Read my full blog post on this topic at progressplanner.com/we-need-to-r...

This way, we can have a great balance between new and experienced contributors, people show up prepared and they have a goal that can be achieved in a single contributor day to experience the real euphoria of contributing to open source!

I think we can do better.

Let's learn from the way the CloudFest Hackathon has been doing things:
* Prepare projects beforehand
* Make interested contributors (new & experienced) apply to a project
* Help them arrive prepared

Unfortunately, for many teams this means that by the end of the day, they haven't done any productive work. Experienced contributors haven't benefitted from being in the same room, and new contributors haven't experienced the excitement of actually seeing their work go into WordPress.

Oof... Marieke used quite a few quotes in the episode, but we may have missed this one! 🤯