Contribute/Webdev/Group 07 29 13

Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Monday, July 29 at 10:30 AM Pacific
• 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#
• Back channel: #webdev

Agenda

• Action items from last meeting

• Manifesto reboot
  • Looking to code this with volunteers -- is this a chance for us to identify and recruit new webdev contributors?
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Manifesto/Potential_Changes
  • Draft schedule

• Contribution opportunities
  • How can we improve how we're getting contribution opportunities in front of contributors?
  • Improve wiki? Use Kanban? Pilot BraveNewTalent? Something else?
  • Can we run any optimization tests?

• Webdev hackathons
  • Luke to draft template
  • Next step will be to try it out and document how it went
  • Not something we should try to tie into Summit

• Swag
  • How do we want to send swag to contributors?

• Metrics
  • Webdev contribute dashboard is on Metric team's Q3 list
  • Additional automated badges will need to wait until we have better Metrics

• Building capacity
  • Ben to document capacity building effort to share with other teams
  • Webprod's community building kanban board

Placeholder

• Webdev Badges
  • New badge ideas:
    • Mentor badge
    • Partner badges (ie, someone who has contributing pull requests to both Mozilla and other open source projects, like Code for America, Wikipedia, etc)
  • Other badge topics
    • • Integrating badges into Webdev teams' workflow
      • Building out badges to be issued manually by Webdev team members (badges around mentoring, thanking, etc.)

• Reducing barriers for new contributors
  • Top priorities
    • How to contribute to a Mozilla web site screencast (Sancus)
    • Making contact and bug tracking information easier to find on sites (bug 766906) (Rik)
    • Firebug + Firediff for easy CSS hacking without needing to install site (Sancus)
  • Other ideas (need to prioritize)
    • Linking to the Github page template in footer of pages on Bedrock (Rik)
    • Improving documentation and clarifying how different sites have small but significant differences to be aware of
    • Reaching out to Petri team to see if they could help make it easier for front-end webdev contributors to access to a staging site

• Tulsa Webdev hack day
  • Looking for mentors to prepare contribution opportunities and be available online during event
  • Using this as a template for Reps to run other webdev hack days

• Creating a workflow for how to handle webdev inquiries
  • Documenting current workflow
  • Enhancing current process (follow back up with promising leads 2 weeks after first contact, recognizing volunteers with a public post or swag after finishing first mentored bug)

• Piggybacking on other contributor efforts
  • Coding pathway: How to make use of http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ and collaborate with Coding Stewards
  • Design pathway: Are there relevant CSS and web design contribution information to add to Design wiki page for design contributors?

Action Items

• David to schedule meeting with Open Badges team about future of badges.mozilla.org

• Luke to put together draft of a webdev hack-a-thon template from Code for America processes

• David to take notes on swag recognition best practices based on conversation at meeting

• Ben to look into Manifesto project to see how volunteers may fit