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Q: Can you identify all of the contributors on your team (both paid-staff and volunteer-staff)? | Q: Can you identify all of the contributors on your team (both paid-staff and volunteer-staff)? | ||
A: Directly, there's just me. Mark - the Executive Director - spends half his time on development (in a | A: Directly, there's just me. Mark - the Executive Director - spends half his time on development (in a bizdev sense), of course. And my colleague Ben Simon leads broad-based engagement/fundraising through the Join Mozilla program. | ||
Suggestion: Use the [http://www.mozillians.org mozillians.org contributor directory] to help. Communicate through your team's channels and encourage people to sign up and group themselves with a common team tag. | Suggestion: Use the [http://www.mozillians.org mozillians.org contributor directory] to help. Communicate through your team's channels and encourage people to sign up and group themselves with a common team tag. | ||
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Q: Are there clearly understood steps someone can follow to go from knowing nothing about your project to successfully contributing? | Q: Are there clearly understood steps someone can follow to go from knowing nothing about your project to successfully contributing? | ||
A: Not yet. What I'm hoping to do is find a way to (i) have contributors identify partnership / grants / funding opportunities for Mozilla, (ii) have other contributors share insights into those opportunities, and (iii) have other contributors offer introductions from their professional networks to people working within the | A: Not yet. What I'm hoping to do is find a way to (i) have contributors identify partnership / grants / funding opportunities for Mozilla, (ii) have other contributors share insights into those opportunities, and (iii) have other contributors offer introductions from their professional networks to people working within the organizations with which we'd like to partner. Basically, help the Mozilla community build our institutional partnerships the same way they help build our software. | ||
Ideas for 5-minute tasks would be (i) submitting / e-mailing new funding opportunities to us, (ii) providing comments or feedback to help us prioritize, and (iii) making an introduction on our behalf to someone they know who has connections to the potential partner organization. | |||
Suggestion: In addition to just documenting these steps, look for a simple 5-minute task that someone can take to get started (for example, signing up for Bugzilla if they are interested in coding) and also figure out where in the process you can add a mentor to help people. | Suggestion: In addition to just documenting these steps, look for a simple 5-minute task that someone can take to get started (for example, signing up for Bugzilla if they are interested in coding) and also figure out where in the process you can add a mentor to help people. | ||
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Q: What goals does your team have for bringing in new contributors and how can you measure if you are successful? | Q: What goals does your team have for bringing in new contributors and how can you measure if you are successful? | ||
A: There's only one metric | A: There's really only one metric: the obvious one. Where the conversation started is an indicator of whether this part of the strategy was successful. | ||
Suggestion: Write down what you think would be helpful to track even if it isn't possible to get that data today. We'll work on implementing dashboards when we know what data we want. | Suggestion: Write down what you think would be helpful to track even if it isn't possible to get that data today. We'll work on implementing dashboards when we know what data we want. | ||