Add a "contributions welcome" message somewhere on the site

[ArendPeter]

The suggestion

I think it would be nice if we could highlight somewhere on the website that we're open to having more collaborators on the project, and pull requests are welcome.

Examples

I looked at some other open source projects for reference. There seems to be a spectrum of process when it comes to collaborators

Playful / community focused projects

• https://mermaid.js.org/ : Most of the page is dedicated to their contributors, and there's a "Join the community" call to action on the bottom
  • https://just-the-docs.com/ : A github link in the sidebar, and contribution guidelines on the bottom

Middle ground

• https://apps.ankiweb.net/ : Nothing on the home page, but there is contribution guidelines buried in the docs https://docs.ankiweb.net/contrib.html#contributing-code
• https://jekyllrb.com/ : Text in footer "Jekyll is lovingly maintained by the core team of volunteers."
• https://www.keycloak.org/community : Has a community tab but no other mention of it

More serious projects

• https://godotengine.org/ : Nothing about contributions on the main page, but they do have a governance link in the footer which includes contribution information
• https://nodejs.org : Nothing on the home page, but there is governence details in the about section https://nodejs.org/en/about/governance

My conclusion

After looking through examples, I don't think we need to feature this too much in the footer. We'll want to lean more on the side of the serious/bigger projects because we want to signal confidence that there's an organization behind this project rather than a scattered community.

We'll probably have sections later covering governance and contribution guidelines (possibly on the about page), but these don't need to be featured super prominently in the footer. I think keycloak is the closest to where I'm leaning (both in terms of website structure, and in the way their community page is written)

[ArendPeter]

I suppose this would live on the about page? We should probably have this design figured out before doing public beta

[ArendPeter]

We have this on the about page now https://dev.star.vote/About