Contribute/Recruiting

Steward

Julie Deroche Please note that this plan is mainly for College Recruiting

Identify Community

Q: Can you identify all of the contributors on your team (both paid-staff and volunteer-staff)?

A: At this point, we don't have contributors in Recruiting, but we're looking at increasing our volunteer base for Capstone projects and also providing referrals for the Mozilla Project. People who could contribute and - interview process

Suggestion: Use the mozillians.org contributor directory to help. Communicate through your team's channels and encourage people to sign up and group themselves with a common team tag. If you assign a group tag to all contributors on your project, the Mozillians dashboard will track the size of that group and will also allow you to easily export the contact information for group members. You can export these contacts to ensure all your contributors are signed up.

Define Contribution Opportunities

Q: Can you point someone interested in contributing to your project to a list of available contribution opportunities?

A: The opportunities will be seasonal, mostly happening between September and March, with a much stronger need in the Fall.

We would love contributors to help hosting workshops, hold tech talks at universities, act as a mentor for capstone projects, GSoC (Mozilla based GSoC projects), and attend career fairs with us.

Attend conferences + interview -

Suggestion: Look at what your team's needs are and what gaps you have in staffing to come up with a list of contribution opportunities. Capture those on a wiki page, in bugs, as role descriptions in Jobvite or whatever makes sense for your community.

Map Contribution Paths

Q: Are there clearly understood steps someone can follow to go from knowing nothing about your project to successfully contributing?

A: Here are the steps:

1) Go to College Recruiting wiki page to find out the project descriptions;

2) Sign up through the form

3) Someone from college recruiting will reach out to you if you are qualified.

4) Enroll into the contributor system

5) Have monthly meeting on summaries and action plans

Suggestion: In addition to just documenting these steps, look for a simple 5-minute task that someone can take to get started (for example, signing up for Bugzilla if they are interested in coding) and also figure out where in the process you can add a mentor to help people.

Establish Goals and Metrics

Q: Can you measure participation or contributors today? If so, what metrics can you track? What goal or metric would you like to achieve for Q1? Alternatively, what metrics would you like to get in place for Q1?

A: Participation is only measured internally at this point, and we look at who in the organization supports our various events.

A: College Recruiting has two main goals to involve the contributor community:

1) Define great contributor mentor for Capstone project
2) Engage contributors to represent Mozilla at career fairs or college events

Suggestion: Write down what you think would be helpful to track even if it isn't possible to get that data today. We'll work on implementing dashboards when we know what data we want.