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What are the steps someone can take to get involved in your project and to learn enough to be able to start scratching their own itch? | |||
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==Brainstorming for entry points== | |||
Challenge: There are things 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? | |||
* [http://www.mozilla.org/community/mirroring.html Set up a mirror] -- may only apply to institutions that have spare servers and bandwidth | * [http://www.mozilla.org/community/mirroring.html Set up a mirror] -- may only apply to institutions that have spare servers and bandwidth | ||
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=Goals= | =Goals= | ||
What goals does your team have for bringing in new contributors to your project area? | |||
=Metrics= | =Metrics= | ||
What data is available to measure if we're meeting | What data is available to measure if we're meeting your goals? | ||
* Number of mirrors? | * Number of mirrors? | ||
* Patches to Air Mozilla? | * Patches to Air Mozilla? | ||
Revision as of 22:35, 20 September 2011
Steward
Matthew Zeier
Contribution Paths
What are the steps someone can take to get involved in your project and to learn enough to be able to start scratching their own itch?
1.
2.
3.
4. Scratch your own itch
Brainstorming for entry points
Challenge: There are things 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?
- Set up a mirror -- may only apply to institutions that have spare servers and bandwidth
- Desktop support for Mozilla Spaces (maybe also at college computer labs, libraries, etc?)
- Combine entry points with Release Engineering if there's reasonable overlap?
- Help with Air Mozilla
- Look at what other open source projects are doing, eg Apache's Infrastructure team
Goals
What goals does your team have for bringing in new contributors to your project area?
Metrics
What data is available to measure if we're meeting your goals?
- Number of mirrors?
- Patches to Air Mozilla?