[This post was originally a Django Commons discussion and moved to the Django Forum]
Original author: @CodenameTim
What do folks think of regular (maybe quarterly) maintainer meet & greets where any established project has 1-2 minutes to explain the project, explain what they are wanting to do and what kind of help they would want. Ideally the audience would be people who are interested in contributing to a project with the hopes of becoming a maintainer.
I think humanizing who a prospective contributor would be working with may make it more compelling to stick with the work. Open source feels a bit daunting at first when it’s all new and it’s a bunch of strangers.
There is still the hurdle with finding those prospective folks and getting them to show up. On the other hand, we could potentially cut these videos up and hand them off to the maintainers to link to within their contributing docs? I’m not 100% sure, this is a jumping off point.