On 2020-04-06 21:50:01 +0000 (+0000), Nikolla, Kristi wrote: [...]
With regards to non-corporate: You can't really contribute to a project effectively (or even feel the motivation to) if you're not using it or integrating with it in some form. All the documentation in the world is not going to help with that. [...]
Yes, I don't see this as all that different from other open source projects, actually. Some users of your software will contribute to it when they see things which need fixing, changing or implementing. The confusion which seems to arise is that in the case of software like OpenStack, its primary users are businesses and other medium-to-large organizations, not individuals and hobbyists. And in fact some of our ancillary subprojects which are small utilities used outside these environments see contributions from more diverse sets of users. So if we want contributions from different places, what we should be asking is how do we change who uses the software.
With regards to corporate developer resources: I guess more outreach to sponsoring companies and being more persuasive. But, I'm not at all versed in the business-y side of things, so I defer to other folks on that one. [...]
After getting feedback from the OSF BoD, hope was that the Upstream Investment Opportunities documents would help fill that gap: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/upstream-investment-opportunit... -- Jeremy Stanley