Distribute Aid Open Source Contributor Program

Goals

Contributor Pathways

• Have a more well-rounded experience
• Focussed areas of our tech stacks
• Non-code maintainership
• Having the flexibility to design more pathways as their needs arise
• Essentially a DAG (Directed Acyclical Graph)
• Choose-your-own-adventure contributorship

Onboarding

• NB: Capacity?
• Cohorts?
• First few iterations require a higher-touch approach

Safety

• Code of Conduct
• Contributing Guidelines

Incentives

• Letter of Reccommendation
• LinkedIn Post
• Virtual Badges
  • Open Source these?
• Public Speaking Support
• Team listing:
  • Completed Contributor pathway
  • Has contributed to DA

Pacing

• 3-month program
• Progress on a weekly basis
• Flexibility: If they do it faster or slower, that's okay too!
• Cohorts inventivise collaboration

Support

• Cross-competency collaboration
• Moderation
• Bring in technical mentorship
  • Pairing
  • Weekly Office Hours
• Participate in events
  • Streams
  • Tech talks for the cohort
  • Q&A
• Financial Support
  • Sponsorship for DA
    • 1-pagers
    • Unrestricted funding: Sponsor one person going through the cohort, ship aid, etc.
  • Working with Learn to Code Bootcamps
    • Fund a summer internship
  • Equity of Access

Open questions

• What do milestones look like?
  • This could vary between different pathways