Breakout: how to attract new contributors?

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 11:24:00 AM UTC Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 17 October 2016, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >     <bshah> we need more contributors, junior jobs are best way to get
> >
> > started <Sho_> the most critical thing we can do for developer recruitment
> > <Sho_> is change the way we publish/blog
> > <Sho_> our blogs are mostly work notes aimed at users, we need to
> > write more blog posts that engineers like to read
> > <Sho_> mgraesslin: the interesting thing is that among the best and
> > brightest fresh young open source contributors, we have quite a few
> > users - e.g. in the Rust community quite a few use Plasma, because C++
> > is the next best thing - but we don't publish anything they like to
> > read so we don't convert
> 
> it's kind of a pipe dream, but indeed, great documentation would be one of
> the  most effective things

That's the point of the developer guide which I've started, but haven't 
finished yet. I'll put some time aside to progress it.
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sebas

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