Grow mozilla draft
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The Grow Mozilla initiative adds more casual, active and core contributors to all areas of the Mozilla project.
All teams across Mozilla can tap into programs, channels and tools provided by the Contributor Engagement and People teams to create strategies for successfully finding and working with contributors.
Contributor Progression
Potential Contributors
Staff and volunteer experts from different functioanl and regional areas craft community building strategies that are used to match potential contributors to opportunities. Potential contributors are reached through online channels (such as Get Involved pages) and offline channels (eg, events organized by Mozilla Reps) using various tools (such as Events Manager). Each team sets community health and growth targets to measure and optimize the effectiveness of converting people into casual and active contributors.
Casual & Active Contributors
After being matched to a volunteer opportunity, casual and active contributors offer their time and skill to teams to help them advance Mozilla's mission. Contributor tools (such as Phonebook) help paid and volunteer staff communicate and work together. These contributors can also use their experience to inform community building strategies (such as working with Stewards) and to recruit and mentor new volunteers (such as joining the Mozilla Reps program).
Core Contributors
As volunteers take on an ownership role (such as being a Module Owner) and deepen their involvement, they mature and become core contributors. These volunteers are peers with all Mozilla employees who are also core contributors through their ownership of defined roles in the organization. We are also working to create an Advisors program, an effort to identify Mozillians with unique insight, that would give core contributors the opportunity to share their experience at all levels of Mozilla.
Programs
The programs that support Grow Mozilla include:
- Mozilla Advisors (coming soon)
Channels
Online
Available online channels for getting information out to existing and potential contributors about how to get involved in your project include:
- Get Involved pages: over 500,000 visitors a month
- Want to help? form: over 2,000 inquiries a month
- Mozilla Careers site over ??? visitors a month
- about:mozilla newsletter: over 6,000 subscribers
- Student Reps newsletter: over 2,000 subscribers
- Mozilla Reps Mailing List: over 300 subscribers
- Mozillians YouTube channel: over 70 subscribers (just starting to grow this channel)
Offline
Information about events and relevant links...
Tools and Platforms
The community is full of a number of tools, but there has been a lack of key pieces of volunteer management infrastructure that the Contributor Engagement team is putting in place, including:
- Contributor Dashboards
- Contributor Directory dashboard (available through LDAP only now, will be public soon)
Meetings
Contribute Group Meeting
- Meeting time: Every other Thursday at 10 AM PDT
- Dial-in information: 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 634
- Back channel: irc.mozilla.org#mozillians
- Agenda
- Follow the Mozillians forum for information about upcoming meetings