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About

Welcome to the LF Decentralized Trust (LFDT) Contributor's Site — a one-stop guide to using, contributing to, and maintaining LFDT projects. This site collects contributor ladders, maintainer playbooks, governance templates, mentorship paths, and end-user contribution guidance under a single, vendor-neutral roof.

New here?

If you’re not sure where to start, visit Getting Started with Open Source at LFDT or Contributing as an End User. Adoption and feedback are high-impact contributions.

Contributor Ladder Task Force

The Contributor Ladder Task Force (CLTF) stewards community health across LFDT by helping projects build, scale, and retain contributor communities. Our focus areas include people-centric governance, contributor experience, communications, operations, and the tools/processes that support them. We aim to help projects grow flourishing, sustainable communities throughout the LFDT project lifecycle.

What we do - Publish guidance on contributor ladders, roles, and pathways - Offer best practices for governance and project operations - Coach projects on community growth, recognition, and retention - Maintain resources and templates that projects can copy and adapt

Want to collaborate with the CLTF?

Open an issue or PR on this site, or reach out via the LFDT community channels listed in project docs.

Join our CLTF weekly meetings

How to Contribute to These Docs

We welcome improvements! Typical edits include adding examples, clarifying steps, or contributing new pages.

  1. Edit or propose a page via GitHub (use the “Edit this page” link if available).
  2. If your content isn’t ready for prime time, mark it as a draft by adding draft: true in the page front matter.
  3. Open a Pull Request; a preview build will validate your changes.

See the contribution workflow notes in our Contribution Guide for this site. (Draft pages are hidden from production but visible to collaborators in PR previews.)

What You’ll Find Here

  • Contribute to a Project — starter paths, good-first-issues guidance, and contribution norms
  • Maintain a Project — governance patterns, maintainer checklists, release/ops tips
  • Mentorship — programs and playbooks to grow new contributors
  • End Users — how running LFDT projects in production and adding your org to adopters.md strengthens the ecosystem
  • Templates & Resources — copy-and-adapt materials for governance, community, and operations

Recognition & Licensing

This site adapts proven community-building patterns and materials shared by the broader open-source community. Content is provided under CC BY 4.0. Please attribute “LFDT Contributors” when reusing, and keep links to sources intact where noted.