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== What is a contributor? == | == What is a contributor? == | ||
For anyone reading this document who is not as close to | For anyone reading this document who is not as close to Mozilla terminology, ‘Contributor’ is the name given to people who go ‘above and beyond’ in the actions they take to support Mozilla. These are the people who make the Mozilla community what it is. Contribution is not a single thing, and there are infinite levels of possible ways to contribute to Mozilla, but for the sake of metrics, we’re going to count the number of people who take one of an agreed list of actions. | ||
In metrics terms, we are treating contribution as a threshold people can pass, though in practice we know it is much more complex than this. | In metrics terms, we are treating contribution as a threshold people can pass, though in practice we know it is much more complex than this. We believe that counting at this threshold is the most useful metric for us to work with to focus our efforts to build the community. | ||
For some background on the label ‘Contributor’ and other Mozilla terminology see these blog posts: | For some background on the label ‘Contributor’ and other Mozilla terminology see these blog posts: | ||
* http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/who-is-in-the-mozilla-community/ | * http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/who-is-in-the-mozilla-community/ | ||
* http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/what-does-mozillian-mean/ | * http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/what-does-mozillian-mean/ | ||
For this Mozilla Foundation specific dashboard, our Contributor criteria is aligned with the Active Contributor and Core Contributor levels of engagement in David Boswell's blog posts. We are not sub-dividing types of contribution in the same way. | |||
See the "sniff-test" later in this document for specific criteria. | |||
== Why do we need a contributor dashboard? == | == Why do we need a contributor dashboard? == | ||