Contribute/Labs

Steward

Havi Hoffman and David Ascher

Identify Community

Q: Can you identify all of the contributors on your team (both paid-staff and volunteer-staff)?

A: No.

Less flippantly, Labs has been under massive change this year with many people shifting from an exploration role to a product development role w/ the Identity and Apps initiatives. This has impacted both paid staff and volunteers.

At this point, we are still in the process of rethinking what Labs is like, and until we do so, it's hard to know how we're going to grow contributors, although we know we need to.

Define Contribution Opportunities

Q: Can you point someone interested in contributing to your project to a list of available contribution opportunities?

A: No (see above)

Map Contribution Paths

Q: Are there clearly understood steps someone can follow to go from knowing nothing about your project to successfully contributing?

A: Not yet as a rule, although there are probably exceptions.

Establish Goals and Metrics

Q: Can you measure participation or contributors today? If so, what metrics can you track? What goal or metric would you like to achieve for Q1? Alternatively, what metrics would you like to get in place for Q1?

A:

Suggestion: Write down what you think would be helpful to track even if it isn't possible to get that data today. We'll work on implementing dashboards when we know what data we want.