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Community Development: What We Do

The Community Development (ComDev) project provides a wide array of information, FAQs, and help to newcomers and existing committers, and maintains a number of helpful tools.

Mentoring for Individuals and Help Getting Around

• GSoC
• Contributors Guide
• Committers Guide
• Project Management Committees

Mentoring for Projects

• Incubator Mentors - Many folks here are IPMC members or mentors, too
• TLPs and sub-projects
• Project Community Ombudsman - get community advice on dev@community

Education + Outreach

• ApacheCon
• Partnered Industry Events (FOSDEM etc.)
• MeetUps, Apache BarCamps, etc.
• Event Representatives (booth coverage, etc.)
• Speaker Resources
• Stock Presentations
• Apache Ambassadors

Diversity

• Code of Conduct
• Surveys
• Women in Apache events (e.g., ApacheCon Luncheon, etc.)
• ApacheCon family activities (e.g., kids programming challenge, babysitting services, etc.)
• ApacheCon diversity scholarship (e.g., free registration, access to tutorials, etc.)

Conference Travel Assistance

• TAC - Travel Assistance Committee

Tools and Code we Maintain

ComDev manages a number of helpful tools for finding your way around.

• The Apache Projects Directory lists all our software projects. See the Project Directory code and the JSON data feeds available.
• Apache Committers Phone Book lists all individual Apache committers. See the Phonebook code.
• Some projects ask for help with easy-to-get-started tasks or bug fixes for newcomers. See the HelpWanted code.
• The Project Reporting Tool (requires login) helps Apache PMCs create quarterly board reports. See the Reporter code.
• The ComDev Wiki is also available for scratch or experimental work, although most permanent content should be here in the website.

The ComDev PMC maintains these tools, so bring questions to our dev@ list.

Physical artifacts

• Stickers: Files for you to print, as well as shipping stickers to some events, depending on geography
• Brochures: Files for you to print, for the ASF as a whole, and for various projects
• Banners and other promotional objects
• Assistance with producing swag

Book/Documentation Sprints

• Coordinating and producing documentation or book sprints

About This Website

The Apache Community Development PMC maintains this community.apache.org website and works through the dev@community.apache.org archived mailing list.

See our Newcomer FAQ for how to suggest changes to this website.

The content is written in Markdown and published automatically via a Jenkins job. Source code is hosted in a Git repository.

See the README.md for more info.