User:Mevans/CommunityBrainstormNotesJul22

Community Brainstorm notes Jul 22, 2010

• Attendees
  • Matt Evans
  • Marcia Knous
  • Tomcat
• Historically hired people from the community but never replaced them
• Marcia: interested in events that bring in new people
  • expose new people to Mozilla
  • teach them how to get involved
  • groom people to be ambassadors
    • for their region
    • to carry the torch for us (Mozilla and Mozilla QA)
    • Should speak the local language
  • Similar to drumbeat project
    • DB is more about open web
    • but somewhat same objective
    • can we leverage DB and open web for QA?
• Tomcat
  • Big community with big market share
  • Make it easy
  • Make it clear
  • Clarify what we need
  • Needs to have meaningful value to volunteers
  • Why do people volunteer their time and effort?
  • Stories about why Tomcat got involved with the project (mozilla)
    • fascinated and wanted to learn how
    • we did open source project management