Grow/Meeting 06 28 12

Meeting Details

Note: The video and audio dial-in information has changed from previous meetings.

• Meeting time: Thursday, June 28 at 10 AM Pacific / 17:00 UTC (times around the world)
• Video: David Boswell's vidyo room (use this link for guest access)
• Audio: If video doesn't work, call +1 800 707 2533, pin 369, conf 9634#
• Room: Get to da Choppa in Mountain View 3rd floor
• Back channel: irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozillians

Agenda

• Introductions

• Please feel free to take notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/grow-mozilla-notes-06-28-12

• http://arewegrowingyet.com is now open -- a dashboard of all contribution inquires coming from Get Involved page

• Spotlighting local Mozilla communities
  • Vineel's video from 2010 Summit has gotten a refresh and has been added to our YouTube channel
  • Gen creating a new background for the Indonesian Firefox download page bug 766851) using photos of Indonesian community members (see mockup)
  • Other ideas?

• Brazil community update
  • Coordinating community outreach and building.
  • FISL

• Creating community building case studies
  • Drafted a list of potential case studies at https://yummy.etherpad.mozilla.org/community-building-case-studies
  • Which of these seem most important? Is there anything missing?

• Josh Matthews What Can I Do For Mozilla? tool

• Update on localizing the Get Involved page (bug 743746)
  • Pilot pages on dev
    • https://www-dev.allizom.org/b/es-ES/contribute/
    • https://www-dev.allizom.org/b/hr/contribute/
    • https://www-dev.allizom.org/b/pt-BR/contribute/
  • Basic workflow of EN and non-EN versions of page

Other items if there's time

• Michelle's experience with support inquiries from Get Involved page

• Update on the Favorite Add-ons contest (Amy Tsay)

• Report back: Creating a contributor strategy for MozSpaces

• Report back: Next steps for video footage from Summit

• Report back: Town halls and giving contributors more of a voice

• Question: How do you help people who just want to be assigned a task?

• Question: How can we help events be more effective at bringing in contributors?

• Question: How do you balance doing something yourself vs. helping someone do something?

• Question: How can we get contributors involved in our web projects?

• Question: How do you not lose track of people just starting to get involved?

• Question: How do people deal with negative feedback and stop energy?

• Feel free to add more questions or other agenda items...