All contributors are welcome, new and old!
If you are interested in helping define and structure this work, you can find us on Discord.
We want to encourage participants to make non-code contributions to areas of the Mailchain project where their expertise can be best utilized.
This list below is meant to help new contributors looking for a good entrance into the project, and current contributors who would like to do something different.
Are you interested in any of the roles below? Come chat with us on Discord!
These are roles that either span the project as a whole, or span several areas of the project. Most of the roles below can be considered "good-first-roles".
- Community education
- Answering questions on issues, on Discord, etc.
- Onboarding new contributors
- Capturing the experiences of "Fresh Eyes" in the project
- Mentoring new contributors
- Documentation
- Contribute to Mailchain docs
- Maintaining troubleshooting page
- Documenting new features
- Press releases for new features
- Translation & localization
- Github management (Tags, repos, etc.)
- Evangelize Mailchain
- Doing demos
- Finding new contributors
- UX/UI Design
- Outbound community work
- Visual Communication
- Diagrams and visual explanations of concepts
- Infographic design
- Icon design
- Various artistic contributions to strengthen the Mailchain brand, evangelize the project, and develop community
- Visual Communication
- Non-Documentation writing
- Blogging about early experiences
- Operational manuals
- Walkthroughs
- How-tos about integration experiences, tools, etc.
- Maintaining this community documentation
- Volunteer management
- Finding/Funneling contributors
- Recognition of those who contribute a lot
- Recognition of projects and growth efforts
- Issue Triage
- Project management
- Confirming ownership of tasks, issues, objects, etc.
- Rectifying “owned by everyone, so owned by no-one”
- Confirming ownership of tasks, issues, objects, etc.
- Pull requests
- PR triage & labeling
- Editing PR text: release note, statement