Community starter kit

The open source community is full of the most passionate and talented people in the world. We know, because we work with them every day. Learn how to help the community find and contribute to your project.

In this course, you will learn about the informal standards the community has adopted to make it easier to find and contribute to projects.

What you'll learn

• How to add metadata and help potential contributors find your project
• The standard files contributors will look for and what they should contain
• Tips for building a healthy, welcoming community
• Other ways you can make your project easy to use

What you'll build

• You'll build a kit with your own, specialized documents and processes for launching your own community.

Prerequisites

In this course you will work with issues and pull requests, as well as edit files. If these things are familiar to you, we recommend you take the Introduction to GitHub course, first!

Projects used

This course uses many inspirations in the community for resources that you will customize and add as you learn.

Audience

Developers, GitHub users, users new to Git, students, managers, teams, open source contributors, open source maintainers