Introducing yourself to the community
An introduction is optional. It helps when you plan to stay: people remember who runs which kind of site and can point you to the right answer or the right person later.
Contents
What to say
- What you do with Exponential: run a site, edit one, build them for customers, write extensions, translate, study it.
- How long you have used it, and from which release or which earlier system you come.
- What you hope to find or give: answers to a problem, people in your language or region, a project to help with.
- Your ties, if you work for a company that sells Exponential services. The code of conduct asks partners and
everyone who sells services to "Disclose conflicts of interest" (
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
What to leave out
- Personal data you would not want to stay public for years: a home address, a private phone number.
- Data about your customers or your site's users.
- Server addresses, administrator user names, version details of a production site that is not patched yet.
- A sales pitch. "Use community spaces to help, not to advertise" (
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
A template
Hello, I'm <first name or handle> from <city or country, optional>.
I <run / build / edit / develop for> <kind of site: a store, an intranet, a magazine ...>
on Exponential <version, if you want> since <year>.
I'm here to <learn X / help with Y / find people working on Z>.
<If it applies: I work for <company>, which offers Exponential services.>Keep it short. A question at the end ("Is anyone else running a multilingual store?") starts a conversation better than a long biography.
When someone else introduces themselves
- Welcome them by name and answer any question they asked.
- Point them to one page that fits what they said, not ten (Pointing to the right help page).
- Do not pitch your services in reply to an introduction.
See Welcoming newcomers for more.
Related pages
- Joining the community
- Where people meet
- Asking a good question
- Protecting people's privacy
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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