How do you help your contributors and co-maintainers get better? How do you decline someone without breaking their spirits? How do you make sure that contributors flourish and learn, while still pointing out areas of improvement in a constructive and non-destructive or disheartening way?

Open source is only possibly through open collaboration, and collaboration is only successful through open-mindedness to new and different perspectives. Yet, there are still many challenges when it comes to diversity in open source. How do we intentionally diversify while still being genuine? What can we do to make it feel authentic