Webmaker/Get Involved

Contributors

WEBMAKER CONTRIBUTORS do three things: TEACH, BUILD and ORGANIZE

Teaching

P1

• Teaching. Teach web literacy with our stuff. In classrooms, informal spaces and at events.

P2

• Assessment. Review and critique learners' and mentors' work (e.g., to review and issue Webmaker badges)
• Curation. Gather resources that help others learn and teach the web. Organize community-contributed content.
• Support. Help with documentation and Webmaker product support.
• Advocacy. Advance web literacy. Tell the story. Recruit more contributors.

METRICS

• # of people issued Webmaker mentor badges
• + other good ways to measure teaching?
  • Key design challenge: other ways to fully measure teaching
  • see notes and feedback from Management Team here

Building

P1

• Content. Create curriculum and content for Web Literacy Map. Teaching kits, activities and resources.
• Code. Submit patches to Webmaker tools. Experiment in new areas like Appmaker.
• Localization. Remix, translate and localize content and tools.

P2

• QA and User Testing. Ensure the quality and diversity of Webmaker offerings. Participate in live and asynchronous testing.
• MakeAPI. Integrate with and build on top of the MakeAPI.

METRICS

• # of content contributors. Users who tag items using web literacy map on webmaker.org.
• # of patch submitters. Users who submit a patch (not just file a bug) on Bugzilla or Git Hub.
• # of localizers. Users who make a significant contribution to localizing through Transifex.

Organizing

P1

• Events. Host an aligned event (for Maker Party or Hive) or session (MozFest, DML, etc.)
• Local networks. Grow existing Hive networks and establish new ones.

P2

• Campaigns. Participate in and partner with Maker Party. Organize local campaigns and outreach.
• Training. Train other trainers, teachers, organizers and mentors.
• Partnerships. 'Bulk recruiting' contributors via like minded orgs and networks.

METRICS

• # of event hosts on webmaker.org
  • Note: to be effective, this metric will rely on data coming in from broader networks, communities and partners

Supporters

• coming soon

Users

• coming soon

More detail

More detail on these Engagement Ladder ACTIONS, RESPONSES and INCENTIVES are in this spreadsheet.

Building a contribution dashboard

• MakerMind will gather this contribution data and output it to a dashboard

Target Audience

Who is our community?

• Teachers. Looking for creative and rigorous ways to teach tech, digital skills, and web literacy.
• Informal Educators. Hive members and Hive-like organizations.
• Mozillians. MozReps. And other techies who want to share their skills, but don't necessarily have teaching experience.
• Learners. The people those people are serving.

Our community members seek to:

• level up their web literacy
• build and share tools for teaching
• gain peers and networks of practice
• participate in coordinated actions
• identify with a movement that's globally leveraged and locally contextualized

Below is a graph of our “lead users”. These are the types of community members who are most invested in the project. The graph is merely illustrative, not exhaustive. Its purpose is to sample the motivations of our community members and visualize how those compare to one another.