Contribute/Webdev/Group 10 21 13

Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Monday, October 21 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

• Action items from last meeting

• Debrief on Summit

• Improving visibility of opportunities
  • Featured Project section on the Webdev Get Involved page
  • How will we measure success? Number of mentored bugs fixed? Time for someone to take a mentored bug? Something else?
  • Do we want to rotate through different projects? SUMO, Reps, etc.

• Community building systems
  • How to build a community around the community building systems we need?

• 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

• Metrics
  • Webdev contribute dashboard is on Metric team's Q3 list
  • Blackhole may also be something we could use to get data
  • Additional automated badges will need to wait until we have better Metrics

Placeholder

• 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

• David to talk with Nigel B about a new webdev contributors report

• Ben and David to sync up to think through how a featured mentor section on Webdev Get Involved page could work