With this maintainer role, I kind of feel like we've been handed the keys to a Mack Truck after doing an online driving course, and I'm worried about running over roundabouts and parked cars on my way out to the highway.

Given that we've got at least 2 self professed newbie maintainers on this repo (@ragamouf @doujouDC ) and @libcce moving jobs and relinquishing his careful and dedicated curation of this repo (which has been awesome and super helpful), I would like to have a discussion amongst the maintainers here about what it is we think we're doing, and what expectations do we have for ourselves and each other.

For example, this Top 10 FAIR repo is a different kind of beast to the lessons in the Library Carpentry stable, and I wonder if we should have a long term goal to transform these resources into something that fits more within the carpentries lesson framework? If not, why not?

Another question I have falls into the slightly cringeworthy "ok, how do I actually do this?" category. My git game is pretty beginner, and I still have a reasonable amount of anxiety doing anything on this platform. I hope by being open about this I can enable others to ask lots of entry level questions, especially where the ground seems to overlap between the shores of 'this is how you do things in git' and gentle waves of 'here are the social rules for interacting on git'. For example, would we expect any maintainer to weigh into an issue even if they had only a small grasp of the issue at hand? For this last point, I'm sure there's something in one of the handbooks about this - allow me to refer to a previous email from the everpatient @libcce! Ahah! Lesson maintainers

Alright, that's perhaps enough to start with. I had trouble assigning fellow maintainer @juandesant to this issue, but maybe that's a matter of inviting him.

Keen to hear your thoughts :-)