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Draft: new Contributor Program roles to support the Driving Open Source Contribution goal

David Planella requested to merge contributors-job-family into master

Why is this change being made?

This is a proposal to constitute a new team to execute the 10x contributor goal as part of GitLab's 3 year strategy on Building on our Open Core strength

Notes:

  • Named the Evangelist roles as Contributor Evangelist (Contribution Evangelism) to differentiate them from Developer Evangelists (Product evangelism). This might have an impact in sourcing/attracting candidates, as the contributor part might not be industry standard, so we might want to revisit it.
  • Currently the Evangelist roles have a core of responsibilities that are the same, and are effectively duplicated. We might want to list only the core requirements/responsibilities as a single role and add what's specific about each specialty as a separate section. This alternative listing would not change the responsibilities/requirements of the roles.

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Edited by David Planella

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