Disclaimer

• These are a set of notes for a brainstorming session about current issues with community involvement via QMO. They are, by no means, a reflection for any sort of planned project template.

Notes

Expectations

• keep it simple, start with a single button and make it linear on to how to join
• need an established audience or set of audiences to gear the website towards
  • people that are experienced have an easy path to where they want to go
  • people that aren't experienced are given a chance to find out where they want to go
  • can't worry about one size fits all, pareto principle
  • have a super simple and easy UI like webkit
  • audiences: mozQA, developers, tech-oriented interested parties, non-techy interested parties
• need users to feel empowered
  • lots of testers during release testing, not as many consistent contributors
  • simplify tasks, but makes sure they're things that the volunteers can write home about

Workflow

• get involved -> what are you interested in? what are our projects about? what do they do?
  • identify simple tasks and point them towards them first?
  • don't assume everyone wants to start with simple projects, some might be very experienced
• identify major contributing community members in a big way
  • schwag!
  • pictures on the front page (via mozQA blog) with their names
  • friends of the tree
• major project pages for nav bar
  • tools and code shouldn't be separated
    • code pages are project pages that people can join or find contact info to join them
  • Change forums to "Communicate" to include IRC within a webpage and newsgroups listings as well (co-join Keeping Up with Mozilla?)
• Blogs will be put on the front page
  • moz QA blog
  • possible: mozQA members
• Add a second sidebar for simple action items
  • file a bug, ran some testcases, open to other action items
  • this should replace the quick links section
• Account section should just be at the top
  • log out button at the top as well
  • take out the bottom left edit user section

Things to Add

• fix any bugs! there are currently 81 in the queue
• need more info on tools pages
  • docs and tutorials for each tool
  • better summaries, have each tool owner explain their tool in less than 50 words
• litmus ownership on the litmus page

Things to Remove

• stories, tasks, my bookmarks
• bottom left edit user section

Action Items

• Create a project page for QMO Discoverability
• send out project page ideas to the newsgroups