Contribute

These Contribute wiki pages are a place for existing Mozillians to work together to help new contributors get involved with volunteer opportunities at Mozilla.

Please feel free to join the discussion about getting more people involved with Mozilla on the Mozillians forum, in one of the Contribute Groups or send comments or questions directly to David Boswell.

Groups

Contribute Groups are where people interested in community building get together and create and execute plans for bringing more volunteers into Mozilla. Please feel free to join one of these meetings or start a new group.

• Accessibility Contribute Group (every other Monday at 10 am pacific)
• Coding Contribute Group (every Wednesday at 1 pm pacific)
• Support Contribute Group (every other Thursday at 9:30 am pacific)
• QA Contribute Group (every other Wednesday at 4 pm pacific)
• Webdev Contribute Group (every other Monday at 1:30 pm pacific)

There is also a Grow Mozilla meeting focused on community building across all of Mozilla where ideas and best practices are shared among members of different teams. This sharing is essential to leverage the knowledge and work being done by the various Contribute Groups.

Stewards

Stewards are members of teams who are working with Contributor Engagement to create and execute a plan for bringing in volunteers to Mozilla.

Each team has unique needs that will require creating specific plans, but there are some general activities that apply to all areas. We recommend that all Stewards start with these initial steps:

• Step 1: Identify current community and get them in the mozillians.org contributor directory

• Step 2: Evaluate gaps in your staffing and add contributor growth targets to your goals

• Step 3: Define and scope contribution opportunities

• Step 4: Assess and map contribution paths

• Step 5: Establish metrics to measure health and to optimize paths

The section below has links to pages for each project area where these plans are being developed.

If you'd like to become a Steward or have a question for a Steward, please get in touch with us through one of the channels listed above or look for people with the Steward tag on their Mozillians profile (and be sure to add that to to your profile if you are a Steward).

Functional Areas

Area	Steward
Accessibility	David Bolter and Ken Saunders
Addons	Amy Tsay and Jeff Griffiths
Apps	Desigan (Dees) Chinniah and Joe Stagner
Automation	Clint Talbert, Lukas Blakk and Henrik Skupin
Business Development	Susan Chen, Mark Crandon and Ron Piovesan
Coding	Dietrich Ayala, Kyle Huey, Brian Bondy and Josh Matthews
Communications	Shannon Prior
Creative	Matej Novak and Lee Tom
Developer Documentation	Janet Swisher
Developer Tools	Paul Rouget and Christian Heilmann
Engineering Program Management	Lawrence Mandel
Finance	Maya Barrow, Alan Chang and Winnie Aoieong
Fundraising	Geoffrey MacDougall
Graphics	Benoit Jacob, Benoit Girard
Identity	Dan Mills and Christian Heilmann
Labs	Havi Hoffman and David Ascher
Legal	Jishnu Menon
Localization	Zbigniew Braniecki (Gandalf) and Jeff Beatty
Marketing	Gregory Jost, Chelsea Novak and Jessilyn Davis
Metrics	Gilbert FitzGerald
Mobile	Lucas Rocha and Erin Lancaster
Pancake	Stuart Parmenter
People	Dave Berz and Amie Tyrrel
Privacy	Stacy Martin
Quality Assurance	Anthony Hughes, Marcia Knous, Juan Becerra and Naoki Hirata
Research and B2G	Vivien Nicolas
Recruiting	Kimber Schlegelmilch & Vivien Jin
Security Assurance	Michael Coates
Security Engineering	Curtis Koenig
Services	Ally Naaktgeboren
Support	Michelle Luna, Michael Verdi and Rosana Ardila
Systems Administration	Justin Dow, Matthew Zeier and Corey Shields
Thunderbird	Ludovic Hirlimann, Roland Tanglao and Jennifer Zickerman
User Experience	Diane Loviglio and Alex Limi
Web Development	Christie Koehler, Andy McKay, Rob Helmer, Dave Dash, Tim Watts, Les Orchard, Mike Alexis, Anthony Ricaud and Luke Crouch
WebFWD	Diane Bisgeier

Geographic Areas

Mozilla Spaces

These stewards are based in the different Mozilla Spaces around the world.

Area	Steward
Auckland
Beijing
Berlin	William Quiviger and Michelle Thorne
London
Mountain View
Paris
San Francisco	Lukas Blakk
Taipei
Toronto
Vancouver	Karen Esterly and Andy McKay

Other Areas

These Stewards are focused on other cities and regions around the world.

Area	Steward
Asia (exc. China and Japan)	Gen Kanai
Balkans	Nikola Matosović
Brazil	Reuben Morais
Minneapolis/St. Paul	Scott Johnson
Munich	Carsten Book
The Netherlands	Ludovic Hirlimann
Portland	Christie Koehler

Guides and Documentation

The following guides and documentation has information and tips for how to build community around your project. There is a mix of Mozilla-specific and general open source community building material.

• Who is in the Mozilla community infographic

• Lexicon of Mozilla community terms

• Community Building Best Practices by various Mozillians

• How To Be A Mozillian; How To Work In Community (video) by Gerv Markham

• 'Winning For Mozilla' closing keynote at MozCamp Europe 2011 (video) by Mitchell Baker

• Mozilla Governance pages

• Community Management Presentation by Dave Eaves

• The Art of Community by Jono Bacon

• Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel

More Information

For more information about the Contribute Group, Stewards and strategies for growing Mozilla, take a look at these presentations.

• Contributor Lifecycle Audit presentation from January 2012: Slides, Video, Data

• Getting More Contributors Involved with Mozilla brown bag from November 2011: Slides and Video

• Stewards All Hands session from September 2011: Slides and Notes