Websites/Affiliates/Meetings/Weekly-2014-07-16

Meeting Info

• Date: July 16th, 2014
• Time: 1:30 PM Pacific
• Vidyo Room: Michael Kelly
• Public Join Link: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=pM4XGn9QCEWQ
  • Vidyo Instructions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Vidyo

Attendees

• Michael Kelly <Osmose>
• Jessica Osorio <jessosorio>
• Eli Kariv <Foufy>

Summary

• Immediately, the dev team will work on:
  • Merging, testing, and deploying the public stats dashboard, estimated to be deployed the week of July 21st.
  • Investigating how to deal with fraudulent clicks. A plan of what we should implement should be ready by the July 21st weekly update. The feature is due by August 25th at the latest, are preferably as soon as possible.
• Foufy will file a request with the creative team for the missing banner variation images.
• jessosorio is working on a roadmap for Affiliates that will outline the long-term vision of the site.
• Both Foufy and jessosorio are looking through the existing bugs for Affiliates to create a new prioritized list of bugs. An older version of this is available.
• There is a discussion on the mailing list about what constitutes an Active Affiliate.
• There was brief discussion of why people become Affiliates and how we can provide incentive or identify reasons why people who aren't currently Affiliates may become Affiliates. This discussion is encouraged to move to the mailing list.

Agenda and Notes

• Immediate work
  • Public stats dashboard
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027176
      • Code review almost done, should be done today.
      • Expected to be deployed next week.
  • Broken things (Fix these immediately!)
    • Fraudulent clicks
      • OUR NEW P1
    • Adding variations for missing previews
      • This is significant enough that we probably need to include it in the brief, which implies a non-immediate resolution. Are we okay with that?
      • Related bug that could help a bit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038890 (marked as P1)
  • New Additions (Important but not immediate)
    • Tracking downloads?
      • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760663
      • There is a plan
        • Analyze Bouncer logs
        • Requires a change to bedrock as well as Affiliates
    • Social sharing?
      • Is there a bug, were we still doing this immediately?
  • Timeline?
    • End of August?
• Roadmap of future work
  • Long-term roadmap that we will create briefs from
    • For Affiliates, we will use briefs to describe a chunk of work up to 3 months that has a deadline and requires paid contributor effort.
      • is this separate from what the community can work on? or only available to paid staff?
        • Nope, this is for planning commitment from paid staff, not to take away from what community can work on.
    • In-progress: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1w9gSDVc9H9otiAN1-qmUAt9QdOuSdvOrfDm40F5IQ08/edit#heading=h.t9e092wam4vk
• What is an Active Affiliate?
  • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.affiliates/oPMo7zvpcNk
  • Osmose's proposed definition:
    • • Has created at least one banner.
      • Has logged into the site within the past 3 months
      • Has had at least 10 clicks across all of their banners in the past month.
• jessosorio's Immediate Plans
  • Make a priority list
    • Eli and Jessica
    • https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1aMqFZNMJDdhLp1cYp7mJtvMbSmzVUMq_B2CDIjQ17cc/edit#heading=h.7h4buyt3zn5
  • Collect stats to backup priorities
  • Talk with leadership about the end of the year goal
• Why do people become Affiliates?
  • People who love Mozilla
    • Being recognized for their love
  • What incentives can we create?
    • Incentives beyond just simple rewards for clicks/downloads?

Outstanding Tasks

• None

Action Items

• Foufy to file bug with creative for missing previews
• Osmose to work on fraudulent clicks
• Osmose to merge and push public dashboard
• jessosorio and eli to work on priority list of tasks

PTO / Work Weeks / Other Important Dates

• mbrandt - July 28 - Aug 1 in MV for QA workweek

Handy Links

Wiki https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Affiliates