Contribute/Best Practices

This page documents best practices about how to help new people get involved with Mozilla.

Recognition

Consider recognizing someone's contribution--this can be something simple but is probably the most effective way to keep people interested in giving their time to the project.

Examples:

• List someone in the Friends of the Tree section in the WeeklyUpdates
• Comment in a fixed bug to say thanks
• Nominate someone to be a module owner or peer
• Create a new role in your project (eg, if someone likes to help new people get started, make them the Onboarding Lead)
• Badges

Incentives

Consider providing something to contributors to thank them for something they've done or to get them excited about an upcoming event or activity.

Examples:

• Security Bug Bounty
• Design Challenges
• Swag at events