Mozillians/Phonebook/Vouching
The Phonebook offers a vouching and permissions service that helps determine the authorization levels a contributor has earned in the Mozilla Project. This feature is tapped into the tasks, events and other sub-community permissions they've earned via the Mozillian Passport service. The benefits include:
- A Mozillian's community-wide authorization level shown on their profile
- Their authorization level instantly offers greater privileges across the community in various sub-community tools and platforms
- Sub-communities can lower the cost of re-creating their own permissions structure and simply use Mozillians.org profiles to determine authorization levels.
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Contributor Levels & Attributes
Starting with the community descriptions created by David Boswell, we'll augment the approach with correlating Community Tools and Sub-community authorization levels. Information from a survey of our functional communities was used to determine the attributes of leveling as well.
Potential
People who may use our products, support our mission or show an interest in Mozilla without having made a substantial contribution back to the community yet.
| Source | Attribute |
| Community Tools |
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| Mozilla.org Properties |
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New/Casual
A new/casual contributor is a person who has volunteered small amounts of time in an activity that doesn't necessarily involve interactions with other community members. This can be someone who is just getting started in the community or has helped in the project before and come back.
| Source | Attribute |
| Community Tools |
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| Mozilla.org Properties |
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Active
An active contributor is someone who has volunteered substantial time (multiple tasks and/or events to one or more communities) to the project within the last 12 months.
| Source | Attribute |
| Community Tools |
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| Mozilla.org Properties |
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Core
A core contributor is someone who has a leadership position in one or more Mozilla project areas or is considered an authority over a specific functional area, team or project.
| Source | Attribute |
| Community Tools |
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| Mozilla.org Properties |
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Un-used Considerations
These are factors of contribution in our community that have not been taken into account formally. They may or may not be taken into account in the future depending on viability and usefulness.
- Time spent in community
- Amount of activity (now and in the past)
- Automated process from active to core
