Try and attract a more diverse set of contributors.

[timcowlishaw]

Looking at the avatars of all of us who are actively commenting on PRs, it strikes me that we're a bit, well, homogenous.

What can we do to encourage a more diverse (and representative!) set of people to contribute to the project?

(h/t to @drmciver for bringing this to my attention)

[Floppy]

Definitely. @stringfellow pointed this out as well. I guess we can but spread the word?

[PaulJRobinson]

I guess early adopters tend to be drawn from a certain group? I'd like to
think this will even itself out as the project grows and slowly becomes
more mainstream. Currently at 9 contributors which is fantastic rate of
growth in recent weeks and hope it continues. Not sure what to suggest if
it doesn't even itself out by the time we hit 50 or 100.

with kind regards,
Paul Robinson

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[Floppy]

I guess it's spreading through our own networks, which are naturally drawn from a certain community. We should make a concerted effort to spread that out though.