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Guide on helping brand new contributors find first tasks and match their skills/interests to projects/teams. | Guide on helping brand new contributors find first tasks and match their skills/interests to projects/teams. | ||
'' | ==Vocabulary== | ||
* Contribution area: An area of the Mozilla project open to contribution | |||
* Pathway: A set of steps for building skills and responsibility in a contribution area. | |||
* Guide: A person who helps a potential contributor find the contribution area that's right for them and start them along that area's pathway | |||
* Manual: A document which a Guide uses to help match a contributor up with a contribution area | |||
* Choose Your Own Adventure: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure A set of books in which the reader is the protagonist.] | |||
==Guides== | |||
* Need to know the contribution areas | |||
* Need to know the pathway entry points for each contribution area | |||
* Need to be know how to use the Manual as a tool | |||
* Need training? | |||
==Manual== | |||
* Lists contribution areas, and for each... | |||
** Keywords | |||
** Skills | |||
** Contacts | |||
** Pathway entry points | |||
** Passive communication channels | |||
** Inter/active communication channels | |||
* Model user types with "I want to..." | |||
** "I want to write code in <language>." | |||
** "I want to find a way to help but I don't know what and I have no skills." | |||
** "I want to add a feature to Firefox." | |||
* How to turn ambiguity into contributions | |||
** "I want to know when Firefox OS is available in my country." | |||
** "I want to get some stickers to give out at my school." | |||
** "I use Chrome and I think Firefox tabs look like poop." | |||
==Project== | |||
* Supports CBT Pathways goal #3 - Support brand new contributors and the projects they join by building a community of mentors and a system to support them. | |||
* Stakeholders/dependencies | |||
** Contribution area experts | |||
** Bedrock team - and decisions about Get Involved page. | |||
==Roadmap== | ==Roadmap== | ||
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* End of 2014 | * End of 2014 | ||
** Documentation for the guides for 2-3 starter tasks for each of the eight areas of Get Involved. | ** Documentation for the guides for 2-3 starter tasks for each of the eight areas of Get Involved. | ||
* End of 2015 | |||
** Human guides have been replaced by a bot written in Inform7 that converses with contributors and shepherds them into the right contribution area pathway. | |||
Revision as of 21:43, 21 August 2014
TL;DR
Guide on helping brand new contributors find first tasks and match their skills/interests to projects/teams.
Vocabulary
- Contribution area: An area of the Mozilla project open to contribution
- Pathway: A set of steps for building skills and responsibility in a contribution area.
- Guide: A person who helps a potential contributor find the contribution area that's right for them and start them along that area's pathway
- Manual: A document which a Guide uses to help match a contributor up with a contribution area
- Choose Your Own Adventure: A set of books in which the reader is the protagonist.
Guides
- Need to know the contribution areas
- Need to know the pathway entry points for each contribution area
- Need to be know how to use the Manual as a tool
- Need training?
Manual
- Lists contribution areas, and for each...
- Keywords
- Skills
- Contacts
- Pathway entry points
- Passive communication channels
- Inter/active communication channels
- Model user types with "I want to..."
- "I want to write code in <language>."
- "I want to find a way to help but I don't know what and I have no skills."
- "I want to add a feature to Firefox."
- How to turn ambiguity into contributions
- "I want to know when Firefox OS is available in my country."
- "I want to get some stickers to give out at my school."
- "I use Chrome and I think Firefox tabs look like poop."
Project
- Supports CBT Pathways goal #3 - Support brand new contributors and the projects they join by building a community of mentors and a system to support them.
- Stakeholders/dependencies
- Contribution area experts
- Bedrock team - and decisions about Get Involved page.
Roadmap
- Thursday, August 21, 2014
- This wiki page.
- Outline of what we want in the wiki.
- Definition of what it means to be a helper/guide.
- End Q3
- Reach out to all contribution areas
- Fully document one contribution area
- End Q4
- Program description is complete
- All contribution areas are documented
- 1-2 first contributions per "bucket" are well documented
- How to add more areas and tasks
- End of 2014
- Documentation for the guides for 2-3 starter tasks for each of the eight areas of Get Involved.
- End of 2015
- Human guides have been replaced by a bot written in Inform7 that converses with contributors and shepherds them into the right contribution area pathway.