Oh, one other obvious approach: tell them about a project you contribute to and can give pointers on contributing to, or even mentor.
For you https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Contributing.html ?
Another: projects that you have confidence are well run and welcoming, because you've evaluated them. For you https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/
:)
For you https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Contributing.html ?
Another: projects that you have confidence are well run and welcoming, because you've evaluated them. For you https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/
:)
These are great ideas! Thank you, Mike. I'm thinking of combining all the responses into a blog post; many of them have been, effectively, duplicates (which is fine), but yours were new.