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Justin Dow, Matthew Zeier and Corey Shields | Justin Dow, Matthew Zeier and Corey Shields | ||
= | =Identify Community= | ||
Q: Can you identify all of the contributors on your team (both paid-staff and volunteer-staff)? | |||
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Suggestion: Use the [http://www.mozillians.org mozillians.org contributor directory] to help. Communicate through your team's channels and encourage people to sign up and group themselves with a common team tag. | |||
=Define Contribution Opportunities= | |||
Q: Can you point someone interested in contributing to your project to a list of available contribution opportunities? | |||
==Brainstorming for entry points | A: | ||
Suggestion: Look at what your team's needs are and what gaps you have in staffing to come up with a list of contribution opportunities. Capture those on a wiki page, in bugs, as role descriptions in Jobvite or whatever makes sense for your community. | |||
=Map Contribution Paths= | |||
Q: Are there clearly understood steps someone can follow to go from knowing nothing about your project to successfully contributing? | |||
A: | |||
* Join the public #it channel and say hi. (the first step to getting known and trusted) | |||
* Volunteer for one of the IT roles (for instance, Air Mozilla Stage Hand) | |||
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Suggestion: In addition to just documenting these steps, look for a simple 5-minute task that someone can take to get started (for example, signing up for Bugzilla if they are interested in coding) and also figure out where in the process you can add a mentor to help people. | |||
=Establish Goals and Metrics= | |||
Q: What goals does your team have for bringing in new contributors and how can you measure if you are successful? | |||
A: | |||
* Number of mirrors? | |||
* Patches to Air Mozilla? | |||
Suggestion: Write down what you think would be helpful to track even if it isn't possible to get that data today. We'll work on implementing dashboards when we know what data we want. | |||
=Brainstorming for entry points= | |||
Challenge: There are sysadmin tasks for contributors to do but it requires establishing a certain level of trust first. What useful activities are there for new people that will help build up that trust? | Challenge: There are sysadmin tasks for contributors to do but it requires establishing a certain level of trust first. What useful activities are there for new people that will help build up that trust? | ||
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* Look at what other open source projects are doing, eg [http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-volunteer.html Apache's Infrastructure team] | * Look at what other open source projects are doing, eg [http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-volunteer.html Apache's Infrastructure team] | ||