Breakout: how to attract new contributors?

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> 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
>
> discuss!

Maybe we don't just lack documentation.

What kind of contributions are we expecting? It would be interesting
to have an outline of what kind of things we're interested in having
so people doesn't only contribute but also know confidently that
they're working in our direction.

Aleix