I’m Siddhi, M.Sc. Project Management student at GISMA University, Berlin.
Background: 2.75 years managing operations at scale ($1M+ programs), currently researching AI-driven battery storage optimization and grid coordination systems. EU citizen based in Berlin.
I’m joining OpenEMS as a community coordinator to help scale the contributor experience. I can help with:
✓ Discussion organization & templates
✓ Bug report triage system
✓ Contributor onboarding guide
✓ Community workflow optimization
✓ Forum structure & navigation
Goal: Reduce friction for new contributors, organize discussions, help route technical questions efficiently.
Excited to contribute to infrastructure that powers the energy transition!
Hi @siddhiphal, great to have you on board!
Looking forward to your support and contribution to this community. I’m just another (end) user, making small documentation contributions once in a while and trying to get our system up and running (which involves getting additional components added).
Personally I would suggest looking at following aspects (in no particular order), but there are probably more experienced people than me around:
“eat your own dog food”, imagine being e.g., a interested house owner. Set up OpenEMS yourself for the first time. Maye your first contribution to the repository. What did you struggle with? How can you support to ease it?
create a possibility (e.g., merge week?) for the core devs to bring open pull requests down to a small one digit number
set-up a process so that open pull requests stay a one digit number
triage open issues/bugs, bring the number down, exclude relevant issues from the stall-bot, prioritize relevant issues, feed them into the developer pipeline (not sure how close collaboration with Fenecon is in this regard)
ensure, that new bug reports have a good quality, such that devs can easily work on them
@siddhiphal, I’m curious, how has your first month been? How did you find your way around? Did anything from the above list spark your interest? What else did you spend your time on? Do you have any open questions someone here could answer? Looking forward to some status update.
