When the VMware Tanzu Community Engagement team assembled three years ago, we did so with the belief that strong, sustainable community engagement is a crucial component of successful open source projects. By Jonas Rosland, Abigail McCarthy, and Amanda Katona.
Regardless of whether you are starting a new open source project or are already deep into an existing one, we’ve learned it’s never too late to create a solid foundation of resources and processes to help community members contribute. We recommend starting with the GUIDELINES.md file. It provides a checklist of project components that we’ve found essential to developing healthy community engagement within any open source project.
Now let’s dive into some of the resources authors have made available:
- Create a solid foundation for community engagement
- Perform health checks
- Use inclusive terminology
There are many other potential use cases in open source projects where Vale can be leveraged; we highly recommend checking out the amazing repository of styles that GitLab has put together. Good read and starting point for anybody building open source community!
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