Welcome to NumFOCUS! We are excited that you are interested in contributing to our project.
Our project focuses on Open Source Governance Models.
In open-source software projects, the rules and customs that define who gets to do what, how they are supposed to do it and when is called a project’s "governance model." Understanding a project's governance model can help you make a successful, positive contribution to a project.
- Email our mentor, Arliss Collins, at arliss@numfocus.org and introduce yourself. Arliss will send you the link to an open source project in her Welcome email.
- Take a look at your assigned project to get an understanding of what they do, where and how they engage with community and how a someone can contribute to the project etc.
- Locate the project's governance model. Some projects have it on their websites, some have it on their main repo.
- Review the governance model to get an understanding of the ways the project governs itself ie. leadership structure, decision making procedures etc.
- When you're ready, create an issue in this repository.
- Add an appropriate label from those available.
- Add the following to your issue:
- Your name
- The project you were assigned
- Link(s) to the project governance model
- A written paragraph(s) describing ...
- the governance model
- any project roles (just the names are fine)
- the decision-making process ie. voting procedures, approval process etc.
- how easy or difficult it was to find and understand the governance model
- When you are finished cc @arliss-NF in a Comment on your issue