# Improving the onboarding process for new contributors

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-the-onboarding-process-for-new-contributors/882>\
**Category:** Community Feedback\
**Created:** [July 27, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-the-onboarding-process-for-new-contributors/882 "2023-07-27T11:33:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/martin/32/7_2.png) [@Martin](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/Martin)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/improving-the-onboarding-process-for-new-contributors/882/3 "2023-08-04T21:08:47Z")

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I am aligned with your approach @antonin_d. Better guidelines on contributing are recurring topics from my contributor's interviews. Overall I would like to focus on documenting contributors' pathways and potentially a contributor's handbook explaining how the project function. I think this work will have more impact than the [Proposition for the Ambassador Council](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/proposition-for-the-ambassador-council/822)

The contributor pathway would describe

- How OpenRefine is organized as a project, including (_this is only a rough list in no particular order_)
  - Usage of the forum and the GitHub repos,
  - Organization (with Code for Science & Society, current and past funder)
  - Governance and code of conduct
  - The project history
  - The project roadmap

- How to get started on the different contributor pathways ;
- The different tasks one can do and how to perform them ;
- The criteria to progress within the project, getting more permissions and accessing different tasks.

I found the following documentation regarding pathways:

- [Contributor Pathways — The Turing Way](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/project-design/persona/persona-contributors)
- [3.2. Contributor Personas & Pathways - Mozilla Open Leadership Series](https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/building-communities-of-contributors/bring-on-contributors-using-personas-and-pathways/)

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