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==Action Items==
==Action Items==
==Notes==
Video:
-> Turn Key; templates
-> creative?
-> eye catching?
-> non monatone announcer guy
-> QA/localization/PR/Dev  Mozilla Festival - Drumbeat; similar to mozcamp or summit, new media; night challenge
-> buzz around tech that we're involved with
-> training them; buzz, new contributors
-> larger one on one
-> african/middle east focus?  EU focus?
Mozilla changed carriers?
-> 800
test day: survey, how they hear about us, how effective is the video?
very explicit in getting involved
needed done rather than what to do
reaching versus what
what is the problem?
hard to know
what do we want a contributor to do
can grow into crit smash
How do I engage people/community?
- Personal blog
- blog
- product meeting
- planning meeting
- experiment; security
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla.org/Contribute/Best_Practices
Release Engineering ;
LDAP
QA
when a code lands and then gets fixed, it becomes public.  Don't want to give attackers how to exploit it.
nominated and vouched for.
web page what talks about security
public channel #security
protect users from being exploited
learning resource
access to bugs, being able to see code
having some kind of followups to fix the bugs.
blog posting when there's a bug fix.  review bugs, brief description of the issue.
rss subscribe to the feed.
advisory (sent out 6)
- recent blog post on people quitting mozilla
- her goals are to communicate direction of mozilla
- forum
- gecko
- conversation with community leads; not just regional leaders, but functional leads, ideally we invite people with influence/reach, wants intimate, candid conversations
- have a list of people : people don't feel like their opinions/thoughts are heard.  forum for leadership.  Mozcamp Asia, Mozcamp Europe followup
There's bound to be attrition; can't change everyone's opinion
- how can we improve
- survey; asa was the straw that broke the camels back?  harsh?  people get tired of being mistreated?  saying things the right way?
it is harder to have your voice heard. 
- build it with us.  say the roles; communicating what we do
- document well with what they are doing and public
- actively seek, ask for feedback; dilute the communication at the end
- being transparent at what we're doing
- give easy channels
- being part of the process
- bidirectional communication
- interactive channels
- direction of our organization
- rapid release cycle; get on board, get off board?
- well defined channels ; soliciting input in a way that makes sense
- for what we need and what we don't need
- feedback fatigue
- how do you go better, how do you communicate better
- time for free.  communication is necessary
- communicate better
- posting things to planet, vague; we could be doing -> targeting the communication for feedback for localizations.  Target people.
getting feedback specific things.
works when people are smaller group, but now that we're bigger, we have to change how we do things
business is different in different country
several contributors have mentioned some comments; the power of decision has an impact on morality.
How to pick a bug, how to contribute, personalities ->
low hanging fruit?  point them based on personalities
streamline -> personalize tasks by personality?
profiling app?  quiz and drill down -> contact info
reduce the feeling of being ignored for long time contributors
vs new contributors
community with a company in it rather than company with community around it
What are they passionate about, where do they want to contribute
->
don't want to be perceived as noise
->

Revision as of 22:45, 18 August 2011

Meeting Details

  • Meeting time: Thursday, September 1 at 10 AM PDT
  • Audio: 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 634
  • Video:
  • Back channel: irc.mozilla.org#mozillians

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Report back: Town halls and giving contributors more of a voice
  • Report back: Are more people coming to test days because of new QA video?
  • 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?
  • Question: What communication tools are people finding useful right now? What do people think of Yammer in particular?
  • Feel free to add more questions or other agenda items...

Action Items