asynchronous content
- 10:38dont do everything at once
- 11:53let people know you want new contributors
- 13:03readme
- 13:31hey we want you
- 14:11double duty
- 15:57good first issues
- 16:36example
- 16:59new contributor perspective
- 19:13different ways to do this
- 20:33Joshs contributing tutorial
- 22:35The contributor ladder
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