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| Owner: Pathways Team | Updated: 2014-09-9 | |
| Vision: The Pathways working group seeks to remove the barriers to contribution so that participation, however it is defined, is beautifully simple. | ||
Pathways Community Building Working Group
Contents
Goal
Pathways is focused on contribution pathways for functional and regional areas as a way to identify, qualify and onboard new volunteers.
Vision
The Pathways working group seeks to remove the barriers to contribution so that participation, however it is defined, is beautifully simple.
Strategies and Goals
- Systems: Establish a discoverable, scaleable, brand-consistent online hub where contributors can intuitively find opportunites to participate.
- Mentorship: Make 1:1 mentorship a measurable requirement for all Mozillians.
- Motivation: Understand the motivations that drive participation in the Mozilla Project so that we create processes and programs that make all contributors' experiences as rich and gratifying as possible.
- Build Pathways: Establish a rigorous process that continuously pushes us to expand and evolve our definition of "contribution" and to design clear contribution pathways that support those proving most effective. This includes both improving and reinventing our existing contribution paths, and developing new opportunities for Mozillians to contribute.
What Makes a Pathway?
(collaborative document here: https://cbt.etherpad.mozilla.org/what-makes-a-pathway)
- Breaking down work
- Begin with the end in mind
- What are your project's goals?
- How will scaling volunteers support these goals?
- Turn these goals into deliverables
- Turn deliverables into tasks
- Plan iteratively (agile)
- Check in with community and stakeholders frequently and on a schedule
- Document everything
Kinds of Pathways
- Functional area pathways
- Regional pathways
- Product specific pathways
How to Participate
Meetings
See Contribute#Joint Recognition/Pathways/Education Working Groups meeting
Discussion Forum
Pathways communicates via Discourse and the CBT discussion list #pathways
Meeting Notes
Next Meeting
Previous Meetings
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- Agenda and notes from March 20, 2014 meeting (Notes)
- Thursday, March 6, 2014 (Notes)
- February 2014
- January 2014
Etherpads
Updated February 2014
Get Involved Details
Information about how the Get Involved page works to put contributors on to contribution pathways.
Contributor Conversion Points
In 2012, community builders decided upon a set of "conversion points" (or levels of participation) (found here) to provide information about the contributor lifecycle for the Grow Mozilla dashboard. See bug 736109 for details about implementing this and see The SuperStar Radar blog post for information about why this is helpful for community building.
Capacity
Capacity is a measure of the community building potential of pathways. Knowing the capacity of a pathway helps us provide support through programs and guides that are appropriate to their current situation. How do I determine my community's capacity?
Missions
Training missions are a scalable way to onboard new contributors to help them gain experience and develop skills that will allow them to successfully get involved in projects at Mozilla.
- Firefox development training mission -- Walks someone through how to turns the tabs of Firefox green by editing Firefox's CSS files
- Bug triage tutorial -- Walks someone through the basics of Bugzilla triage on test data
- What can I do for Mozilla? This walks through various languages and skills in which people may want to contribute!
- Learn to code by hands on coding Firefox!
