Hey all, I wanted to introduce myself. I am Nathan Maynes and would like to get involved in an open source project. I currently work as a Data Engineer and recently participated at an Apache RoadShow event in Washington DC. At the event I was introduced to Airflow and became interested in helping the project grow. I asked a few Apache project contributors and committers for advice on getting involved. They all mentioned I should start by looking for ways to improve documentation. Following their advice, I stumbled upon the list of possible <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Season+of+Docs+2019> Airflow projects for Google Season of Docs (GSoD) 2019. I would love to get involved even if it is not via the GSoD program but don't quite know where to begin. Please forgive my ignorance if this message is off topic or more appropriate for another forum.
When I look at the possible project list on the project Confluence site, two of the projects jump out at me. The system diagram project is one I would be interested in working on. It seems much shorter than others on the list. Is that by design? Are these project suggestions meant to be combined to form a project of appropriate scale? The second project I find interesting and personally relevant is around setting up a local environment. This is something that I recently attempted and found frustrating. I think building out the documentation on getting started would benefit the project. As the Confluence entry points out, the documentation seems to be available, it just needs to be organized and polished. I am looking for feedback on whether a solid proposal for one of these ideas is enough. Should multiple ideas be combined into a larger project? Would instructional videos be desirable in conjunction with one of these projects? Again, I apologize if this is not the right forum for these kinds of questions. I will happily take feedback and ideas via the mailing list or on the Slack channel. Thanks everyone! -- Nathan Maynes <http://bit.ly/115hXAt> @nathanmaynes
