What Every Community Needs

Yesterday I wrote that every project should make its governance discoverable. Here are a few other things that would help programming communities:

• tldr pages: one-line manual pages with practical examples.

• explainshell: automated drill-down explanations of commands.

• this vs. that: short explanations of the differences between things that are frequently confused.

• a glossary: preferably subsetted from a shared one because why reinvent the world?

• concept maps: or other remixable illustrations of key ideas.

Please let me know what else is on your list: I’m always grateful for pointers.