--- title: From 22 contributors to 200+ learners: Equipping the... description: A project manager recounts building the CHAOSS Educational Resources program from scratch, growing a 22-person working group and reaching over 200 learners,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-22-contributors-to-200-learners-equipping-the-next-generation-l3ckj2pg6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From 22 contributors to 200+ learners: Equipping the next generation | daily.dev og:description: A project manager recounts building the CHAOSS Educational Resources program from scratch, growing a 22-person working group and reaching over 200 learners,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-22-contributors-to-200-learners-equipping-the-next-generation-l3ckj2pg6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/L3Ckj2pg6.png og:image:alt: From 22 contributors to 200+ learners: Equipping the next generation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From 22 contributors to 200+ learners: Equipping the next generation **[All Things Open](https://daily.dev/sources/allthingsopen)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A project manager recounts building the CHAOSS Educational Resources program from scratch, growing a 22-person working group and reaching over 200 learners, many from Africa, through free open-source contributor training courses hosted on Moodle. The piece covers the three-stage course development process (outreach, production, review), challenges around contributor retention, review workload, deployment, and sustainability, plus new course categories added after launch, including CHAOSS Software and Developer Hub tracks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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