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A: Yes on paid staff. We can identify volunteers, but not in an easily accessible or meaningful way. We have a record of their names and email addresses but we don't know where they live, for example. Also, there isn't an easy way for them to contact each other. We are interested in doing a push to get them to sign up at Mozillians. | A: Yes on paid staff. We can identify volunteers, but not in an easily accessible or meaningful way. We have a record of their names and email addresses but we don't know where they live, for example. Also, there isn't an easy way for them to contact each other. We are interested in doing a push to get them to sign up at Mozillians. | ||
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. | Note: There are several different locations where add-on developers talk -- official AMO forum, mozillazine, mozdev and stack overflow. Haven't been previous efforts to reach out to channels other than the AMO forum. Can also reach out to [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Consulting companies in ecosystem] that build add-ons as a business. | ||
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. If you assign a group tag to all contributors on your project, the [https://metrics.mozilla.com/pentaho/content/pentaho-cdf-dd/Render?solution=metrics2&path=mozillians&file=mozillians.wcdf Mozillians dashboard] will track the size of that group and will also allow you to easily export the contact information for group members. You can export these contacts to ensure all your contributors are signed up. | |||
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[http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa&cs=9Kt9Vfw1&page=Job%20Description&j=oaO0VfwD Jobvite]<br> | [http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa&cs=9Kt9Vfw1&page=Job%20Description&j=oaO0VfwD Jobvite]<br> | ||
AMO blog | AMO blog | ||
Note: the audience for potential AMO editors is existing Mozillians who already have some experience with add-ons and community. For instance, the Jobvite posting brought in responses but none that were qualified since it was an audience of people not yet in the community. Focus should be on internal recruiting. | |||
Suggestion: Look at what your team's needs are and what gaps you have in staffing to come up with a list of contribution opportunities. Capture those on a wiki page, in bugs, as role descriptions in Jobvite or whatever makes sense for your community. | Suggestion: Look at what your team's needs are and what gaps you have in staffing to come up with a list of contribution opportunities. Capture those on a wiki page, in bugs, as role descriptions in Jobvite or whatever makes sense for your community. | ||
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Q: Can you measure participation or contributors today? If so, what metrics can you track? What goal or metric would you like to achieve for Q1? Alternatively, what metrics would you like to get in place for Q1? | Q: Can you measure participation or contributors today? If so, what metrics can you track? What goal or metric would you like to achieve for Q1? Alternatively, what metrics would you like to get in place for Q1? | ||
A: For editors, we are measuring success by the review queues. | A: For editors, we are measuring success by the review queues. There is an internal dashboard of this information available for editors only. | ||
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. | ||
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