Contribute/Capacity

Capacity is a measure of the community building potential of teams. Knowing the capacity of a team helps us determine where contributors are going to most likely be able to successfully get involved and gives us insight into what areas to focus on to get more people involved with Mozilla.

Measuring Capacity

Capacity is measured by looking at three different factors:

• What are the community building resources on a team?
• What are the contribution paths volunteers can use to get involved?
• What data is available to provide visibility into contributor activity?

Each of these areas can be measured as high, medium or low and the combination of the three measurements provides on overall high, medium or low measurement of capacity for a team.

Resources

Resource measurements are made by looking at the following:

High	Team has one or more people dedicated to community building (Community Builder)
Medium	Team has one or more people spending part of their time on community building (Steward)
Low	Team has no one actively spending time on community building

Paths

Path measurements are made by looking at the documented set of steps new contributors can take to successfully contribute to a project:

High	Team has a fully documented contribution path
Medium	Team has a partially documented contribution path
Low	Team has no documented contribution path

Note: People may still be able to get involved in a project without a documented contribution path. Volunteers will show up and figure out what to contribute to and how to contribute, but as Mozilla grows bigger the ability for someone to do that gets harder and harder.

Data

Data measurements are made by looking at the types of community data available to a team to give them insight into contributor activity.

High	Team has an automated dashboard
Medium	Team has some manually maintained data
Low	Team has no community data available