@chipcastle There’s a pretty decent chat-room crowd (100+ users, usually) on #meteor on irc.freenode.net. Unfortunately, most of the conversation is about using third party packages, or learning JavaScript instead of conversation that helps contributors or moves the community in a positive direction.
Yes, we’re working on this!
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I want to help. Count me in if there is an official list to register to.
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I didn’t really make it clear in my previous post, but I’ll be happy to help out too .
As @mitar said, it’s just not inviting right now. Though real nice to see some real good talk(s) during the Meteor Night presentation last night (not just on this). It was super clear that improving contribution was an important topic.
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Having something like nodebug.me should be right, I think? Willing to help!
As a person addicted to Meteor, I always keep an eye on GitHub Issues & PRs on Meteor. Sometimes it gives me a sense of “only if I had the write access!” when I see something I can do but with no permission.
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There’re my little cents on having a good community support: https://github.com/ourmeteor/discussions/issues/1
@laosb curious, what’s the benefit of that repo over a forum thread? Just worried about having another place to keep track of conversations.
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That’s exactly the direction we’re moving in! We want to make it possible for members of the community to have write access to Meteor core repos.
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Why is MDG relying on people to work for free to progress their business? You had $40+million of funding, If you can’t stay on top of the issues, then employ more people. Or, why not MDG fix the issues and let the community develop Meteor - and get paid for it!
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Sorry, That’s something only about setting up OurMeteor imo, as @mitar says on GitHub, I’m truly in a hurry of forcing the establishment of community organization. They’re not beneficial until most community active members agree on it.
Keep in mind that some people do not work over weekends. Allow them to respond at normal working hours.
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As a high-school student in China, I only have weekends and days off to work on that. No wonder!
Now it’s International Workers’ Day 
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Thanks @mannydesigns @abernix @laosb for putting your hands up. We’ll have a guide for triaging soon!
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MDG is not relying on people to work for free. They’re asking for help because it’s an open source project. Open source works because people care passionately about a project so much that they are willing to work for free.
If you want to be paid for working on Meteor, then just apply to work for them.
Also, that $40 million in funding doesn’t just go to hiring but also to hosting, marketing, travel, and so much more. If they could hire more people that easily, they probably would have.
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@merlinpatt is right. This is not about MDG making people work for free, it’s about enabling the community to participate in developing, maintaining and deciding the future of the framework, which is something many people in the community have asked for.
To follow up on this thread, @zoltan has put together a process for community issue triage: Documented issue triage process. Thanks for your input!
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Great can’t wait. Love to help wherever I can. Meteor is our platform of choice for all our development.
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Are the profits open source too?
It’s not like we are asking people to contribute to galaxy. Meteor is completely free and you don’t have to pay anyone for anything to use it.
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