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Report Guidelines

• A Mozilla Rep sponsored to attend or organize an event is responsible for blog posts about the event. The number of blog posts is based on the length of the event, and the posts should be spread throughout the event.
  • 1 or 2 days = at least 1 blog post.
  • 3 days = at least 2 blog posts.
  • 4 days = at least 3 blog posts.
  • N days = at least N-1 blog posts.

• The Mozilla Rep who is owner of an event should encourage all the other Mozillians participating in this event blog, tweet and publish photos of the event.

• The blog must be aggregated on Planet Mozilla.

• A brief summary of event must be sent to the Mozilla Reps mailing list at the end of the event that provides links to all the blog posts, both by the event leader and by other community members at the event.

Report Content Suggestions

The following are some general questions to think about when reporting back about an event and/or blogging about it.

• How many people were at the event? Was the Mozilla booth busy?

• What kind of comments did you receive about Mozilla? What were the most recurrent questions?

• What were the biggest complains about Mozilla? And the most common words of praise?

• Were there any questions that were asked many times?

• Were there repeated suggestions for improvement in a particular area for Mozilla?

• Did you meet anyone using Mozilla in an interesting way or on a large scale?

• Did you give any talks or lead any sessions? What did you cover? How many people attended?

• How much swag did you give away? What swag was popular? What swag was not so popular?

• Did you sign up any new Mozilla contributors? If so, to which projects?

• Include pictures in your blog post if at all possible.

• What other open source projects or like-minded organizations participated at the event? Did youlearn anything interesting from these organizations/projects? Did you make any interesting contacts?

Event Debrief on reps-general mailing list

Sharing a short debrief of an event you attended with other Mozilla Reps through the reps-general mailing list is also a very effective way at helping others learn through your experience and replicate your successes.

Here's a suggested debrief format that you can use:

[NAME OF EVENT] [DATE], [CITY], [COUNTRY]

[BRIEF SUMMARY in max 3 sentences]