How to participate as an organisation

Why should you participate as an organisation?

High ROI - Minimise effort & leverage the C4GT community for quality contributions.
Community-Led Effort - Ensure sustainability & adoption with access to long-term contributors.
Innovate - Conduct PoCs, new feature development & more through the community.
Identify Talent - Create a talent pipeline through active contributors.
DPG Visibility: Higher DPG visibility with a DPG Readiness Framework.
Engage with Adopters - Connect with potential adopters who are a part of the community.

Expectations from DPG Organizations

Link Projects - Share a wide variety of project types with varying levels of complexity.
Update Documentation- Ensure product documentation is up to date & easy to comprehend
Engage Contributors- Be proactive, and engage on tickets & the community
Incentivise Contributors - Consider paying contributors per ticket, and providing learning opportunities, certificates, and possible employment opportunities.
Build Product Awareness- Feel free to use our Discord channel to build awareness around your product so that contributors can connect with your vision. This will lead to a higher number of contributions.

Please refer to the DPG Readiness Framework to understand the key requirements for a product to ensure maximum open-source contributions.

Submitting projects to the community program

Step 1 : Install the C4GT GitHub App - Please install this GitHub App in your product repositories so that we can access your repositories and track the C4GT community ticket to make it automatically discoverable for the community.
Step 2 : Format existing/create new issue tickets - Use this issue template to update existing or create new tickets that you want listed in the C4GT Community. The consistency of this template will improve the experience of the community to explore and comprehend your tickets. Note - For all tickets that are being updated/added as per the format. Please create a label called C4GT Community and tag all tickets with that label. This is key to making the tickets automatically discoverable. In addition to this label, kindly also add one or more of C4GT Bounty, C4GT Coding, C4GT Design, C4GT Mentorship and/or C4GT Advisory depending on the kind of ticket for this. For example, if you wish to upload a coding related ticket that has a bounty amount attached to it, add the labels C4GT Community, C4GT Coding & C4GT Bounty to it. For design, mentorship and advisory tickets we require a 1 to 1 mapping for tickets and contributors. For the same, we request you to make a copy of this google form in your own drive and attach a link to it in the issue ticket for contributors to fill in. This way you will be able to see all the applications that come in and assign it to the selected contributor. We have also provided a proposal template that has been attached in the google form for interested applicants to use as a base. Feel free to make a copy of it and edit it to suit your needs better.
Step 3 : View your ticket on the C4GT Community - All projects with the shared taxonomy once tagged to C4GT will be automatically listed on our C4GT Community for contributors to discover on the Community Projects Listing Page You can view the ticket and drive any communication/clarification with interested community members on your respective Discord product channel.
Step 4 : Ensuring the correct contributor gets C4GT points - C4GT Community Coding Projects have a single method for contributors to apply: through GitHub comments. Potential contributors can display their interest by commenting on a ticket. The organization will then assign the ticket to one of the applicants. After that the assigned contributor will raise a PR and the organization will merge it if it is of the required quality. If the organization deems the contributor is not active or of the required quality, the organization will need to unassign the ticket and can reassign it to someone else. C4GT Community Design, Mentorship and Advisory Tickets have 1 to 1 mapping of project to contributor. After going through the applications received in the google form attached to the ticket, you will have to assign the ticket to the selected contributor on Github and close the ticket. Please inform the C4GT team of who has been chosen and if they successfully complete the project, we will award them the points.