What strategies and methods did you find relevant when coming closer to the communities and projects you are contributing to?

When I first started searching for a community to contribute to, I wanted to participate in a community that had an easy way of speaking with each other. Even if GitHub can be used to communicate between people and to highlight different issues in the code, people might not be very active as it is not the main point of GitHub.

So I decided to only try to search community with a discord account. I found the project I am working on, and as I wanted, they had a discord channel. It is quite active with around 1 to 2 messages per week. When I started working on the project, it was very easy to join the conversation. People were welcoming and actively trying to help me.

However, once I started working on the code and using GitHub to discuss precise issues without polluting the main channel, the messages were sparsed.

I also found it was nice to search the different aspects the project could touch, on to better understand the culture of the project.

At the moment, I am still waiting for answers to my questions, but they should be resolved in a bit.