Hi Mick Long time no see! And great to re-connect with you here on list.
I'm here with my contributor hat on so it's really nice to actually start getting involved with a project again.
Thanks very much the update and also including all the details around the website. (BTW the website is looking really cool!) I will run though it and see how it goes. I've joined the #cassandra-website and #cassandra-events slack channels so will follow those too.
On the non coding committers topic - I do have some experience around it and would be happy to share what I know.
Thanks Sharan On 2021-11-23 12:23, Mick Semb Wever wrote:
My name is Sharan Foga and I am new to the Apache Cassandra community. I would like to contribute to the project but am not a developer so am looking for ways to contribute that are not coding related (e.g helping out with things like community building, documentation, events, meetups, etc). As a start I will take a look through the project website, wiki space and the existing documentation and see if I can find something to work on :-)Hi Sharan! Thanks for connecting. We are honoured to have an ASF Board Director reach out! The project is ramping up on a number of non-coding fronts: website, documentation, social media, events, and project governance (from CEPs to voting to methods for contributor recognition…) Repeating Benjamin, with 4.0 we landed a new website and documentation. An immense amount of work has gone into this, but it is still very new and needs many small fixes and eyeballs. All, and any, help we can get there is most welcome. It should be a super easy place for a non coder contributor to get started, and it is definitely intended to be that very soon, but for the moment we are blocked and still working on merging CASSANDRA-16763. To build the website, you need docker, and to run the following steps: ``` git clone https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website.git cd cassandra-website ./run.sh website-ui bundle ./run.sh website build -i -b cassandra:trunk,cassandra-3.11 -u cassandra:https://github.com/polandll/cassandra.git -z ./site-ui/build/ui-bundle.zip # preview in your browser open site-content/build/html/_/index.html ``` (Note the second run.sh step will switch to use the official repo fork and branches once 16763 is merged.) There's a number of tickets that have been created that relate to the new website and docs, under CASSANDRA-16761. Otherwise, the docs are asciidoc that are easy enough to directly edit and open a PR against; so just reach out on #cassandra-website slack and the folk there will be very happy to help out in any way they can. There, and also on #cassandra-events, is where the activity around events and social media is happening too. There's been some interesting discussions there the past month around our twitter account, hashtags, and having a content pipeline in place. Beyond such hands-on non-coding type of contributions, we are also looking for inspiration on how better to recognise non-coding contributors, and even if the idea of non-coding committers has a place in the project. Ideas and examples on how other projects have done this would be a real contribution.
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