Accepting Contributions

Note: this is very early days for the project, and this section will change as I figure things out. Please check back later if you're curious.

I've given a talk titled Working Distributed - How Does It Even Work? a few times, based on my first few years working remotely for GitHub, but after taking a break from the conference circuit a couple of years ago I recently found myself looking to update this talk as I felt I had more to share.

Rather than updating the talk or creating a new talk I chose to flesh out the content as a website, as it enables me to do a bunch of things that weren't previously possible, including:

I know I'm not the only one with experience and insights about the topic of distributed teams and working remotely, so I wanted to set out in detail where I think this could head and how you can get involved.

Small edits

If you find something on the site that could be improved - to address a typo or a gramatically error - I'd happily accept an open issue to track the problem. If you have a GitHub account I plan to make it easy to jump straight from any page to the source site in the repository to make edits, but that's not implemented yet - see issue #13 for more details on this.

Anyone who submits a typo fix or pull request that gets merged will get an acknowledgement on the site, as well as in any further outputs spun out from this work (for example, a friend was suggesting that I could turn this into a book).

For the moment I'll track this in the front matter for each file, like this:

---
title: Accepting Contributions
contributors:
  - Your Name Here <name@example.com>
---

I've included an email address for contributor entry to cover me for the unlikely event that I need to contact you in the future about how contributions are managed, but if you prefer to not be contacted this can be omitted from the repository.

I haven't yet figured out how to present this list on the site, but once I'm happy with the layouts for the content this will likely become clearer to me.

Articles or other significant contributions

I'd love to be able to incorporate significant contributions from other people as part of this project, but I want to ensure that I handle contributions in an appropriate way.

The content of this repository is published under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA which allows for sharing and remixing the work, but specifically prevents using this content for commercial purposes. By submitting a pull request you understand that the content provided will be made available under this same license.

If there are any profits from this project, I'll likely donate them to a charitable cause or organization relevant to the project. I'll update this section as things become clearer so that contributors are aware of what's involved.