Contribute/Webdev/Group 02 10 14

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Meeting Details

  • Meeting time: Monday, February 10 at 10:30 AM Pacific
  • Video: David Boswell's vidyo room (use this link for guest access)
  • Audio: If video doesn't work, call +1 800 707 2533, pin 369 - conf 9634#
  • Back channel: #webdev

Agenda

  • Increasing meeting attendance
    • Is current time not ideal? Do we need a focus like launching badges.mozilla.org? Are people too busy?
  • Million Mozillians goal for 2014
    • How does this shape what we want to do this year?
  • Mentoring pilot
    • Mentoring pilot project around maintaining and updating local community content on new Contact page
    • Identifying the needs of the Bedrock team
    • Identifying people interested in helping out
    • Matching people into a mentoring relationship
  • Metrics
    • Nigel B interested in monthly new webdev contributors report
  • Webdev Community Manager role
    • Drafting a webdev community builder job description
    • Should this role be a combination of Webdev and Gaia Community Manager?
  • Opportunities to coordinate with Web QA

Placeholder

  • Webdev hackathons
    • Luke to draft template
    • willkg also looking to do a webdev hack session at Summit that could serve as a template
    • Next step will be to try it out and document how it went
  • Webdev Badges
    • New badge ideas:
      • Mentor badge
      • Partner badges (ie, someone who has contributing pull requests to both Mozilla and other open source projects, like Code for America, Wikipedia, etc)
    • Other badge topics
        • Integrating badges into Webdev teams' workflow
        • Building out badges to be issued manually by Webdev team members (badges around mentoring, thanking, etc.)
  • Reducing barriers for new contributors
    • Top priorities
      • How to contribute to a Mozilla web site screencast (Sancus)
      • Making contact and bug tracking information easier to find on sites (bug 766906) (Rik)
      • Firebug + Firediff for easy CSS hacking without needing to install site (Sancus)
    • Other ideas (need to prioritize)
      • Linking to the Github page template in footer of pages on Bedrock (Rik)
      • Improving documentation and clarifying how different sites have small but significant differences to be aware of
      • Reaching out to Petri team to see if they could help make it easier for front-end webdev contributors to access to a staging site
  • Tulsa Webdev hack day
    • Looking for mentors to prepare contribution opportunities and be available online during event
    • Using this as a template for Reps to run other webdev hack days
  • Creating a workflow for how to handle webdev inquiries
    • Documenting current workflow
    • Enhancing current process (follow back up with promising leads 2 weeks after first contact, recognizing volunteers with a public post or swag after finishing first mentored bug)
  • Piggybacking on other contributor efforts
    • Coding pathway: How to make use of http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ and collaborate with Coding Stewards
    • Design pathway: Are there relevant CSS and web design contribution information to add to Design wiki page for design contributors?

Action Items

  • Ben to talk to his team about contributor growth goal in 2014