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Workspace for a new Getting Involved page on www.mozilla.org.

Meetings

Next meeting in May or June on a Thursday at 10 pacific.

Meeting time: Thursdays at 11:00 pacific
Dial-in information: 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 7600
Back channel: irc.mozilla.org#siteplanning

Agenda:

Update from each person since last meeting (successes, challenges, etc)
What are people looking for help with?

Previous Meetings

Agenda and notes from April 8, 2010 meeting
No notes from December 9, 2009 and January 28, 2010 sessions
Agenda and notes from October 29, 2009 meeting
Agenda and notes from October 8, 2009 meeting

Page Text

Updates to the Get Involved page text are handled on the following wiki page. Please update that page to have the Get Involved page updated:

Mozilla.org/Contribute/Text

Canned Responses

To help answer any questions that come in through the contact form on the Get Involved page or through volunteer matching sites, we have a number of canned responses for different contribution areas.

Mozilla.org/Contribute/Canned_responses

Point People

The following people are available to answer inquiries for different project areas:

browser choice -- irina
support -- tmz and milos
l10n -- tomcat and alina
QA -- tomcat
coding -- milos
marketing -- mary and william
coding -- david and james
addons -- jorge
visual design -- forward to creative collective address (slater and tara)
docs -- forward to sheppy
other -- david

Note: some people are subscribed to the contribute list and others have asked that we forward inquiries directly to them (this is a manual process now but the form could be updated to do this automatically.

Point people are needed for some project areas:

general inquiries
mirror network
ui design
drumbeat

Referral Sites

We're using some volunteer referral sites to promote some specific community opportunities. Feel free to suggest other sites to use or other opportunities to post.

Contact form stats

Note: these stats are incomplete and don't cover everything for several reasons (for instance, several people don't reply to the mailing list). They do give some information though about how the contact form is being used on the Get Involved page.

September 2010

Starting: Aug 29 04:03:05

Ending: Sep 30 23:59:52

Total posts to the list: 572

339 contribute-form@mozilla.org,
167 david
49 tomcat
9 jorge
2 alina
1 mary

August 2010

Starting: Aug 01 04:02:20

Ending: Aug 31 23:58:03

Total posts to the list: 599

335 contribute
194 david
51 tomcat
12 jorge

July 2010

Starting: Jun 27 04:15:31

Ending: Jul 31 23:59:10

Total posts to the list: 665

410 contribute
111 david
52 milos
47 tomcat
22 mary
15 jorge
3 volunteermatch.org

June 2010

Starting: May 30 04:04:31

Ending: Jun 30 23:58:40

Total posts to the list: 732

481 contribute
135 david
55 mary
19 milos
15 tomcat
8 jorge
6 volunteermatch
5 alina

May 2010

Starting: May 02 04:05:08

Ending: May 31 23:58:46

Total posts to the list: 708

485 contribute
162 david
27 tomcat
17 jorge
7 alina
2 volunteermatch
1 volunteertoronto

April 2010

Starting: Mar 28 04:03:38

Ending: Apr 30 23:59:28

Total posts to the list: 721

428 contribute-form
172 david
61 tomcat
18 jorge
17 james
8 tmz
2 volunteermatch
2 stephend

March 2010

Starting: Feb 28 04:03:49

Ending: Mar 31 23:54:41

Total posts to the list: 812

511 contribute-form
183 david
39 tomcat
36 james
13 jorge
9 tmz
5 volunteermatch

Contribute page monthly page views: 56,511

February 2010

Starting: Jan 31 04:02:14

Ending: Feb 28 23:48:41

Total posts to the list: 380

222 contribute-form
90 david
21 tomcat
13 james
8 jorge
6 volunteermatch

Contribute page monthly page views: 41,641

January 2010

Starting: Jan 03 04:02:10

Ending: Jan 31 23:50:14

Total posts to the list: 843

487 contribute-form
201 david
84 tomcat
25 jorge
14 tmz
8 james
7 volunteermatch

Contribute page monthly page views: 123,905

Brainstorming

Form

Ideas for improving the get in touch form:

Add an opt-in for receiving future information about contributing

Set up an auto-response based on selected area of interest

Display easy ways to get involved below form after user selects an area of interest

Require input in comments field?

Check for well-formed email address input

Have inline error checking

Have a confirmation message

Compile stats with a counter that tracks how many emails have been sent from the form and how many of those have been sent with the various area of interest options.

Note: More information in bug 523403.

Ticker

We could use the RSS feed from the VolunteerMatch site that we've set up as a test. This could be expanded with opportunities from throughout the community. This area could also have hard-coded promos if we'd rather, or in addition, have 2 or 3 featured opportunities that get rotated on a regular basis.

We could also use a Bugzilla query as a feed -- perhaps the helpwanted keyword or something similar?

Tabbed Browsing

We could use the tabbed browser to present people several different ways to find what they're interested in.

By area of interest (localization, testing...)
By contributer description (localizer, tester...)
By level of involvement (beginner, advanced...)
By skills (fluent in multiple languages, interest in programming...)
By amount of time (a few minutes, a few hours...)
By some other way?

Search

The idea of search is good, but maybe the reality means we should consider something else -- what would this pull from? Even if we decided to build a database of opportunities how much effort would that take and is it even impossible since so much of this information is tacit and inside existing community member's heads?

Twitter

We could set up a Twitter account dedicated to Getting Involved opportunities. It could pull from any automated feeds and any manual updates we make to the page.

T-Shirts

We could make a t-shirt that focused on getting involved with the community.

Poster

Create an offline page that has information about the community and how to get involved that can be posted at events, schools, etc.

Mockups

Final Round

Second Round

First Round

Blog Posts

Getting New People Involved In The Community -- December 11, 2009
Getting Involved With Getting Involved -- November 11, 2009
A New Getting Involved Page -- October 28, 2009
A Recruiting Engine for the Mozilla Community -- October 6, 2009
The Getting Involved Redesign: Round 2.5 -- September 25, 2009
Getting Involved Redesign Round 2.5 -- September 24, 2009
Giving People Options on How to Get Involved -- September 15, 2009
Rethinking How To Get People Involved With Mozilla -- September 14, 2009
The Mozilla.org Redesign: The “Getting Involved” Page -- August 26th, 2009

Other Getting Involved Pages

There are many Getting Involved pages across the community -- some are focused on specific areas, such as Support, and some try to provide a guide to contributing to all areas of Mozilla.

Note: this list is likely not complete so feel free to add links to any other relevant Getting Involved pages.