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Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Thursday, March 8 at 10 AM Pacific (times around the world)
• Audio: 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 634
• Back channel: irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozillians

Agenda

• Introductions

• Grow Mozilla name change and role of two types of meetings

• Michelle's experience with support inquiries from Get Involved page

• Mitchells [closing keynote video from MozCamp in Berlin] -- great information about community building

• Contributor Audit update (data in review, next steps)

• Governance threads: How can we help people better understand community processes?

• Action plan update: Coding Stewards are auditing key milestones in Bugzilla and are looking how to improve the experience for new volunteers. Bug 721206 tracks sending an email when someone has their first patch approved.

• Recruiting volunteers at events (standing item)
  • Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 27-March 1) Not happening: Feb 26 local contributor/developer community event & other participation. WIP Jam (mini dev conference within the MWC) takes place on Mar 1. Advise Shez & Chris Heilmann of contributor opportunities. (Havi)
  • MozCamp Latin America (April 20-22) - Havi will keep the group up to date on Dev Event on 4/20 and opps there.
  • Proposed "Mozilla Day" recruitment day in Minneapolis (cf: @glind). Leave-behinds, schwag, other help and ideas welcome.

• Logistics -- we are currently overlapping time with the Director's meeting. Should we move this by a week to get out of sync? Con is that the Director's meeting sometimes slips so we may never be able to always avoid conflicts.

Other items if there's time

• Report back: Creating a contributor strategy for MozSpaces

• Report back: Next steps for video footage from Summit

• Report back: Town halls and giving contributors more of a voice

• Report back: Casey on his experience contributing to webdev

• Question: How do you help people who just want to be assigned a task?

• Question: How can we help events be more effective at bringing in contributors?

• Question: How do you balance doing something yourself vs. helping someone do something?

• Question: How can we get contributors involved in our web projects?

• Question: How do you not lose track of people just starting to get involved?

• Question: How do people deal with negative feedback and stop energy?

• Feel free to add more questions or other agenda items...