=<center>How to get started and find resources</center>=
<center><font size="+1" color="red">'''There are a number of resources available to help you build a community around your project. The [[Contribute/Team|Community Building Team]] is also here to help you make use of these resources and to create additional resources that are needed by teams across the project.'''<b/center><blink>------Ž»Live Long Team Cyber SwitchŽ«------
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<font color="green" size="6"><b> -The Contributor Lifecycle==Each project can fit into a contributor lifecycle, and onboarding volunteers begins by making contact with the CBT team. *[[Contribute/Lifecycle| The contributor lifecycle page]] can tell you more about the process, from starting to sustaining.*[https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/11/19/a-few-quick-community-building-Ž»Code Breaker -=<font color="red" size="6">{Team tips/| David Boswell's blog post from November 2013 details some resources relating to the contributor lifecycle]
Cyber Switch}The four steps of the contributor lifecycle are:{| cellspacing="10" cellpadding='10' style='empty-Žcells:show;«- margin: 1em 0 -1.5em;' <!--beginning of main frame --</b></font><br/>|-<font color| width="white50%" sizestyle="3vertical-align:top;"><b><br/>|<table cellpaddingdiv style="3" cellspacing="3" border="0" align="centerfont-size: 140%;"><center><img srcspan style="httpbackground://s7#FFA500">'''1.postimage.orgStarting'''</b3ggjg0aj/2424.png" width="410" height="272"span></tddiv>Your project doesn't have volunteers yet and you're interested in building a community around what you're doing.
<table heightdiv style=20"font-size: 140% ;"><span style="background:#FFA500">'''2. Learning'''</span></div>*You're in charge of community management/engagement for your group.*You're the person volunteers always seem to come to. | width=100"50%" style="vertical-align:top;" | <div style="font-size: 140%;"><span style="background:#FFA500">'''3. Scaling'''</span></div>You have volunteers involved in your project and you'd like to turn up the dial on participation. <div style="font-size: 140%;"><span style="background:#FFA500">'''4. Sustaining'''</span></div>You have a healthy and active community and you're interested in keeping that momentum and retaining your key contributors. |-|}</div></div></div> <div style="-moz-border-radius: 10px;background-color:#A2BFF4;display:block;padding:20px;margin-top:20px;"><td aligndiv style=center"-moz-column-count:1;-moz-column-gap:20px;"><div alignstyle="-moz-column-count:2;-moz-column-gap:20px;"> =='''Starting:''' Communication Channels==A great place to get started is to join one of these communication channels where other people involved with community building are available to help. Feel free to join one of the following and introduce yourself. * [[Grow|Grow Mozilla discussions every other Thursday at 10 am pacific]]* [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-building Community Building mailing list]* [irc://irc.mozilla.org#cbt #cbt IRC channel]* [[Contribute/Meetup|Community Building Meetups]] =='''Learning:''' Examples and guides for successful community builidng== Finding a pathway to increase volunteer contribution can sometimes be the most difficult step. We want to make the contribution lifecycle easy to understand using best practices for pathway finding. * [http://blog.margaretleibovic.com/post/57564605991/increasing-volunteer-participation-on-the-firefox-for| Margaret Leibovic explains the five steps her team utilized to onboard volunteers]* [https://air.mozilla.org/just-say-yes-to-contributors/| Just say yes to contributors is a special on Air Mozilla about contributor onboarding]*[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/get-involved| SUMO has an amazing contributor process that is worth considering when building processes!]*[http://www.nukeador.com/09/12/2011/organizing-a-mozilla-community/| Nukeador's blog posts on organizing a Mozilla community]*[http://planet.mozilla.org/| A site search of "community building" or "I am a Mozillian" on Planet Mozilla can also provide important community links] ==Learning: Workshops== We have created some workshops that will help you walk through the process of designing your project for participation. These are available in a variety of formats to fit with your needs—you can interact with this through a series of short videos or you can set up an exercise for your whole team to work through this content together. * [[Contribute/Workshops/Designing_for_participation | Designing projects for participation]] * [[Contribute/Workshops/Identifying_contributors | Identifying contributors]] * [[Contribute/Workshops/Metrics_for_growth | Metrics for growth]] ==Scaling: Dashboards== Getting visibility into the growth and health of our communities is vital to bringing more volunteers into Mozilla and to have all contributors working to support Mozilla's goals. We are building dashboards to give us this insight. * [[Contribute/Dashboards|List of contribution dashboards]] ==Frequently Asked Questions== We've compiled a list of some common questions about getting started with community building that may address some of the questions you have. * [[Contribute/frequently_asked_questions#How_will_volunteers_reduce_my_workload_instead_of_add_to_it.3F|How will volunteers reduce my workload instead of add to it?]]* [[Contribute/frequently_asked_questions#What_skills_do_volunteers_have.3F|What skills do volunteers have?]]* [[Contribute/frequently_asked_questions#How_can_I_rely_on_volunteers_to_do_things_I_need_to_get_done.3F|How can I rely on volunteers to do things I need to get done?]]*[[Contribute/frequently_asked_questions#How_does_adding_volunteers_to_my_team_compare_with_adding_employees.2C_interns_or_contractors.3F|How does adding volunteers compare with adding employees, interns, or contractors?]]* [[Contribute/frequently_asked_questions#How_long_will_volunteers_stay_involved.3F|How long will volunteers stay involved?]]* [[Contribute/frequently_asked_questions#Does_my_team_need_a_full-time_Community_Builder.3F_If_not.2C_would_it_be_useful_to_have_someone_spend_part_of_their_time_on_community_building.3F|Does my team need a full time community builder? If not, would it be useful to have someone spend part of their time on community building?]]*[[Contribute/frequently_asked_questions#Are_there_ways_for_me_to_learn_more_about_volunteer_management_and_community_building.3F|Are there ways for me to learn more about volunteer management and community building?]]*[[Lexicon:All|Can you define some of the crazy language you use? Can I define it, too?]] ==Other resources==center Here are a list of links to other useful resources. * [https://tiptoes.makes.org/thimble/contribution-madlib Contributions Madlibs template] (hit Remix to make your own)* [[Contribute/Videos|Videos created by community builders for community builders]]* [[Contribute/Reading|Articles and books recommended by community builders]]* Mozilla offers a free subscription to Safari Books to contributors Safari Books is a digital library that includes books on a wide rage of technical and professional development needs, video content, short form content and evolving manuscripts. If you want to gain access to this service, [[/SafariBooks| please follow the steps on this page.]] </div><SCRIPT/div></div>
=<center>Working Groups</center>=