2026-03-17 –, Room Wintergarten
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll create a No-Code Contribution Map to show how skills like writing, design, outreach, and accessibility promote adoption and inclusion. Leave with strategies to grow diverse, welcoming, and sustainable communities.
For open source to reach new audiences and grow sustainably, it must welcome and recognize more than code. Skills like event organizing, technical writing, design, and accessibility advocacy are vital to promoting adoption and building inclusive communities. Yet many projects still lack structures that value these contributions.
This 60-minute workshop reframes diversity and inclusion in open source by demonstrating how non-code contributions are powerful tools for outreach and growth. Participants will reflect on their own skills, map them to real project needs, and collaboratively create a No-Code Contribution Map, a framework that connects diverse abilities to concrete ways of promoting and sustaining open source.
We will also explore practices that support inclusivity: onboarding pathways for non-technical contributors and recognition systems that ensure everyone feels they belong.
Learning Outcomes:
Understand how non-code contributions promote adoption and inclusion.
Build a practical No-Code Contribution Map for open source projects.
Gain strategies for designing contributor journeys that welcome everyone.
Learn inclusive practices that strengthen open source outreach and growth.
Cynthia Udoh is a no-code open source contributor and community manager passionate about making open source more inclusive. She manages communities and newsletters reaching thousands, driving engagement through storytelling, growth strategies, and accessible practices.