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Guide on helping brand new contributors find first tasks and match their skills/interests to projects/teams. | Guide on helping brand new contributors find first tasks and match their skills/interests to projects/teams. | ||
'' | ==Vocabulary== | ||
* Contribution area: An area of the Mozilla project open to contribution | |||
* Pathway: A set of steps for building skills and responsibility in a contribution area. | |||
* Guide: A person who helps a potential contributor find the contribution area that's right for them and start them along that area's pathway | |||
* Manual: A document which a Guide uses to help match a contributor up with a contribution area | |||
* Choose Your Own Adventure: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure A set of books in which the reader is the protagonist.] | |||
==Guides== | |||
* Need to know the contribution areas | |||
* Need to know the pathway entry points for each contribution area | |||
* Need to be know how to use the Manual as a tool | |||
* Need training? | |||
==Manual== | |||
* Lists contribution areas, and for each... | |||
** Keywords | |||
** Skills | |||
** Contacts | |||
** Pathway entry points | |||
** Passive communication channels | |||
** Inter/active communication channels | |||
* Model user types with "I want to..." | |||
** "I want to write code in <language>." | |||
** "I want to find a way to help but I don't know what and I have no skills." | |||
** "I want to add a feature to Firefox." | |||
* How to turn ambiguity into contributions | |||
** "I want to know when Firefox OS is available in my country." | |||
** "I want to get some stickers to give out at my school." | |||
** "I use Chrome and I think Firefox tabs look like poop." | |||
==Project== | |||
* Supports CBT Pathways goal #3 - Support brand new contributors and the projects they join by building a community of mentors and a system to support them. | |||
* Stakeholders/dependencies | |||
** Contribution area experts | |||
** Bedrock team - and decisions about Get Involved page. | |||
==Roadmap== | ==Roadmap== | ||
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* End of 2014 | * End of 2014 | ||
** Documentation for the guides for 2-3 starter tasks for each of the eight areas of Get Involved. | ** Documentation for the guides for 2-3 starter tasks for each of the eight areas of Get Involved. | ||
* End of 2015 | |||
** Human guides have been replaced by a bot written in Inform7 that converses with contributors and shepherds them into the right contribution area pathway. | |||