Summary

This chapter covered several aspects of making your project feel welcoming, including having a good project infrastructure, a positive and inclusive culture in bringing in end users, and enabling the larger community to showcase the project in new areas and drive collaboration in different arenas. We scratched the surface of community management, and there are entire books out there that go deeper into the topic, which would be great reads if you have more interest in this area.

A key aspect of making newcomers feel welcome is supporting them in becoming contributors and maintainers over time. Let’s look at this in more detail in our next chapter, Chapter 7, Growing Contributors to Maintainers, and see how to help contributors make that transition.