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This wiki page is dedicated to participation mentors - community members that want to help and increase the number of participants involved in their projects.

Workshops

Here you can find workshops that should help designing your project of participation

• Designing for participation
• Identifying contributors

Dashboards

List of dashboard dedicated into the growth and health of the communities

• http://areweamillionyet.org/
• http://www.joshmatthews.net/mentorwatch/
• http://toolness.github.io/bugzilla-dashboard/#
• https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/MozillaWiki
• http://mentorship.mozillareps.org/
• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kpi/dashboard
• http://devs.mozillaindia.org/leaderboard/

Videos

Videos created by community leaders for community leaders

• Designing for Participation
• How to work with community
• How To Work With 3 Types of Mozilla Volunteers
• Tips for Mozilla community mentoring, from the pros
• Get Involved 2, interview with contributors
• Get Involved 3, tips for getting involved

Facilitate your own event

Instructions on how to facilitate your own event in a Mozilla office

Reading

The following links are a mix of Mozilla-specific and general open source community building material.

Lexicon

Mozilla Lexicon

General Reading

• Community Event Planning by Christie Koehler, Sherri Montgomery and Audrey Eschright
• The Art of Community by Jono Bacon
• Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel
• Effective mentoring programs by Dave Neary
• Diversity in practice: How the Boston Python User Group grew to 1700 people and over 15% women by Asheesh Laroia and Jessica McKellar
• Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design by Robert E. Kraut and Paul Resnick; available online as PDF draft chapters
• Volunteer Management Resource Center from idealist.org
• Collective Action Toolkit from frog
• How To Put Free Software Experience On Your Resumé
• Buzzing Communities: How to build bigger, better, more active online communities by Richard Millington.
• Building Web Reputation Systems by Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass.
• Cultivating Communities of Practice: A guide to managing knowledge by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder.
• The Online Community Guide, blog by Richard Millington.
• A Preliminary Study of the Effects of Barnstars on Wikipedia Editing; found that number of edits goes down after an editor gets a barnstar, but eventually recovers to the level before the barnstar.
• Understanding and Supporting the Choice of an Appropriate Task to Start With In Open Source Software Communities by Igor Steinmacher, Tayana Uchoa Conte, and Marco Aurelio Gerosa.