Community
The Exponential community: taking part, channels, events, the code of conduct and contributing.
54 pages
- The code of conduct for community members What the Exponential Code of Conduct asks of community members - the Contributor Covenant 2.1 with Exponential additions - where it applies, how to report a problem, how the Exponential Foundation decides, and what it…
- Contributing documentation and help pages How community members improve the Exponential help and documentation - fixing a page with Edit on GitHub, writing a new help page with the right front matter, the style rules, checking links with exp:help check, the GNU…
- Helping others in the community The landing page of the helping-others part of the community section - answering questions, welcoming newcomers, mentoring, writing tutorials and posts, and keeping the help accurate.
- Welcoming newcomers to the community How community members make a newcomer's first contact with Exponential a good one - first replies, the five pages to point to, people coming from other systems or from the old product, and newcomers who are not…
- Mentoring in the community How experienced community members mentor newcomers through their first Exponential contributions - choosing a task, setting up, the first pull request, review rounds, and handing over - with a four-week plan and…
- Writing tutorials and posts for the community How community members turn what they learned about Exponential into tutorials, forum write-ups and posts others can find - choosing the place, a structure that works, testing every step, licensing your writing, and…
- Keeping community help accurate How community members keep the help they give accurate - where the facts live, checking claims against the software and the repository, dating numbers, correcting mistakes openly, and saying "not documented" when that…
- Licenses in the community The licenses a community member meets in Exponential - the GNU GPL version 2 or later for the code, the GNU FDL 1.3 or later for the documentation, the CLA for kernel contributions - and what each means when you use…
- The community for students and newcomers How students and other newcomers learn Exponential with the community - a free test installation on SQLite, learning resources, safe first contributions that build a public portfolio, the Student partner level, and how…
- Local groups and community events The landing page of the local groups part of the community section - what the sources say about events (none are documented), how community members can start their own local or online group, run a contribution day, and…
- Starting a local group How a community member starts a local or online Exponential user group - finding interest, choosing a format, the first meeting, a simple agenda, keeping it going, and announcing it honestly as a community-run group.
- A contribution day How a local group or company runs a contribution day for Exponential - preparing tasks and test installations, a timetable, pairing newcomers with experienced members, the rules every contribution follows, and following…
- Community safety and privacy at events How organizers of Exponential community events keep them safe, welcoming and private - the code of conduct at events, a named contact person, accessibility, photos and recordings with consent, attendee data, and what to…
- Exponential Community Exponential is made by its community. The Exponential Community is everyone who uses, contributes to, promotes and develops software using Exponential worldwide: site owners and editors, developers and designers…
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