Contribute/Lifecycle

Need intro (link to Contribute/Pilots as part of intro to show how we identified what the effective things are.)

Starting

• Problem: Your project doesn't have volunteers yet and you're interested in building a community around what you're doing.

• Who: Your project doesn't have volunteers yet and you're interested in building a community around what you're doing.

• What: A checklist of things to be thinking/doing when you're here (watch this workshop video, fill out this template, etc).

• How: See how other people have approached this: David S from Firefox OS engineering, person interested in forming a local community in Australia, etc.

• Checklist:
  • Read stories from existing Mozillians about how they first got involved with the project as volunteers
  • Watch the Designing for participation workshop video (soon to be reshot into a more watchable series of short videos)
  • Join the Grow Mozilla call and introduce yourself and meet other people involved with bringing people in to their projects.

Learning

• Problem:
  • You have connected with some volunteers and you're interested in learning about how to build on what's working so more people can join.
  • Volunteers are coming to you and you are not sure how to mobilize them effectively

• Who:
  • You're in charge of community management/engagement for your group.
  • You're the person volunteers always seem to come to.

• What: A checklist of things to be thinking/doing when you're here (watch this workshop video, etc).

• How: See how other people have approached this: Ben S from WebProd, etc.

• Checklist:
  • Read Margaret's great blog post about increasing participation on the Firefox for Android team that has 5 helpful tips in it
  • Check out the recently awarded Mozilla badges to get an idea of how some teams are recognizing contributors.
  • Watch a couple of these videos that have been created by community builders for people interested in community building.

Scaling

• Who: You have volunteers involved in your project and you'd like to turn up the dial on participation.

• What: A checklist of things to be thinking/doing when you're here (watch this workshop video, etc).

• How: See how other people have approached this. Reach out to the Community Building team and ask if they can put you in touch with some people doing similar work to yours.

• Checklist:
  • Create a contribution dashboard to give you insight about where you can improve the experience for volunteers
  • Contact the Open Badges team and start a discussion about creating badges for your contributors
  • Get involved in a community building working group to help shape the infrastructure for participation at Mozilla

Sustaining

• Who: You have a healthy and active community and you're interested in keeping that momentum and retaining your key contributors.

• What: A checklist of things to be thinking/doing when you're here (watch this workshop video, etc).

• How: See how other people have approached this: Rosana and Madalina from SUMO, etc.

• Checklist:
  • Module ownership / responsibility