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Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Thursday, March 22 at 10 AM Pacific (times around the world)
• Audio: 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 634
• Room: ORLY in Mountain View 3rd floor (note this is a room change from earlier meetings)
• Back channel: irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozillians

Agenda

• Introductions

• Brownbag on Monday, March 26 at 2 pacific on Air Mozilla: Bringing in volunteers to achieve your crazy and ambitious goals

• Steward satisfaction survey: please fill out to help us make the services Contributor Engagement offers more useful for you

• Mitchell's closing keynote video from MozCamp in Berlin has great information about community building

• Contributor Audit (data in review, next steps)

• Community building action plan update:
  • Plans started for Accessibility, Coding, Support, QA, Webdev, Marketing
  • If you'd like help getting a plan started for your team, David is happy to help
  • Possible confusion with Contribute Group term. Does it make sense to rename this general meeting? Proposed name: 'Grow Mozilla meeting' to fit with Grow Mozilla strategic goal

• Dashboards discussion
  • Experimenting with conversion tracking on Get Involved dashboard
  • For example, % of people interested in contributing to Support who made a contribution (match support inquiry from the Get Involved form with SUMO forum activity)
  • Would it be helpful to know this information for your team?
  • What would a conversion look like for your team?

• Governance threads
  • Are there any community building take-aways from recent governance discussions?

• Recruiting volunteers at events (standing item)
  • MozCamp Latin America (April 20-22)
  • Proposed "Mozilla Day" recruitment day in Minneapolis (cf: @glind). Leave-behinds, schwag, other help and ideas welcome.

Other items if there's time

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

• 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

• Report back: Casey on his experience contributing to webdev

• 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...

Action Items

• All Stewards please fill out satisfaction survey

• Contact David if you are interested in getting conversion tracking going for your functional area

• Marcia to investigate creating a QA event section in QA community building plan that can be used as case study for other teams to use