bdelacretaz commented on code in PR #211: URL: https://github.com/apache/comdev-site/pull/211#discussion_r2392646404
########## source/contributors/_index.md: ########## @@ -50,11 +50,30 @@ reasonable first step towards contributing. Keep notes of that first user experience, as that is valuable information for the project, and might be a good place to start your contributions. -### The Code +### What can I contribute? -Most (not all) Apache projects have their code on -[GitHub](https://github.com/apache). Search for the project name in the -**apache** GitHub organization. +Most people's first thought when contributing to open source projects is +code. And, indeed, that's where most people get involved. Most (not all) +Apache projects have their code on [GitHub](https://github.com/apache). +Search for the project name in the **apache** GitHub organization. + +There are, however, many other areas where you can contribute to a +project. These include, but are not limited to: + +* Documentation +* Marketing and social media promotion +* Event planning +* Technical support on mailing lists and other forums +* Vendor/Sponsor relations +* Project management (organizing the next sprint or feature set, keeping + track of who is working on what, updating the roadmap) +* Community management + +Projects should identify, recruit for, and celebrate contributions in +all of these areas, and reward non-code contributors with the same +rights and privileges that they do for code contributors. + +**Being a committer is *not* just for code contributors!** Review Comment: We sometimes say that it's more about "being committed to the project" than "committing code", might be good to add this here? -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
