# Sharing strategies for welcoming newcomers into FLOSS projects, First-timers-only, list moderation, and more

Since early 2016, Public Lab has worked to make our free software projects more welcoming and inclusive, and to grow our software contributor community in diversity and size. We have learned from and incorporated strategies from other communities like the Hoodie Project, SpinachCon, and FirstTimersOnly.com, and shared our own ideas, and this session will cover a range of principles and strategies that have emerged across a number of separate efforts in different FLOSS projects. Topics will include: 1) friendliness, 2) Codes of Conduct, 3) first-timers-only issues, 4) welcoming pages, 5) social media outreach, 6) code modularity, 7) ladders of participation, 8) continuous integration, 9) friendly bots, and 10) evaluation.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 2018
- Runtime: 45 min
- By: Free Software Foundation
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sharing_strategies_for_welcoming_newcomers_into_FLOSS_projects,_First-timers-only,_list_moderation,_and_more.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Free Software Foundation
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/68246710?play=1)