Contribute/IT

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?

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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?