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The Contributor Stewards program is a scalable way to bring in new people to all areas of the Mozilla community by having members of different teams be responsible for driving contributor growth for each project area. There are three parts to the program:

  • Select someone on your team to be a steward responsible for helping contributors get involved in your activities.
  • Add contributor growth and health targets to your quarterly goals.

Teams that make this investment in contributor recruiting will become more effective at bringing people into their project and will be able to accomplish more as their team grows.

Anyone interested in community building would make a great Steward. We expect that Stewards will spend up to 5 hours a week on activities related to this role. This also doesn't need to be a long-term commitment and it is fine to have different people on a team rotate through this role.

See the Steward Program slides from the September 2011 All Hands for more details.

Areas

Functional Areas

Area Steward
Accessibility David Bolter
Coding Dietrich Ayala, Kyle Huey, Brian Bondy and Josh Matthews
Developer Documentation Janet Swisher
Engineering Program Management Lawrence Mandel
Grants Geoffrey MacDougall
Graphics Benoit Jacob, Benoit Girard
Labs Desigan (Dees) Chinniah and Havi Hoffman
Localization Zbigniew Braniecki (Gandalf)
Market Insights Margaret Schroeder
Mobile Lucas Rocha
Privacy Stacy Martin
Product Marketing Gregory Jost
Public Relations Shannon Prior
Research and B2G Vivien Nicolas
Support Michelle Luna and Michael Verdi
Systems Administration Matthew Zeier and Corey Shields
Thunderbird Ludovic Hirlimann, Roland Tanglao and Jennifer Zickerman
Tools and Automation Clint Talbert and Lukas Blakk
Quality Assurance Anthony Hughes, Marcia Knous, Juan Becerra and Naoki Hirata
User Engagement Chelsea Novak and Jessilyn Davis
User Research Diane Loviglio
Web Development Christie Koehler, Andy McKay, Rob Helmer, Dave Dash, Tim Watts, Les Orchard and Luke Crouch
WebFWD Diane Bisgeier
UX Alex Limi

Geographic Areas

Area Steward
Berlin William Quiviger and Michelle Thorne
Brazil Reuben Morais
Minneapolis/St. Paul Scott Johnson
The Netherlands Ludovic Hirlimann
Portland Christie Koehler
Toronto Armen Zambrano Gasparnian
Vancouver Karen Esterly and Andy McKay
San Francisco Lukas Blakk

Activities

Each team has unique needs that will require creating specific plans for improvement, but there are some general activities that apply to most project areas, such as:

  • Assisting with the Contributor Life Cycle Audit
  • Helping get contributors signed up to the phonebook

Resources

Contributor Channels

There are a number of channels you can use to get information out to existing and potential contributors about how to get involved in your project:

If you have any questions about any of these or would you to make use of them, let us know.

Peer Support

One of the best ways to learn more about Mozilla and get help is to talk with other people in the community. There are many ways to do this, but the following options are great forums for discussions about helping people get involved in the project.

  • Contribute Group: a group that meets every other Thursday at 10 pacific to discuss issues related to helping people get involved in Mozilla.
  • Community events: there are many Mozilla events run by volunteers all around the world and they can be very energizing experiences if you haven't been to one before. For example, read Matthew Zeier's post about an amazing experience he had attending community events in Argentina.
  • Contributor Stories: reading about how someone got involved or how someone helped bring a new contributor into the community can give you ideas about methods that have worked (or not worked) in the past.

Documentation

The following 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.

Skill Development

We are currently looking into what sort of community building skills we could help people develop. Let us know what we could add that would be useful.

Special Interest Groups

The Mozilla Reps (ReMo) program aims to empower and support volunteer Mozillians who want to become official representatives of Mozilla. Tapping into this group of people can be a great way to spread the word about contribution opportunities for your project and to get more people involved.

Local Groups

There may be groups near you that aren't necessarily related to Mozilla, but can be good places to go to meet others interested in community building or who have an interest in Mozilla's mission. If you know of one of these groups, add it to this list.

Web Tools

Community building online would not be possible without tools to help with the process. The community is full of a number of tools, but there has been a lack of some key pieces of volunteer management infrastructure that the Contributor Engagement team is now putting in place. Learn more about what's coming:

Communication

Instead of going with yet another mailing list for discussions among Stewards, let's try a more social option and see if that works.

If you have thoughts (positive or negative) about going with Yammer, either let us know on that forum or on the Mozillians forum if you just don't want to sign up on Yammer, or can't for some reason.

To Do

  • Add link to phonebook profiles for each Steward when phonebook goes live.
  • Add advice/best-practices in reaching out to local communities and events like this VanCX.
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