Mozilla UK/Meeting 2011
The overall aim of the meeting is to define specific objectives for Mozilla UK for the next 6 months and specific goals to achieve. Working with communities for the past couple of years, I'be learned that the most active and strongest communities are the ones that plan well ahead and define a clear roadmap. With a clear roadmap, you have a better sense of purpose and better visibility on what you want to achieve and how to get there.
Mozilla UK has done some great work so far, but it's really time to take your work to the next level, and make Mozilla UK become a vibrant community that recruits new contributors regularly and that becomes a reference that people go to in the UK whenever they want to know the latest about Mozilla and want to get involved. This meeting will be the first step in figuring out how Mozilla UK can go from being a small community with a cool community portal, to becoming a vibrant and dynamic community that all UK Mozillians have heard about and support.
Session One
Questions to answer:
- what's the market share of Firefox in the UK?
- fx4 downloads: ~3million
- market share:
- 2005: > 10%
- 08 - 09: ~ 25%
- 09 - 10: ~25%
- 2010 - 2011: ~23.5%
- this can be attributed to the release of chrome
- percentage of total fx market share:
- how does Mozilla UK compare to other communities in Europe?
- everything relative to Europe
- scattered,
- unconnected,
- no resource issues EXCEPT time requirement
- locale is not an easy way to get involved due to en-US being sooooooo close to en-GB
- this does mean we can focus on other areas that might see neglect else where in the Euro zone
- everything relative to Europe
- what's been achieved?
- Hosting/Domain set up
- Rough idea on numbers
- Solidified contributor involvement through events like London addons workshop and firefox4 launch party
- Driving traffic to website
- potential to get large quantities of contribs to uk community
- Basic content on website
- what are you most proud of?
- site
- it exists
- big push to start
- xmas we can push
- great potential (~5k visits per month at peak)
- UK community is starting to be identified
- site
- what are you least proud of?
- not enough active AND noticed contribs
- site not efficient enough and admins not got time to work on it intensively
- what's working well?
- some stuff....
- what's not working so well?
- forums
- general uk updates on the site
- who are the most active contributors in the UK right now?
- moz staffers and localisers
- how often do Mozilla UK contributors meet in person?
- mozpub capable of running monthly meets events and getting people to attend
Things to do
- get stats from moz areas on
- continue getting the word out about what the web browser is
- Top 5 priorities:
- Website!!!! (Functional not form, include things that easily link up with the other 4 priorities 'the hub of what we're doing')
- Formalise the community (get SUMO, QA, l10n, all together under one banner (but let them get on with what they're doing)
- Planet uk
- MozPub like events (announced and reported about on planet uk, also a calendar for upcoming events)
- Getting mozilla into schools, unis, companies, etc. (guildfloss event in June)
Session 2
2nd part (2 hours): brainstorm about what each person in the meeting sees as the top priorities for Mozilla UK for the next 6 months and agreement on what the final top 5 goals should be for the next 6 months. Here are some questions you might ask yourself:
- what needs the most attention right now?
- see things to do above
- what are the problems that needs to be addressed and solved asap?
- Content/Structure/Frequency of updates on the website
- is Mozilla UK recruiting enough contributors?
- No.
- how many events does Mozilla UK organize in a year?
- MozPub has the capability to produce one a month, linking components together
- Frequency depends on local scale
- is Mozilla UK working closely with other open source projects? (ie. Ubuntu or Fedora?)
- Not that we're aware of.
- what are other open source projects in the UK doing well and could be replicated by Mozilla UK?
- Drupal, London Web Standards, Ubuntu UK Community, LibreOffice, major OpenSource projects have a UK branch
- does Mozilla UK collaborate with schools and/or universities?
- Mozilla UK themselves not, Mozilla on a global scale does collaborate, talk to William Reynolds (Student Reps)
- is Mozilla UK present and active in SUMO? l10n? QA? etc..
- Mozilla UK contributors are active in all of these parts of Mozilla
- --> Small milestones that are feature-complete, branching into versions, that get bigger in time
- Task tracking online to see who's working on what (Quality Control for Wordpress)
Session 3
This final part is the goals-setting part. Based on the priorities identified in the earlier part, everyone should discuss and agree on the 5 key goals of Mozilla UK for the next 6 months.
- Get the Website up and running
- As the website is the centre of all of Mozilla UK's operations, in order to get all our other goals done to their full potential we need to get a functional website up and running. To do this we're going to scrap the existing website just saving the content where needed (and putting it on the wiki) and start afresh with a new install of Drupal 7 with no fancy theme for the start and just content
- Formalise the community (get SUMO, QA, l10n, all together under one banner (but let them get on with what they're doing)
- Planet uk
- MozPub like events (announced and reported about on planet uk, also a calendar for upcoming events)
- Getting mozilla into schools, unis, companies, etc. (guildfloss event in June)