Understanding a project’s ecosystem is the main barrier to entry. I’ve had community roles for different projects (Passenger app server, k6) and technology areas (Ruby, DevOps, Microsoft) but I found the Postgres ecosystem one of the most difficult to grasp.
However, the project and the people grew on me and I believe that in order for it to keep up with the growing demand as the most popular database according to StackOverflow, Postgres needs to onboard new contributors, and it needs to do so quickly.
There are plenty of people who want to contribute, but don’t know where to start. I think I do. Join me for a module I developed for inhouse training at EDB, that I’ll have open sourced by the time PGDay Austria takes place, in line with the project’s ethos.
