== Potential projects for the onboarding part ==
* A research study through feedback survey & 1:1 interviews with participants of the current round of GSOC and Outreachy geared at understanding why new developers get attracted towards contributing to our software projects, what challenges they face in this process, and why they plan to stick or leave our community.
* Revise outreach program docs
* Design & develop a newcomer portal taking inspiration from other projects.
** e.g. https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers
** https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Introduction
** https://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/#!/progornoprog/softtest
* Introduce a new tag for newcomers e.g. #newcomer-friendly. Coordinate with teams on making a variety of such projects discoverable for newbies on a regular basis.
* Partner with local groups such as Women Who Code, Black Girls Code, R-Ladies and outreach programs for underrepresented & minorities.
* Consolidate results from group chat mentoring project, and decide on next steps.
=== Too ambitious? ===
* Explore modern alternatives of Wikimedia planet, and where else to celebrate newcomer contributions
* Explore discourse as a Q&A option for mailing lists
=== Resources ===
* How to encourage new contributors? https://opensource.com/article/17/4/encourage-new-contributors
* Making your open source project newcomer friendly http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/01/03/making-your-open-source-project-newcomer-friendly/
* Attracting, onboarding and retaining developers http://www.igor.pro.br/publica/papers/GSD_CSCW2014.pdf