---
title: "Jupyter Community Committee Meeting"
description: |
A bi-weekly gathering of the Community Committee.
date: "2026-04-15"
author:
- name: "The Community Committee"
categories:
- "Meeting notes"
tags: [meeting-notes]
---

# Community Committee Meeting (2026-04-15)

Please add new agenda items under the `New agenda items` heading!

- [Previous meetings](https://jupyter.org/community-committee/meeting-notes/)
- [Jupyter Community Committee](https://jupyter.org/governance/list-of-standing-committees-and-working-groups/#jupyter-community-building) handy links:
- [GitHub repo](https://github.com/jupyter/community-committee)

## Attendees

* Jason Grout
* Lahari Chowtoori
* April Johnson
* Name

### Action items

- [ ] Oops, none of us actually put a Jupyter Community call on the calendar!

### Agenda & notes

* Caught Lahari up on our first initiative, Welcome Mat
* What is the welcome mat?
* Probably the website
* April thinks it's specifically the content on https://jupyter.org/community, because that page's job is to be *the place where community members go to connect and learn*
* Jason points out that it's not 100% clear what the entire jupyter.org website's job is
* Should we propose fixing some low-hanging fruit around the entire website and/or volunteering to own the entire website? :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
* Lahari suggests we design the community page around a few Welcome Mat use cases or personas, then recommend to the EC or foundation
* One thing we might also want to change is the experience of the jupyter.org front page for *people who want to contribute or to contribute more* (not total newcomers to Jupyter)

* Start on the website by focusing on the community page: https://jupyter.org/community
* There's also more content on community here: https://docs.jupyter.org/en/latest/community/content-community.html :cry: (what is the docs website's job?)
* This page is for people who are or who want to be contributors in the Jupyter community.
* Audience has some familiarity with at least some parts of Jupyter
* That could include a clear, central landing place for new contributors like a New Contributors Zulip channel
* Questions that should be easy to find answers to:
* What are things I could contribute to?
* How do I go somewhere and raise my hand and ask if I can help?
* Where are events happening? Regular meetings and conferences?
* How do I connect with others in the community?
* Are there monthly meetings happening?
* How many sub- projects are in Jupyter? How do I contribute to them? Who should I reach out to If I want to talk to people related to these sub projects?
* What are other contributor success stories?
* What are ways I can contribute other than code?
* Example: https://antennapod.org/contribute/
* Lots of easy quick handles on avenues for contributing